From 13c269c19cd9b17481b49b27ed6546694cd2d613 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Matt T. Proud" <matt@soundcloud.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:49:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Include Daniel's ResponseWriter delegate type.

---
 contributor/responsewriter_delegator.go | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 contributor/responsewriter_delegator.go

diff --git a/contributor/responsewriter_delegator.go b/contributor/responsewriter_delegator.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..100036b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contributor/responsewriter_delegator.go
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/*
+Copyright (c) 2013, Matt T. Proud
+All rights reserved.
+
+Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in
+the LICENSE file.
+*/
+
+package contributor
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"strconv"
+)
+
+const (
+	unknownStatusCode = "unknown"
+)
+
+// ResponseWriterDelegator is a means of wrapping http.ResponseWriter to divine
+// the response code from a given answer, especially in systems where the
+// response is treated as a blackbox.
+type ResponseWriterDelegator struct {
+	http.ResponseWriter
+	Status *string
+}
+
+func (r ResponseWriterDelegator) WriteHeader(code int) {
+	*r.Status = strconv.Itoa(code)
+
+	r.ResponseWriter.WriteHeader(code)
+}
+
+func NewResponseWriterDelegator(delegate http.ResponseWriter) ResponseWriterDelegator {
+	defaultStatusCode := unknownStatusCode
+
+	return ResponseWriterDelegator{delegate, &defaultStatusCode}
+}