change settings middleware name and updating middleware template

scrapy/commands/startproject.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ TEMPLATES_TO_RENDER = (
     ('${project_name}', 'settings.py.tmpl'),
     ('${project_name}', 'items.py.tmpl'),
     ('${project_name}', 'pipelines.py.tmpl'),
-    ('${project_name}', 'middleware.py.tmpl'),
+    ('${project_name}', 'middlewares.py.tmpl'),
 )
 
 IGNORE = ignore_patterns('*.pyc', '.svn')

scrapy/templates/project/module/middleware.py.tmpl

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# Define here the models for your spider middleware
-#
-# See documentation in:
-# http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html
-
-
-class ${ProjectName}SpiderMiddleware(object):
-    # This method is called for each response that goes through the
-    # spider middleware and into the spider, for processing.
-
-    def process_spider_input(response, spider):
-        # Called for each response that goes to spider
-        pass
-
-    def process_spider_output(response, result, spider):
-        # Called for each response with the spider results
-        pass
-
-    def process_spider_exception(response, exception, spider):
-        # Called whenever a spider raises an exception
-        pass

scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Define here the models for your spider middleware
+#
+# See documentation in:
+# http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html
+
+
+class ${ProjectName}SpiderMiddleware(object):
+
+    def process_spider_input(response, spider):
+        # Called for each response that goes through the spider
+        # middleware and into the spider.
+
+        # Should return None or raise an exception.
+        pass
+
+    def process_spider_output(response, result, spider):
+        # Called with the results returned from the Spider, after
+        # it has processed the response.
+
+        # Must return an iterable of Request, dict or Item objects.
+        pass
+
+    def process_spider_exception(response, exception, spider):
+        # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method
+        # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.
+
+        # Should return either None or an iterable of Response, dict
+        # or Item objects.
+        pass
+
+    def process_start_requests(start_requests, spider):
+        # Called with the start requests of the spider, and works
+        # similarly to the process_spider_output() method, except
+        # that it doesn’t have a response associated.
+
+        # Must return only requests (not items).
+        pass

scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = True
 # Enable or disable spider middlewares
 # See http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html
 #SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {
-#    '$project_name.middlewares.MyCustomSpiderMiddleware': 543,
+#    '$project_name.middlewares.${ProjectName}SpiderMiddleware': 543,
 #}
 
 # Enable or disable downloader middlewares