Kong Middleman

A Kong plugin that enables an extra HTTP POST request before proxying the original.

Description

In some cases, you may need to validate a request to a separate server or service using custom logic before Kong proxies it to your API. Middleman enables you to do that by allowing you to make an extra HTTP request before calling an API endpoint.

Installation

Development

Navigate to kong/plugins folder and clone this repo

$ cd /path/to/kong/plugins
$ git clone https://github.com/pantsel/kong-middleman-plugin middleman
$ cd middleman
$ luarocks make *.rockspec

To make Kong aware that it has to look for the middleman plugin, you'll have to add it to the custom_plugins property in your configuration file.

custom_plugins:
    - middleman

Restart Kong and you're ready to go.

luarocks

$ luarocks install middleman

Configuration

You can add the plugin on top of an API by executing the following request on your Kong server:

$ curl -X POST http://kong:8001/apis/{api}/plugins \
    --data "name=middleman" \
    --data "config.url=http://myserver.io/validate"
    --data "config.response=table"
    --data "config.timeout=10000"
    --data "config.keepalive=60000"

form parameter	default	description
`name`		The name of the plugin to use, in this case: `middleman`
`config.url` required		The URL to which the plugin will make a JSON `POST` request before proxying the original request.
`config.response` required		The type of response the middleman service is going to respond with
`config.timeout`		Timeout (miliseconds) for the request to the URL specified above. Default value is 10000.
`config.keepalive`		Keepalive time (miliseconds) for the request to the URL specified above. Default value is 60000.

Middleman will execute a JSON POST request to the specified url with the following body:

Attribute	Description
`body_data`	The body of the original request
`url_args`	The url arguments of the original request
`headers`	The headers of the original request

In the scope of your own endpoint, you may validate any of these attributes and accept or reject the request according to your needs. If an HTTP response code of 299 or less is returned, the request is accepted. Any response code above 299 will cause the request to be rejected.

Author

Panagis Tselentis

License

The MIT License (MIT)
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Copyright (c) 2015 Panagis Tselentis

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