Endpoint Query String

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1

I’m trying to setup a endpoint rule for a wsdl. It is called as https://domain.com/abc/1.0?wsdl

I’ve tried most regex for path, but I cannot seem to match the ?wsdl side.

Is there regex I am messing for this? (or will I have to muster something up in the middleware?)

2

The path will only match on the path, not query Params.

What is it you need to do after it gets matched, there is a way to match on query params but it’s only useful in certain cases?

3

I was hoping that https:/domain.com/abc/1.0 would be the bound endpoint for services and https:/domain.com/abc/1.0?wsdl would be the wsdl defining the service. (This is our pre-tyk setup)

The wsdl is generated w/ a binding endpoint to match the host passed in. But with tyk in between the host becomes something like backendapi.domain.com I was hoping to rewrite the xml back the caller.

4

Ah, that is tricky. Tyk matches on the path only, not params, so to differentiate that endpoint you would need to integrate it into the path.

I assume the wsdl one is a different upstream endpoint altogether?

5

No, the wsdl one is not a diff upstream/backend. Same endpoint

6

Right, I think this might not be possible at the moment, matching is done on the path, not on path+params, so this would need to be part of an update down the line.

7

so we should open a github issue?

8

I’d suggest adding it to this issue here, as it is related and already milestoned:

9

There might be a workaround here, it involves redirects and virtual endpoints:

1. Have some PRE middleware that detects the wsdl parameter:

var helloWorld = new TykJS.TykMiddleware.NewMiddleware({});
log("------------ Initialising PRE middleware ------------");
helloWorld.NewProcessRequest(function(request, session, config) {
    log("Running sample  PRE PROCESSOR JSVM middleware with iteration")
    if (request.Params.hasOwnProperty("wsdl")) {
        log("WSDL Detected!")
        request.URL = "/reserved/wsdl/getter"
        request.AddParams["wsdl"] = "123"
    }
    log("Done")
    
    return helloWorld.ReturnData(request, {});
});

// Ensure init with a post-declaration log message
log("------------ Sample PRE middleware initialised ------------");

The above will only change our path variable if we detect the wsdl paramter, we then change the URL (path) of the request, and also - for the sake of it, add the wsdl param back.

2. Create a virtual endpoint that fetches the WSDL, and modifies the XML in some way to return to the end user:

function getXML (request, session, config) {
        log("XML Test running")
        var newRequest = {
            "Method": "GET",
            "Body": "",
            "Headers": {},
            "Domain": "http://httpbin.org",
            "Resource": "/get",
            "FormData": {"wsdl": "my-custom-param", "foo":"bar"}
        };

        var resp = TykMakeHttpRequest(JSON.stringify(newRequest))

        log("Got resp")
        var cleanResp = JSON.parse(resp)

        var responseObject = {
            Body: cleanResp.Body,
            Code: cleanResp.Code
        }

        log("Responding")
    
        return TykJsResponse(responseObject, session.meta_data)   
    }
log("---------> getXML initialised")

(edit: The Form Data does not seem to be working properly, we’ll need to investigate why that is).

The above function just makes a request to /get on httpbin and pushes the response back to the user. But the principle is the same.

So essentially:

  • Pre Middleware detects the ?wsdl querystring, if it detects it, it redirects the request to a reserved virtual path
  • The virtual path then handles fetching the actual WSDL and transforms it as needed for the end user.