Get the category to which the user belongs to from tyk?

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Hi,
Let’s say we have 3 category of users: admin, editor and viewer. We want to setup permission based access where if he is accessing a particular API endpoint, we want to be able to identify which class he belongs to and then return appropriate data back.

Can tyk inject a custom header in the request, something like category: editor so we can parse this header in our backend and do some stuff?

Thank you

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Hi, you could use metadata for this use case, check this page and also the session object page. This is a customizable field that’s part of a key.

Are you using the Tyk Dashboard to setup keys?

Best.

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Hi,

We’re evaluating using Tyk gateway headless so i’m wondering how it could be done using the APIs …

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Right, check the gateway API docs here, you could append additional information to the meta_data field when creating new keys.

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Hi,

I’ve setup the relevant metadata (category:admin) for the particular API key which i’m accessing through the dashboard and when I print all the header information on my server endpoint, tyk is not forwarding this metadata field. Any idea how to allow this to happen?

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Hi, to use the metadata values with the header injection middleware check this page.