Is there a way to set up a default version?

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Hi,

We’re using headers for versioning, and would like to support an unspecified version. For example, this is a normal, versioned, API call:

`curl -H "Accept: application/json; version=1" https://.../apiCall`

We’d also like to allow clients to omit the version, and have this succeed:

curl https://.../apiCall

Is this possible?

Thanks,

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Hi Sean,

This is not possible at the moment. Not specifying a version will always result in a “Version information not found” error.

The only case under which the gateway selects a version on its own is when the endpoint isn’t versioned, which isn’t very helpful here.

I’ve opened an issue here, where you can track design and progres: Add a way to define a default API version for when none is requested · Issue #955 · TykTechnologies/tyk · GitHub

Please do comment there if you think the design has any shortcomings or if it doesn’t solve what you were after.

Thanks!

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Just to add to this, until we have a feature in place, you could use a JavaScript (or any) middleware in the PRE (pre-processing) phase to add a default header if it does not exist.

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(Of course this would be problematic on cloud!)