Splitting a string of locations for Service Discovery

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My service discovery backend returns a location string such as: “host1:port1,host2:port2”, How can I set up my api to split up the string and use a random location to serve my request. I believe this can be acheived the target list option but am confused as to how to correctly configure it.

Thanks

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What SD is it? There’s examples of the settings in the tests for most of the popular ones:

https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk/blob/master/service_discovery_test.go

IF you can give us the full output object and it;s for a popular system we can always add a test.

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Hey Martin,

Thanks for the link, it was super helpful to see what format tyk expects when parsing an etcd response. After mimicking the etcd nested list options I have tyk successfully configured.

Follow up question: how does tyk decide what host/port combo to use? Is it round robin or random?

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It’s round robin :slight_smile: