apisix/doc/plugins/echo.md

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Summary

Name

echo is a a useful plugin to help users understand as fully as possible how to develop an APISIX plugin.

This plugin addresses the corresponding functionality in the common phases such as init, rewrite, access, balancer, header filer, body filter and log.

NOTE: echo plugin is written as an example. There are some unhandled cases and you should not use it in the production!

Attributes

Name Type Requirement Default Valid Description
before_body string optional Body before the filter phase.
body string optional Body to replace upstream response.
after_body string optional Body after the modification of filter phase.
headers object optional New headers for response
auth_value string optional Auth value

At least one of before_body, body, and after_body must be specified.

How To Enable

The following is an example on how to enable the echo plugin for a specific route.

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "plugins": {
        "echo": {
            "before_body": "before the body modification "
        }
    },
    "upstream": {
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        },
        "type": "roundrobin"
    },
    "uri": "/hello"
}'

Test Plugin

  • success:
$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
before the body modification hello world

Disable Plugin

Remove the corresponding json configuration in the plugin configuration to disable the echo. APISIX plugins are hot-reloaded, therefore no need to restart APISIX.

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:2379/apisix/admin/routes/1  -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d value='
{
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {},
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'