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Policies Reference

Rewrite

Description

The Rewrite policy can rewrite the requested url or eventually redirect the current request with a specified status code.

This type of policy should generally be placed first in the policies list within a pipeline.

Usage

The Rewrite policy was the first policy to be built utilizing the plugin framework and not included as part of EG core.

To enable it, you need to install its plugin first:

eg plugins install express-gateway-plugin-rewrite

Then add rewrite in gateway.config.yml in the policies section.

policies:
  - rewrite

Example

policies:
  -
    rewrite:
      -
        condition:
          name: pathmatch
          match: /tina/:code # Express Path
        action:
          rewrite: /status/:code
          redirect: 302
      -
        condition:
          name: regexpmatch
          match: ^/js/(.*)$
        action:
          rewrite: /src/js/$1

Reference

Condition

• pathmatch: Express Path corresponding to the url pattern to look for
• regexpmatch: RegExp corresponding to the url pattern to look for

Policy

• rewrite:
  • Express Path or RegExp corresponding to the url pattern to rewrite. The format should match the one used in the condition.
• redirect:
  • When set to a number, it’ll redirect the request with the provided status code. If omitted, a rewrite action will be performed. You’re responsibile for the returned status code - there’s no validation.

Notes

In case you’re using Express Path as expression, you can use route parameters as well as multi segment matches: they will be forwarded correctly.

policies:
  -
    rewrite:
      -
        condition:
          name: pathmatch
          match: /api/:route*
        action:
          rewrite: /api/v1/:route
          redirect: 302

In this example, if the gateway is hit with an url such as /api/users/nick, the user will be redirected to /api/v1/users/nick