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Overview ¶
Package eskip implements an in-memory representation of Skipper routes and a DSL for describing Skipper route expressions, route definitions and complete routing tables.
Grammar Summary ¶
A routing table is built up from 0 or more route definitions. The definitions are separated by ';'. A route definition contains one route expression prefixed by its id and a ':'.
A routing table example:
catalog: Path("/*category") -> "https://catalog.example.org";
productPage: Path("/products/:id") -> "https://products.example.org";
userAccount: Path("/user/:id/*userpage") -> "https://users.example.org";
// 404
notfound: * ->
modPath(/.+/, "/notfound.html") -> static("/", "/var/www") ->
<shunt>
A route expression always contains a match expression and a backend expression, and it can contain optional filter expressions. The match expression, each filter and the backend are separated by '->'. The filters take place between the matcher and the backend.
A route expression example:
Path("/api/*resource") && Header("Accept", "application/json") ->
modPath("^/api", "") -> requestHeader("X-Type", "external") ->
"https://api.example.org"
Match Expressions - Predicates ¶
A match expression contains one or more predicates. An incoming request must fulfill each of them to match the route. The predicates are separated by '&&'.
A match expression example:
Path("/api/*resource") && Header("Accept", "application/json")
The following predicate expressions are recognized:
Path("/some/path")
The path predicate accepts a single argument, that can be a fixed path like "/some/path", or it can contain wildcards in place of one or more names in the path, e.g. "/some/:dir/:name", or it can end with a free wildcard like "/some/path/*param", where the free wildcard can contain a sub-path with multiple names. Note, that this solution implicitly supports the glob standard, e.g. "/some/path/**" will work as expected. The arguments are available to the filters while processing the matched requests.
PathSubtree("/some/path")
The path subtree predicate behaves similar to the path predicate, but it matches the exact path in the definition and any sub path below it. The subpath is automatically provided in the path parameter with the name "*". If a free wildcard is appended to the definition, e.g. PathSubtree("/some/path/*rest"), the free wildcard name is used instead of "*". The simple wildcards behave similar to the Path predicate.
PathRegexp(/regular-expression/)
The regexp path predicate accepts a regular expression as a single argument that needs to be matched by the request path. The regular expression can be surrounded by '/' or '"'.
Host(/host-regular-expression/)
The host predicate accepts a regular expression as a single argument that needs to be matched by the host header in the request.
Method("HEAD")
The method predicate is used to match the http request method.
Header("Accept", "application/json")
The header predicate is used to match the http headers in the request. It accepts two arguments, the name of the header field and the exact header value to match.
HeaderRegexp("Accept", /\Wapplication\/json\W/)
The header regexp predicate works similar to the header expression, but the value to be matched is a regular expression.
*
Catch all predicate.
Any()
Former, deprecated form of the catch all predicate.
Custom Predicates ¶
Eskip supports custom route matching predicates, that can be implemented in extensions. The notation of custom predicates is the same as of the built-in route matching expressions:
Foo(3.14, "bar")
During parsing, custom predicates may define any arbitrary list of arguments of types number, string or regular expression, and it is the responsibility of the implementation to validate them.
(See the documentation of the routing package.)
Filters ¶
Filters are used to augment the incoming requests and the outgoing responses, or do other useful or fun stuff. Filters can have different numbers of arguments depending on the implementation of the particular filter. The arguments can be of type string ("a string"), number (3.1415) or regular expression (/[.]html$/ or "[.]html$").
A filter example:
setResponseHeader("max-age", "86400") -> static("/", "/var/www/public")
The default Skipper implementation provides the following built-in filters:
setRequestHeader("header-name", "header-value")
setResponseHeader("header-name", "header-value")
appendRequestHeader("header-name", "header-value")
appendResponseHeader("header-name", "header-value")
dropRequestHeader("header-name")
dropResponseHeader("header-name")
modPath(/regular-expression/, "replacement")
setPath("/replacement")
redirectTo(302, "https://ui.example.org")
flowId("reuse", 64)
healthcheck()
static("/images", "/var/www/images")
stripQuery("true")
preserveHost()
status(418)
tee("https://audit-logging.example.org")
For details about the built-in filters, please, refer to the documentation of the skipper/filters package. Skipper is designed to be extendable primarily by implementing custom filters, for details about how to create custom filters, please, refer to the documentation of the root skipper package.
Naming conventions ¶
Note, that the naming of predicates and filters follows the following convention: both predicates and filters are written in camel case, and predicates start with upper case, while filters start with lower case.
Backend ¶
There are three types of backends: a network endpoint address, a shunt or a loopback.
A network endpoint address example:
"http://internal.example.org:9090"
An endpoint address backend is surrounded by '"'. It contains the scheme and the hostname of the endpoint, and optionally the port number that is inferred from the scheme if not specified.
A shunt backend:
<shunt>
The shunt backend means that the route will not forward the request to a network endpoint, but the router will handle the request itself. By default, the response is in this case 404 Not found, unless a filter in the route does not change it.
A loop backend:
<loopback>
The loopback means that the state of the request at the end of the request filter chain will be matched against the lookup table instead of being sent to a network backend. When the new route returns, the filter chain is on the response is executed on the original loop route, and the response is returned. The path parameters of the outer, looping, route are preserved for the inner route, but the path parameters of the inner route are discarded once it returns.
Comments ¶
An eskip document can contain comments. The rule for comments is simple: everything is a comment that starts with '//' and ends with a new-line character.
Example with comments:
// forwards to the API endpoint
route1: Path("/api") -> "https://api.example.org";
route2: * -> <shunt> // everything else 404
Regular expressions ¶
The matching predicates and the built-in filters that use regular expressions, use the go stdlib regexp, which uses re2:
https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax
Parsing Filters ¶
The eskip.ParseFilters method can be used to parse a chain of filters, without the matcher and backend part of a full route expression.
Parsing ¶
Parsing a routing table or a route expression happens with the eskip.Parse function. In case of grammar error, it returns an error with the approximate position of the invalid syntax element, otherwise it returns a list of structured, in-memory route definitions.
The eskip parser does not validate the routes against all semantic rules, e.g., whether a filter or a custom predicate implementation is available. This validation happens during processing the parsed definitions.
Serializing ¶
Serializing a single route happens by calling its String method. Serializing a complete routing table happens by calling the eskip.String method.
Package template provides a simple templating solution reusable in filters.
(Note that the current template syntax is EXPERIMENTAL, and may change in the near future.)
Example ¶
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"github.com/zalando/skipper/eskip"
)
func main() {
code := `
// Skipper - Eskip:
// a routing table document, containing multiple route definitions
// route definition to a jsx page renderer
route0:
PathRegexp(/\.html$/) && HeaderRegexp("Accept", "text/html") ->
modPath(/\.html$/, ".jsx") ->
requestHeader("X-Type", "page") ->
"https://render.example.org";
route1: Path("/some/path") -> "https://backend-0.example.org"; // a simple route
// route definition with a shunt (no backend address)
route2: Path("/some/other/path") -> static("/", "/var/www") -> <shunt>;
// route definition directing requests to an api endpoint
route3:
Method("POST") && Path("/api") ->
requestHeader("X-Type", "ajax-post") ->
"https://api.example.org";
// route definition with a loopback to route2 (no backend address)
route4: Path("/some/alternative/path") -> setPath("/some/other/path") -> <loopback>;
`
routes, err := eskip.Parse(code)
if err != nil {
log.Println(err)
return
}
format := "%v: [match] -> [%v filter(s) ->] <%v> \"%v\"\n"
fmt.Println("Parsed routes:")
for _, r := range routes {
fmt.Printf(format, r.Id, len(r.Filters), r.BackendType, r.Backend)
}
Output:
Index ¶
Examples ¶
Constants ¶
const ( NetworkBackend = iota ShuntBackend LoopBackend )
Variables ¶
This section is empty.
Functions ¶
func GenerateIfNeeded ¶
generate weak random id for a route if it doesn't have one.
Types ¶
type BackendType ¶ added in v0.9.39
type BackendType int
BackendType indicates whether a route is a network backend, a shunt or a loopback.
func (BackendType) String ¶ added in v0.9.39
func (t BackendType) String() string
type Filter ¶
type Filter struct {
// name of the filter specification
Name string `json:"name"`
// filter args applied withing a particular route
Args []interface{} `json:"args"`
}
A Filter object represents a parsed, in-memory filter expression.
Example ¶
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"github.com/zalando/skipper/eskip"
)
func main() {
code := `
Method("GET") -> helloFilter("Hello, world!", 3.14) -> "https://backend.example.org"`
routes, err := eskip.Parse(code)
if err != nil {
log.Println(err)
return
}
f := routes[0].Filters[0]
fmt.Println("Parsed a route with a filter:")
fmt.Printf("filter name: %v\n", f.Name)
fmt.Printf("filter arg 0: %v\n", f.Args[0].(string))
fmt.Printf("filter arg 1: %v\n", f.Args[1].(float64))
}
Output: Parsed a route with a filter: filter name: helloFilter filter arg 0: Hello, world! filter arg 1: 3.14
func ParseFilters ¶
Parses a filter chain into a list of parsed filter definitions.
Example ¶
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"github.com/zalando/skipper/eskip"
)
func main() {
code := `filter0() -> filter1(3.14, "Hello, world!")`
filters, err := eskip.ParseFilters(code)
if err != nil {
log.Println(err)
return
}
fmt.Println("Parsed a chain of filters:")
fmt.Printf("filters count: %d\n", len(filters))
fmt.Printf("first filter: %s\n", filters[0].Name)
fmt.Printf("second filter: %s\n", filters[1].Name)
fmt.Printf("second filter, first arg: %g\n", filters[1].Args[0].(float64))
fmt.Printf("second filter, second arg: %s\n", filters[1].Args[1].(string))
}
Output: Parsed a chain of filters: filters count: 2 first filter: filter0 second filter: filter1 second filter, first arg: 3.14 second filter, second arg: Hello, world!
func (*Filter) MarshalJSON ¶
type Predicate ¶
type Predicate struct {
// The name of the custom predicate as referenced
// in the route definition. E.g. 'Foo'.
Name string `json:"name"`
// The arguments of the predicate as defined in the
// route definition. The arguments can be of type
// float64 or string (string for both strings and
// regular expressions).
Args []interface{} `json:"args"`
}
A Predicate object represents a parsed, in-memory, route matching predicate that is defined by extensions.
func (*Predicate) MarshalJSON ¶
type Route ¶
type Route struct {
// Id of the route definition.
// E.g. route1: ...
Id string
// Deprecated, use Path Predicate
//
// Exact path to be matched.
// E.g. Path("/some/path")
Path string
// Host regular expressions to match.
// E.g. Host(/[.]example[.]org/)
HostRegexps []string
// Path regular expressions to match.
// E.g. PathRegexp(/\/api\//)
PathRegexps []string
// Method to match.
// E.g. Method("HEAD")
Method string
// Exact header definitions to match.
// E.g. Header("Accept", "application/json")
Headers map[string]string
// Header regular expressions to match.
// E.g. HeaderRegexp("Accept", /\Wapplication\/json\W/)
HeaderRegexps map[string][]string
// Custom predicates to match.
// E.g. Traffic(.3)
Predicates []*Predicate
// Set of filters in a particular route.
// E.g. redirect(302, "https://www.example.org/hello")
Filters []*Filter
// Indicates that the parsed route has a shunt backend.
// (<shunt>, no forwarding to a backend)
//
// Deprecated, use the BackendType field instead.
Shunt bool
// Indicates that the parsed route is a shunt, loopback or
// it is forwarding to a network backend.
BackendType BackendType
// The address of a backend for a parsed route.
// E.g. "https://www.example.org"
Backend string
}
A Route object represents a parsed, in-memory route definition.
func Parse ¶
Parses a route expression or a routing document to a set of route definitions.
Example ¶
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"github.com/zalando/skipper/eskip"
)
func main() {
code := `
PathRegexp(/\.html$/) && Header("Accept", "text/html") ->
modPath(/\.html$/, ".jsx") ->
requestHeader("X-Type", "page") ->
"https://render.example.org"`
routes, err := eskip.Parse(code)
if err != nil {
log.Println(err)
return
}
fmt.Printf("Parsed route with backend: %s\n", routes[0].Backend)
}
Output: Parsed route with backend: https://render.example.org
func (*Route) MarshalJSON ¶
type RouteInfo ¶
type RouteInfo struct {
// The route id plus the route data or if parsing was successful.
Route
// The parsing error if the parsing failed.
ParseError error
}
RouteInfo contains a route id, plus the loaded and parsed route or the parse error in case of failure.
type RoutePredicate ¶
type Template ¶
type Template struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
Template represents a string template with named placeholders.
func NewTemplate ¶
New parses a template string and returns a reusable *Template object. The template string can contain named placeholders of the format:
Hello, ${who}!
func (*Template) Apply ¶
func (t *Template) Apply(get TemplateGetter) string
Apply evaluates the template using a TemplateGetter function to resolve the placeholders.
type TemplateGetter ¶
TemplateGetter functions return the value for a template parameter name.
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