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Reputation: 867

Node http-proxy / http-proxy-middleware - How do you manipulate proxy response

I'm using Express 4, and I'm using a middleware http-proxy-middleware ( https://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware), and having the following issues

In normal way, I can do the following to manupulate the response before return to the client

app.get('/v1/users/:username', function(request, response, next) {
    var username = request.params.username;
    findUserByUsername(username, function(error, user) {
        if (error) return next(error);
        return response.render('user', user);
    });
});

But how do I execute custom logic if I'm using proxy, let's say I want to manipulate some of the data before response to the client? Is there a good pattern to do that with this middleware ?

app.use('/api', proxy({target: 'http://www.example.org', changeOrigin: true}));

Here is the backlink for the issue I put in github as well - https://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware/issues/97

Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7498

Answers (2)

Sachin Mour
Sachin Mour

Reputation: 635

I think this is the correct way to do it according to the official documentation of http-proxy. modify -response

app.use('/api', proxy({
    target: 'http://www.example.org',
    changeOrigin: true,
    selfHandleResponse: true, // so that the onProxyRes takes care of sending the response
    onProxyRes: function(proxyRes, req, res) {
        var body = new Buffer('');
        proxyRes.on('data', function(data) {
            body = Buffer.concat([body, data]);
        });
        proxyRes.on('end', function() {
            body = body.toString();
            console.log("res from proxied server:", body);
            res.end("my response to cli");
        });
    }
}));

Upvotes: 3

user3368289
user3368289

Reputation: 1

here is my answer,

onProxyRes :function(proxyRes, req, res){
      var _write = res.write;
      var output;
      var body = "";
      proxyRes.on('data', function(data) {
          data = data.toString('utf-8');
          body += data;
      });
      res.write = function (data) {
        try{
/*** something detect if data is all download.my data is json,so I can do by this***/
          eval("output="+body)
          output = mock.mock(output)
          _write.call(res,JSON.stringify(output));
        } catch (err) {}
      }
    }

add onProxyRes option on the http-proxy-middleware use the data event on the proxyRes to get the output then modify the output in res.write

Upvotes: 0

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