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title: Developer Guide

Overview

This documentation explains how to develop this project.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.7+
• APISIX 2.7.0+

Debug

• Run make setup installation dependencies
• Run make install installation runner to system
• Run make dev to start it

Plugin

Plugin directory

/path/to/apisix-python-plugin-runner/apisix/plugin

the .py files in this directory autoload

Plugin example

/path/to/apisix-python-plugin-runner/apisix/plugin/stop.py
/path/to/apisix-python-plugin-runner/apisix/plugin/rewrite.py

Plugin Format

from typing import Any
from apisix.runner.http.request import Request
from apisix.runner.http.response import Response
from apisix.runner.plugin.core import PluginBase


class Test(PluginBase):

    def name(self) -> str:
        """
        The name of the plugin registered in the runner
        :return:
        """
        return "test"

    def config(self, conf: Any) -> Any:
        """
        Parse plugin configuration
        :param conf:
        :return:
        """
        return conf

    def filter(self, conf: Any, request: Request, response: Response):
        """
        The plugin executes the main function
        :param conf:
            plugin configuration after parsing
        :param request:
            request parameters and information
        :param response:
            response parameters and information
        :return:
        """

        # print plugin configuration
        print(conf)

        # Fetch request nginx variable `host`
        host = request.get_var("host")
        print(host)

        # Fetch request body
        body = request.get_body()
        print(body)

        # Set response headers
        response.set_header("X-Resp-A6-Runner", "Python")

        # Set response body
        response.set_body("Hello, Python Runner of APISIX")

        # Set response status code
        response.set_status_code(201)

• Plugins must inherit the PluginBase class and implement all functions.
  • name function: used to set the registered plugin name.
  • config function: used to parse plugin configuration.
  • filter function: used to filter requests.
    • conf parameter: plugin configuration after parsing.
    • request parameter: Request object, which can be used to get and set request information.
    • response parameter: Response object, which can be used to set response information.

Test

Run make test.

Data Format

FlatBuffers

Data Protocol

1 byte of type + 3 bytes of length + data