tee

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Overview

Package tee provides a unix-like tee feature for routing.

Using this filter, the request will be sent to a "shadow" backend in addition to the main backend of the route.

Example:

• -> tee("https://audit-logging.example.org") -> "https://foo.example.org"

This will send an identical request for foo.example.org to audit-logging.example.org. Another use case could be using it for benchmarking a new backend with some real traffic

The above route will forward the request to https://foo.example.org as it normally would do, but in addition to that, it will send an identical request to https://audit-logging.example.org. The request sent to https://audit-logging.example.org will receive the same method and headers, and a copy of the body stream. The tee response is ignored.

It is possible to change the path of the tee request, in a similar way to the modPath filter:

Path("/api/v1") -> tee("https://api.example.org", "^/v1", "/v2" ) -> "http://api.example.org"

In the above example, one can test how a new version of an API would behave on incoming requests.

Index

• Constants
• func NewTee() filters.Spec
• func NewTeeDeprecated() filters.Spec

Constants

const (
	Name           = "tee"
	DeprecatedName = "Tee"
)

Functions

func NewTee

func NewTee() filters.Spec

Returns a new tee filter Spec, whose instances execute the exact same Request against a shadow backend. parameters: shadow backend url, optional - the path(as a regexp) to match and the replacement string.

Name: "tee".

func NewTeeDeprecated

func NewTeeDeprecated() filters.Spec

Returns a new tee filter Spec, whose instances execute the exact same Request against a shadow backend. parameters: shadow backend url, optional - the path(as a regexp) to match and the replacement string.

This version uses the capitalized version of the filter name and to follow conventions, it is deprecated and NewTee() (providing the name "tee") should be used instead.

Name: "Tee".