Response Plugins

Since Tyk 3.0 we have incorporated response hooks, this type of hook allows you to modify the response object returned by the upstream. The flow is follows:

Tyk receives the request.
Tyk runs the full middleware chain, including any other plugins hooks like Pre, Post, Custom Authentication, etc.
Tyk sends the request to your upstream API.
The request is received by Tyk and the response hook is triggered.
Your plugin modifies the response and sends it back to Tyk.
Tyk takes the modified response and is received by the client.

This snippet illustrates the hook function signature:

@Hook
def ResponseHook(request, response, session, metadata, spec):
    tyk.log("ResponseHook is called", "info")
    # In this hook we have access to the response object, to inspect it, uncomment the following line:
    # print(response)
    tyk.log("ResponseHook: upstream returned {0}".format(response.status_code), "info")
    # Attach a new response header:
    response.headers["injectedkey"] = "injectedvalue"
    return response

The API definition should have this:

{
    "custom_middleware": {
        "response": [
            {
                "name": "ResponseHook",
                "path": "middleware/middleware.py"
            }
        ],
        "driver": "python"
    }
}

Go response plugins

Go response plugins are available from Tyk 3.2. See Using a Go Response Plugin

Supported Response Plugin Languages

See Supported Plugins for details on which languages the response plugin is supported in.

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