Execute a Python script in an API flow.
This sample uses this policy:
Python Script: To set response headers. The policy is set on the target response flow.
Note: This policy is not available with Apigee Edge Free (free, non-expiring license). See Apigee Edge Pricing Features. To enable this policy in your environment, contact Apigee Support.
This simple example executes a Python script that adds a response header to the API response. The proxy calls an API that returns XML data about a user:
<root>
<city>San Jose</city>
<firstName>John</firstName>
<lastName>Doe</lastName>
<state>CA</state>
</root>
The Python script just sets a response header named X-Apigee-Demo-target to the response that contained the URL of the backend service:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:20:57 GMT
ETag: W/"8d-/7TqkgBKcDi8Ug3uWWUJpw"
Server: Apigee Router
X-Apigee-Demo-target: http://mocktarget.apigee.net/xml
X-Powered-By: Apigee
Content-Length: 141
Connection: keep-alive
The Python script is shown below. The Python scripts accesses a flow variable named target.url that contains the URL of the target endpoint:
Note that the output of the printf statement does not get added to the response:
response.setVariable("header.X-Apigee-Demo-target", flow.getVariable("target.url"));
print 'Reached the script & assigned header variable'
See the main project README file for information about setting up, deploying, and invoking sample proxies.
To deploy, run $ sh deploy.sh
To test, run $ sh invoke.sh
This screen shot from the Apigee Edge trace tool shows the placement of the policies used in this sample.
Policies used in this sample
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