consistenthash

Test Pattern-Based Consistent Hashing for a Delivery Service using a regular expression and a request path

POST

Queries database for an active Traffic Router on a given CDN and sends GET request to get the resulting path to consistent hash with a given regex and request path.

Auth. Required:

Yes

Roles Required:

None

Permissions Required:

CDN:READ

Response Type:

Object

Request Structure

regex:

The regular expression to apply to the request path to get a resulting path that will be used for consistent hashing

requestPath:

The request path to use to test the regular expression against

cdnId:

The unique identifier of a CDN that will be used to query for an active Traffic Router

#711 Request Example

POST /api/4.0/consistenthash HTTP/1.1
Host: trafficops.infra.ciab.test
User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
Accept: */*
Cookie: mojolicious=...
Content-Length: 80
Content-Type: application/json

{"regex":"/.*?(/.*?/).*?(m3u8)","requestPath":"/test/path/asset.m3u8","cdnId":2}

Response Structure

resultingPathToConsistentHash:

The resulting path that Traffic Router will use for consistent hashing

consistentHashRegex:

The regex used by Traffic Router derived from POST ‘regex’ parameter

requestPath:

The request path used by Traffic Router to test regex against

#712 Response Example

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Set-Cookie, Cookie
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST,GET,OPTIONS,PUT,DELETE
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Type: application/json
Set-Cookie: mojolicious=...; Path=/; Expires=Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:40:54 GMT; Max-Age=3600; HttpOnly
Whole-Content-Sha512: QMDFOnUfqH4TcZ4YnUQyqnXDier0YiUMIfwBGDcT7ySjw9uASBGsLQW35lpnKFi4as0vYlHuSSGpe4hHGsladQ==
X-Server-Name: traffic_ops_golang/
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:32:05 GMT
Content-Length: 142

{ "response": {
    "resultingPathToConsistentHash":"/path/m3u8",
    "consistentHashRegex":"/.*?(/.*?/).*?(m3u8)",
    "requestPath":"/test/path/asset.m3u8"
}}