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

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

#263 Request Example
POST /api/3.0/consistenthash HTTP/1.1
Host: trafficops.infra.ciab.test
User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
Accept: */*
Cookie: mojolicious=...
Content-Length: 80
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

{"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

#264 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"
}}