rest-api-proxy 0.1.1

Alters and forwards incoming API requests

rest-api-proxy

Another DRF API proxy to redirect incoming requests to another API server, but with the option of altering the request and the response.

The original use case that motivated this implementation is to have a node responsible for the encryption/decryption of payloads, so that cryptographic keys are kept separated from the data.

TODO

• Add options to inject extra headers
• Add extra options to inject authentication data
• Add examples that alters requests

Usage

Setting the target server

The target server can be defined in settings.py by setting the HOST URL entry in the REST_API_PROXY dictionary as follows:

# settings.py
REST_API_PROXY = {
    'HOST': 'http://real-handler.com',
}

This can be set also directly to the instance via:

proxy = ProxyBase.as_view(proxy_settings={'HOST': 'http://real-handler.com'})

Request altering

Altering the request is achieved by extending the ProxyBase class.

class Proxy(ProxyBase):
    def process_request(self, request):
        # alter you request here
        return request

    def process_response(self, response):
        # alter you response here
        return response

Development

To install dependencies run:

uv sync --dev

Running tests

python runtests.py

License

rest-api-proxy is offered under the BSD-2-Clause license.

Credits

This work is inspired by django-api-proxy (Simplified BSD License).