TSHTTPHOOKADD(3ts)

NAME
TSHttpHookAdd - intercept Traffic Server events

SYNOPSIS

            #include <ts/ts.h>

    void TSHttpHookAdd(TSHttpHookID id, TSCont contp)

    void TSHttpSsnHookAdd(TSHttpSsn ssnp, TSHttpHookID id, TSCont contp)

    void TSHttpTxnHookAdd(TSHttpTxn txnp, TSHttpHookID id, TSCont contp)

DESCRIPTION

Hooks are points in Apache Traffic Server transaction HTTP processing where plugins can step in and do some work. Registering a plugin function for callback amounts to adding the function to a hook. You can register your plugin to be called back for every single transaction, or for specific transactions only.

HTTP transaction hooks are set on a global basis using the function TSHttpHookAdd(). This means that the continuation specified as the parameter to TSHttpHookAdd() is called for every transaction. TSHttpHookAdd() must only be called from TSPluginInit() or TSRemapInit().

TSHttpSsnHookAdd() adds contp to the end of the list of HTTP session hooks specified by id. This means that contp is called back for every transaction within the session, at the point specified by the hook ID. Since contp is added to a session, it is not possible to call TSHttpSsnHookAdd() from the plugin initialization routine; the plugin needs a handle to an HTTP session.

TSHttpTxnHookAdd() adds contp to the end of the list of HTTP transaction hooks specified by id. Since contp is added to a transaction, it is not possible to call TSHttpTxnHookAdd() from the plugin initialization routine but only when the plugin has a handle to an HTTP transaction.

A single continuation can be attached to multiple hooks at the same time. It is good practice to conserve resources by reusing hooks in this way when possible.

When a continuation on a hook is triggered, the name of the event passed to the continuation function depends on the name of the hook. The naming convention is that, for hook TS_xxx_HOOK, the event passed to the continuation function will be TS_EVENT_xxx. For example, when a continuation attached to TS_HTTP_READ_REQUEST_HDR_HOOK is triggered, the event passed to the continuation function will be TS_EVENT_HTTP_READ_REQUEST_HDR.

When a continuation is triggered by a hook, the actual type of the event data (the void pointer passed as the third parameter to the continuation function) is determined by which hook it is. For example, for the hook ID TS_HTTP_TXN_CLOSE_HOOK, the event data is of type TSHttpTxn. This is the case regardless of whether the continuation was added to the hook using TSHttpTxnHookAdd(), TSHttpSsnHookAdd() or TSHttpHookAdd(). If the event data is of type TSHttpTxn, TSHttpSsn or TSVConn, the continuation function can assume the mutex of the indicated event data object is locked. (But the continuation function must not unlock it.)

RETURN VALUES

None. Adding hooks is always successful.

EXAMPLES

The following example demonstrates how to add global, session and transaction hooks:

            #include <ts/ts.h>

            static int
            handler(TSCont contp, TSEvent event, void *edata)
            {
                TSHttpSsn ssnp;
                TSHttpTxn txnp;

                switch (event){
                case TS_EVENT_HTTP_SSN_START:
                    ssnp = (TSHttpSsn) edata;
                    // Add a session hook ...
                    TSHttpSsnHookAdd(ssnp, TS_HTTP_TXN_START_HOOK, contp);
                    TSHttpSsnReenable(ssnp, TS_EVENT_HTTP_CONTINUE);
                    return 0;
                case TS_EVENT_HTTP_TXN_START:
                    txnp = (TSHttpTxn) edata;
                    // Add a transaction hook ...
                    TSHttpTxnHookAdd(txnp, TS_HTTP_READ_REQUEST_HDR_HOOK, contp);
                    TSHttpTxnReenable(txnp, TS_EVENT_HTTP_CONTINUE);
                    return 0;
                case TS_EVENT_HTTP_READ_REQUEST_HDR:
                    txnp = (TSHttpTxn) edata;
                    // ...
                    TSHttpTxnReenable(txnp, TS_EVENT_HTTP_CONTINUE);
                    return 0;
                default:
                     break;
                }

                return 0;
            }

            void
            TSPluginInit (int argc, const char *argv[])
            {
                TSCont contp;
                contp = TSContCreate(handler, NULL);
                TSHttpHookAdd(TS_HTTP_SSN_START_HOOK, contp);
            }

For more example code using hooks, see the test_hooks plugin in tests/tools/plugins (used by the test_hooks.test.py Gold test).

SEE ALSO

TSAPI(3ts), TSContCreate(3ts), TSLifecycleHookAdd(3ts)

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