data-structure.md

Data structure

The Router requires two MongoDB collections: routes and backends.

Routes

The routes collection uses the following data structure:

{
  "_id"           : ObjectId(),
  "route_type"    : ["prefix","exact"],
  "incoming_path" : "/url-path/here",
  "handler"       : ["backend", "redirect", "gone"],
}

Incoming paths with special characters must be in their % encoded form in the database (eg spaces must be stored as %20).

The behaviour of an enabled route is determined by handler. See below for extra fields corresponding to handler types.

backend handler

The backend handler causes the Router to reverse proxy to a named backend. The following extra fields are supported:

{
  "backend_id" : "backend-id-corresponding-to-backends-collection"
}

redirect handler

The redirect handler causes the Router to redirect the given incoming_path to the path stored in redirect_to. The following extra fields are supported:

{
  "redirect_to"   : "/target-of-redirect"
}

gone handler

The gone handler causes the Router to return a 410 response.

Backends

The backends collection uses the following data structure:

{
  "_id"         : ObjectId(),
  "backend_id"  : "arbitrary-slug-or-name",
  "backend_url" : "https://example.com:port/"
}