python pass querystring parameters to API gateway

5
votes

I am trying to integrate API gateway with Lambda proxy,

The API server receives the request with these parameters i.e postcode and house

https://api.domain.com/getAddressproxy?postcode=XX2YZ&house=123

However tests from the API gateway to the Lambda proxy does not return values

https://xxxxxxxxxx.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Test/getaddressproxy?postcode=XX2YZ&house=123

I think the issue is that the lambda function is not passing the query string parameters to the API server.

Any idea how i can pass the query string parameters to the request object?

Code:

from __future__ import print_function

import json
import urllib2
import ssl

print('Loading function')

target_server = "https://api.domain.com"

def lambda_handler(event, context):
    print("Got event\n" + json.dumps(event, indent=2))

    ctx = ssl.create_default_context()
    ctx.check_hostname = False
    ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE

    print("Event here: ")
    print(event['path'])
    print(event["queryStringParameters"])

    req = urllib2.Request(target_server + event['path'])

    if event['body']:
        req.add_data(event['body'])

    # Copy only some headers
    copy_headers = ('Accept', 'Content-Type')

    for h in copy_headers:
        if h in event['headers']:
            req.add_header(h, event['headers'][h])

    out = {}

    try:
        resp = urllib2.urlopen(req, context=ctx)
        out['statusCode'] = resp.getcode()
        out['body'] = resp.read()

    except urllib2.HTTPError as e:

        out['statusCode'] = e.getcode()
        out['body'] = e.read()

    return out
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pythonamazon-web-servicesaws-lambdaaws-api-gateway

2 Answers

4
votes

event["queryStringParameters"] is a dictionary if the API Gateway passes one or None if not passed. Convert this to a query string and append to the Request URL.

...
import urllib
...

qs = urllib.urlencode(event["queryStringParameters"] or {})
req = urllib2.Request(
        ''.join(
          (target_server, event['path'], '?', qs)
        )
      )
5
votes

Either you can take query string inside Lambda like below,

var result =  event["queryStringParameters"]['queryStringParam1']

According to your API URL,

var postcode =  event["queryStringParameters"]['postcode']
var house =  event["queryStringParameters"]['house']

or you can use body mapping template in the integration request section and get request body and query strings. Construct a new JSON at body mapping template, which will have data from request body and query string. As we are adding body mapping template your business logic will get the JSON we have constructed at body mapping template.

Inside body mapping template to get query string please do ,

$input.params('querystringkey')

For example inside body mapping template,

#set($inputRoot = $input.path('$'))
{
"firstName" : "$input.path('$.firstName')",
"lastName" : "$input.path('$.lastName')"
"language" : "$input.params('$.language')"
}

Please read https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/tag/mapping-templates/ for more details on body mapping template