Azure API Management Service Set body Policy - modify JSON response to return certain fields

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Azure API Management Service "Set body" Policy

We can modify the response of an API service. For Eg., instead of returning below :

{ 
  "company" : "Azure",
  "service" : "API Management"
}

We would only like to return :

{ "company" : "Azure" }

I am not sure how to accomplish this as I have no idea what kind of programming language / syntax they are using in their documentation as shown below :

<set-body>  
@{   
    string inBody = context.Request.Body.As<string>(preserveContent: true);   
    if (inBody[0] =='c') {   
        inBody[0] = 'm';   
    }   
    return inBody;   
}  
</set-body>

astaykov astaykov · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-22T10:46:31

What you look at is called Policy expressions and is well described on the official documentation here. A short quote from the site states:

Policy expressions syntax is C# 6.0. Each expression has access to the implicitly provided context variable and an allowed subset of .NET Framework types.

A more appropriate sample in the set-body samples would be the one that filters output:

<!-- Copy this snippet into the outbound section to remove a number of data elements from the response received from the backend service based on the name of the api product -->  
    <set-body>@{  
        var response = context.Response.Body.As<JObject>();  
        foreach (var key in new [] {"minutely", "hourly", "daily", "flags"}) {  
          response.Property (key).Remove ();  
        }  
        return response.ToString();  
      }  
    </set-body>

To customise that for your specific object - you want to remove the service property:

    <set-body>@{  
        var response = context.Response.Body.As<JObject>();  
        foreach (var key in new [] {"service"}) {  
          response.Property (key).Remove ();  
        }  
        return response.ToString();  
      }  
    </set-body>

Azure API Management Service Set body Policy - modify JSON response to return certain fields

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