body_filter_by_lua does not work with echo_location

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Przemysław Sobala

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Jan 25, 2023, 4:39:13 AM1/25/23
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Hello
The following configuration does not work - ngx.arg[1] is empty all the time and the "xxx" response body is returned to client. I'd expect the body_filter_by_lua to change the response body to "XXX".

server {
   server_name test.localhost;

   location /source {
       return 200 "xxx";
   }
   location / {
      echo_location /source;

      # update response body
      body_filter_by_lua_block {
         ngx.log(ngx.ERR, "[body_filter_by_lua_block] ngx.arg[1]: "..ngx.arg[1])
         ngx.arg[1] = string.upper(ngx.arg[1])
      }
   }

}

logged messages:
2023/01/25 10:16:51 [error] 8#8: *1 [lua] body_filter_by_lua:2: [body_filter_by_lua_block] ngx.arg[1]: , client: 127.0.0.1, server: test.localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "test.localhost"
2023/01/25 10:16:51 [error] 8#8: *1 [lua] body_filter_by_lua:2: [body_filter_by_lua_block] ngx.arg[1]: , client: 127.0.0.1, server: test.localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "test.localhost"

nginx version: 1.22.0
ngx_http_echo_module version: master from git
ngx_http_lua_module version: v0.10.19
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Przemysław Sobala

Yichun Zhang

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Jan 31, 2023, 7:47:10 PM1/31/23
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Hello!

The body_filter_by_lua_block directive does not work with merged nginx
subquests like in your example. Nginx subrequests are really painful.
You can avoid using subrequests in your configuration.

Best,
Yichun

Przemysław Sobala

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Feb 6, 2023, 5:22:00 AM2/6/23
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Hello!
My configuration is the simplest one I could provide to show the problem. What I want to accomplish is to wrap "location /source" with "error_page" to switch upstream (not upstream's server) on 404:

location /source {
    proxy_pass http://upstream1;
    error_page 404 = @fallback;
}

location @fallback {
    proxy_pass http://upstream2;
}

and then filter the response body:

location / {
   echo_location /source;

   # update response body
   body_filter_by_lua_block {
      ngx.arg[1] = string.upper(ngx.arg[1])
   }
}

error_page directive works but body_filter_by_lua does not trigger.

Junlong Li

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Feb 13, 2023, 2:02:21 AM2/13/23
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you can use the  proxy_next_upstream  proxy_next_upstream_triesand balancer_by_lua_block

here is an example of the balancer_by_lua_block 

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