Example project extending the AILERON Gateway

This project extend the AILERON Gateway by importing it to Go project.

graph BT
    AG("<a style="color:#000" href='https://github.com/aileron-gateway/aileron-gateway'>aileron-gateway</a>")
    EE("example-extension</br>(This repository)")
    EE -- import ---> AG
    style EE fill:#ffcce5,stroke:#ff7fbf

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To build and run the example, follow the steps.

• Prepare development environment
  • 1. Install Protoc
  • 2. Install protoc-gen-go
  • 3. protovalidate
• Write code
• Build binary
  • 1. Generate Go code from proto
  • 2. Build binary
• Run binary

Prepare development environment

1. Install Protoc

AILERON Gateway uses protocol buffer to define configuration file interfaces. protoc command is required to generate Go codes from *.proto definitions.

Follow the Protocol Buffer Compiler Installation and install protoc command.

$ protoc --version
libprotoc 29.0

If you are working on linux, directory structure may becomes like follows.

/usr/
└── local/
    ├── bin/
    │   └── protoc
    └── include/
        └── google/

2. Install protoc-gen-go

To generate Go codes from protoc definitions, protoc-gen-go command is required.

Follow the Quick start Go to install protoc-gen-go.

Or, just run the following installation command.

go install "google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@latest"

3. protovalidate

AILERON Gateway uses protovalidate to apply configuration validation. We need to import validate.proto

In this project, validate.proto is already copied into the ./proto/buf/.

Write code

• Example middleware is in ./feature/hello/.
• Example protoc is in ./proto/ext/v1/.

The example middleware adds Hello: World!! to the HTTP response headers.

Build binary

1. Generate Go code from proto

protoc should be run to generate go codes from proto definition.

The command becomes

protoc \
  --proto_path ./proto
  --proto_path=<PATH_TO_AILERON_GATEWAY_REPOSITORY>/proto/
  --plugin=protoc-gen-go=<ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO protoc-gen-go>
  --go_out=./
  --go_opt=module="github.com/aileron-gateway/example-extension"
  <ALL_PROTOC_PATH>

For convenience, the command can be run with ./Makefile.

go get ./... # Download aileron-gateway repository.
make proto

2. Build binary

Just run go build to generate example-extension or example-extension.exe.

go build ./

Or, this is recommended one.

export CGO_ENABLED=0
go build -trimpath -ldflags="-w -s -extldflags '-static'" ./

Run binary

./config.yaml is a sample configuration.

It runs a reverse proxy server which proxy requests to http://httpbin.org.

Run the reverse proxy server with the command.

./example-extension -f config.yaml

Then, send a HTTP request.

curl --head -X GET "http://localhost:8080/get"

The Hello: World!! header which is added by the ./feature/hello/ exists in the header.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Length: 309
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:05:51 GMT
Hello: World!!
Server: gunicorn/19.9.0