get map

Description

This command returns a result that indicates whether an input matches an entry in a map file. This is useful for debugging maps.

Examples

Assume that you have a map file named /etc/hapee-1.8/routes.map with the following contents where the first column contains the keys and the second contains the values:

/cart/     cart_api
/reviews/  reviews_api
/products/ products_api
/login/    login_api
/chat/     chat_servers

In the HAProxy Enterprise configuration, we reference this map file on a use_backend line with the map_beg fetch method. This tells the load balancer to choose the backend from the map file by matching the beginning of the requested URL path with a key in the file:

frontend fe_main
   bind :80
   use_backend %[path,map_beg(/etc/hapee-1.8/routes.map,be_servers)]

1. Use the show maps command to list map files and their unique IDs. Here, the map file /etc/hapee-1.8/routes.map has an ID of 0:

   $ echo "show map" | socat stdio tcp4-connect:127.0.0.1:9999
   # id (file) description
   0 (/etc/hapee-1.8/routes.map) pattern loaded from file '/etc/hapee-1.8/routes.map' used by map at file '/etc/hapee-1.8/hapee-lb.cfg' line 61

2. Pass that ID and an input string to get map to test whether the string would match any keys.

   Below, we test whether the input string /reviews/war-and-peace/1 matches any keys:

   $ echo "get map #0 /reviews/war-and-peace/1" | socat stdio tcp4-connect:127.0.0.1:9999
   type=beg, case=sensitive, found=yes, idx=tree, key="/reviews/", value="reviews_api", type="str"

   The result indicates that a match was found using the type beg, which means begins with. It matched the key /reviews/.

   You can also pass the map file's path to get the same result:

   $ echo "get map /etc/hapee-1.8/routes.map /reviews/war-and-peace/1" | socat stdio tcp4-connect:127.0.0.1:9999
   type=beg, case=sensitive, found=yes, idx=tree, key="/reviews/", value="reviews_api", type="str"

See also

• add map

• clear map

• del map

• set map

• show map