@tyk-technologies/tyk-plugin-types

TypeScript ambient type declarations for the Tyk gateway's JSVM plugin runtime.

These types describe the API exposed inside the gateway when authoring custom middleware in JavaScript / TypeScript. They cover both the legacy otto driver and the modern goja driver — both expose the same globals (TykJS, TykMakeHttpRequest, log, ...) and pass the same struct shapes across the Go↔JS boundary.

Install

npm install --save-dev @tyk-technologies/tyk-plugin-types

Use

Add a triple-slash directive at the top of your plugin entry file:

/// <reference types="@tyk-technologies/tyk-plugin-types" />

var handler = new TykJS.TykMiddleware.NewMiddleware({});

handler.NewProcessRequest(function (
  request: TykRequest,
  session: TykSession,
  config: TykConfig
): TykHandlerResult {
  request.SetHeaders["X-Hello"] = "world";
  return handler.ReturnData(request, {});
});

Or, if you'd rather not use a triple-slash directive, add the package to compilerOptions.types in tsconfig.json:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "types": ["@tyk-technologies/tyk-plugin-types"]
  }
}

What's covered

• TykJS.TykMiddleware.NewMiddleware — middleware constructor and the four return helpers (ReturnData, ReturnAuthData, ReturnResponseData, NewProcessRequest, NewProcessResponse).
• Request / response / session / config shapes (TykRequest, TykResponse, TykSession, TykAccessDefinition, TykConfig, TykReturnOverrides, TykHandlerResult).
• Globals registered by the gateway (TykMakeHttpRequest, TykGetKeyData, TykSetKeyData, TykBatchRequest, log, rawlog, b64enc, b64dec, rawb64enc, rawb64dec).
• Helper types for the JSON-string contracts (TykHttpRequestSpec, TykHttpResponseRaw).
• Manifest constants (TykPluginDriver, TykMiddlewareHook).

Versioning

These types track the gateway's JS-side API surface. Breaking changes in the gateway runtime that affect the surface will produce a major version bump here.

Authoring & testing

A starter project that demonstrates how to author, build, and unit-test plugins against these types lives at tyk-plugin-starter.

License

Apache 2.0