URL Rewriter for digidp GmbH visit links

• Key Concepts
  • Url Writer
  • Circuit Breaker
  • Url Writer Strategies
  • Circuit Breaker Adapters
• Setup / Installation
• Examples

This library was created to allow digidip customers to rewrite their affiliate URLs into digidip affiliate URLs for tracking purchases etc. The library takes advantage of a circuit breaker methodology to help reduce the number of users being redirected via digidip's servers when a server or network issue exists. When a server outage is detected, the circuit will become open and all rewritten URLs will be returned as the original URL provided to the library.

If the circuit is open, it means that the transaction can not be tracked by digidip, although a majority of users will experience a positive redirection to the merchant's page instead of experiencing a error page.

Installation

You may install UrlRewriter via Composer:

composer require digidip/url-rewriter

Dependancies

If you wish to use the Memcached or Redis adapter you must install either PECL extensions:

• Redis (pecl install redis)
• Memcached (pecl install memcached)

Examples

// Basic example of the implementation.

$redis = new \Redis();
$redis->connect('....');

$adapter = new RedisCircuitBreakerAdapter($redis);
$circuit = new CircuitBreaker($adapter);
$rewriter = new UrlRewriter($circuit, new DigidipSubdomainRewriterStrategy('mydomain'));

$url = $rewriter->getUrl('http://www.merchant.com');

// ... $url is used elsewhere as part of your implementation...

For more check the examples directory.

Key Concepts

• An explanation of the circuit breaker pattern.
• When the failure count is zero, then the circuit is considered Closed.
• When the failure count is greater than zero, but less than the failure threshold, the circuit is considered Half-Open.
• When the failure count is greater than zero and equal to the failure threshold, the circuit is considered Open.
• When the circuit is Closed or Half-Open, the UrlRewriter theoretically will convert https://mymerchant.com to http://visit.digidip.net/visit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmymerchant.com.
• When the circuit is Open, the UrlRewriter will simply return https://mymerchant.com with no rewriter strategy being used.

Url Writer

This class is used to bind the Circuit Breaker and URL Writer strageies together, ideally you should only need to interact with this class in your existing code base. Reference Url Writer Strategies below for available strategies.

use digidip\UrlRewriter;

$urlRewriter = new UrlRewriter(
    // ... CircuitBreaker $circuitBreaker,
    // ... RewriterStrategy $strategy,
    // ... LoggerInterface $logger = null       (PSR Logger Instance)
);

$url = $urlRewriter->getUrl('https://www.a-merchant.com/'); // Return a URL whiuch is defined by the <Method>RewriterStrategy.

Circuit Breaker

The circuit breaker class is the responsible on whether the URL Rewriter should perform a URL rewrite or not. It minimal requirements are an adapter which provides the Circuit Breaker a mechanism to communicate with an external storage resource, such as a file, Redis, Memcache or any bespoke method which can be implemented with the CircuitBreakerAdapter interface. Reference Circuit Breaker Adapters below for available adapters.

use digidip\CircuitBreaker;
use digidip\Adapters\FilePathCircuitBreakerAdapter;

$adapter = new FilePathCircuitBreakerAdapter('/path/to/file.json');
$circuit = new CircuitBreaker(
    $adapter,
    // ... ?array $options = [],
    // ... ?string $url = null,                 For testing purposes
    // ... ?Client $client = null,              For testing purposes
    // ... ?LoggerInterface $logger = null      (PSR Logger Instance)
);

Circuit Breaker Options (?array $options = [])

• CircuitBreaker::OPTION_TIMEOUT - Number of milliseconds before the HTTP request will timeout and be considered a service failure. Default: 1000
• CircuitBreaker::OPTION_FAILURE_THRESHOLD - The amount of failures which must occur before opening the circuit. Default: 5
• CircuitBreaker::OPTION_OPENED_SAMPLE_RATE - The number of seconds between polling the service's availablity, once a single failure has been detected, this sample rate will be used. Default: 1
• CircuitBreaker::OPTION_CLOSED_SAMPLE_RATE - The number of seconds between polling the service's availablity while no failures are detected. Default: 5

Url Writer Strategies

Currently available stategies include:

• Standard Digidip Rewriter Strategy - DigidipRewriterStrategy(pid)
• Subdomain based Digidip Rewriter Strategy - DigidipSubdomainRewriterStrategy(subdomain)
• Template Rewriter - TemplateRewriterStrategy(url template)

Circuit Breaker Adapters

Currently available adapters include:

• File Path - FilePathCircuitBreakerAdapter(filepath)
• File reader and writer interfaces - FileCircuitBreakerAdapter(Reader, Writer), reference src/Modules/Filesystem for available Readers and Writers.
• Redis - RedisCircuitBreakerAdapter(\Redis instance)
• Memcached - MemcachedCircuitBreakerAdapter(\Memcached instance)