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Customising Responses

Customising Responses

Here, you'll learn how to send a web form as a response for API Gateway!

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API Gateway expects responses in a specific format from Lambda Proxy integrations. The response needs to be a JSON object containing these fields:

  • statusCode should be a number containing the numeric HTTP response code. The number 200 means OK.
  • body should be a string representing the response contents.
  • headers is an optional argument​ and can contain a map of HTTP response headers.

SAM assumes that you’ll use API Gateway to create JSON APIs, so unless the response provides a content type, it assumes that you’ll be sending back a serialised JSON ...