Dad Jokes Microservice

Just a sample humurous microservice or echo service used for testing API Gateways such as Kong, Kubernetes K8s, Openshift, Docker, Service meshes such as Kuma or Istio, etc. as an alternative to httpbin. Feel free to add your own jokes to this repo as well. In addition to a dad joke, the service will optionally echo back information about the incoming request. This is helpful for testing and troubleshooting things like API gateways or proxies. See below for instructions on how to enable echoing per request or by default.

Hosted Service / Demo

Access http://dadjokes.online to see the service in action.

Usage

Endpoint URI : /

Method : GET POST PUT PATCH DELETE

Parameters : optional

Successful Response : 200 OK

{
  "Joke": {
    "Opener": "What did one wall say to the other wall?",
    "Punchline": "I'll meet you at the corner.",
    "Processing Time": "0.000537"
  },
  "DadJokesInfo": {
    "SourceCode": "https://github.com/yesinteractive/dadjokes",
    "Version": "20250315"
  }
}

ENABLING THE ECHO FEATURE

To enable the echoing of in the incoming request back into the response, simply add the docker environment variable DADJOKES_NOECHO=FALSE to your configuration or simply use the /echo anywhere in your request calls or as part of a query string. For example:

Endpoint URI : /echo/abc/efg/

Method : GET POST PUT PATCH DELETE

Parameters : optional

Successful Response : 200 OK

{
  "Joke": {
    "Opener": "What do you call a deer with no eyes?",
    "Punchline": "No idea!",
    "Processing Time": "0.000434"
  },
  "RequestEcho": {
    "Headers": {
      "Host": "somehost.com",
      "Connection": "keep-alive",
      "sec-ch-ua": "\"Chromium\";v=\"134\", \"Not:A-Brand\";v=\"24\", \"Google Chrome\";v=\"134\"",
      "sec-ch-ua-mobile": "?0",
      "sec-ch-ua-platform": "\"Windows\"",
      "DNT": "1",
      "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
      "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
      "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7",
      "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br, zstd",
      "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
      "Cookie": "mycooking=myvalue;"
    },
    "Method": "GET",
    "Origin": "123.45.67.123",
    "URI": "/echo/abc/efg/",
    "Arguments": {
      "uri": "/echo/abc/efg/"
    },
    "Data": "",
    "URL": "https://somehost.com/echo/abc/efg/"
  },
  "DadJokesInfo": {
    "SourceCode": "https://github.com/yesinteractive/dadjokes",
    "Version": "20250315"
  }
}

BEHIND REVERSE PROXY CONFIGURATION

If behind an API gateway or reverse proxy, you may wish to have only the URI of the original request echoed back and not the URI of the upstream proxy target. To do this you may add the docker environment variable DADJOKES_BEHIND_PROXY=TRUE to your configuration or set the global behind_proxyconfiguration to true in the config/fsl_config.php file.

Installation

Deployment Examples

See usage examples for Kubernetes, Kong for Kubernetes Ingress Controller, and docker-compose in the examples directory folder.

With Docker

Docker image is Alpine 3.11 based running PHP 7.3 on Apache. The containter exposes both ports 8100 (HTTP) an 8143 (HTTPS) with a self signed certificated. If you wish to alter the container configuration, feel free to use the Dockerfile in this repo (https://github.com/yesinteractive/dad-jokes_microservice/blob/master/Dockerfile). Otherwise, you can pull the latest image from DockerHub with the following command:

docker pull yesinteractive/dadjokes

Typical basic usage (below example exposes dadjokes on host ports 8100 and 8143 and enables auto echo of request data):

$ docker run -d \
  -p 8100:8100 \
  -p 8143:8143 \
  -e DADJOKES_NOECHO=FALSE \
  yesinteractive/dadjokes

Typical usage in Dockerfile:

FROM yesinteractive/dadjokes
RUN echo <your commands here>