Automatically transform webhook payloads

In Webhook Relay you can automatically transform webhook payloads using functions that is basically a Lua code snippet to manipulate the payload. While powerful, it requires you to write the code yourself. Now, we are introducing a new feature that allows you to automatically transform webhook payloads using AI.

You will need to provide two examples:

• Input payload (that you want to transform)
• Output payload (that you want to receive)

We will use this to automatically generate the transformation function that will run on every webhook.

Go to the magic transform page.

Now, you will need to provide input and output payload samples. For this example we will use a simple JSON to demonstrate how it works. You can view more complex examples within the dashboard as well.

The key thing to remember is that the input and output payload values should match.

Input sample:

{
  "name": "John",
  "surname": "Doe",
  "age": 30,
  "city": "London"
}

Output sample (good):

{ 
  "data_type": "person",
  "person": {
    "name": "John",
    "surname": "Doe",
    "age": 30,
    "city": "London"
  }
}

Output sample (bad):

{
  "name": "Larry",
  "surname": "Sheet"
}

Let’s add the samples and click “generate function”:

Once generated, we can click continue and enter the destination URL. Feel free to grab a new testing endpoint from https://bin.webhookrelay.com/.

You can either click “send a test request” or use curl to ping the endpoint

On the receiving end, you should see the transformed payload:

It means we have successfully transformed the payload from our initial payload to the new format.

If the function generation is failing, try to check the following:

• Input and output payloads should have matching values (names, types, etc.)
• Input and output payloads should be valid JSON. We will introduce support for XML, form-data, and other formats in the future. If you have a use case for it, let us know. You can still use the function editor for that.
• Try different examples if one doesn’t work. You can also remove any irrelevant values from JSON structures.