Getting json body in aws Lambda via API gateway

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There are two different Lambda integrations you can configure in API Gateway:

  1. Lambda non-proxy integration (docs), also called Lambda custom integration
  2. Lambda proxy integration (docs)

For Lambda non-proxy integration, you can customise what you are going to pass to Lambda in the payload that you don’t need to parse the body, but when you are using Lambda Proxy integration in API Gateway, API Gateway will proxy everything to Lambda in payload like this:

{
    "message": "Hello me!",
    "input": {
        "path": "/test/hello",
        "headers": {
            "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8",
            "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, lzma, sdch, br",
            "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.8",
            "CloudFront-Forwarded-Proto": "https",
            "CloudFront-Is-Desktop-Viewer": "true",
            "CloudFront-Is-Mobile-Viewer": "false",
            "CloudFront-Is-SmartTV-Viewer": "false",
            "CloudFront-Is-Tablet-Viewer": "false",
            "CloudFront-Viewer-Country": "US",
            "Host": "wt6mne2s9k.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",
            "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
            "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.82 Safari/537.36 OPR/39.0.2256.48",
            "Via": "1.1 fb7cca60f0ecd82ce07790c9c5eef16c.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)",
            "X-Amz-Cf-Id": "nBsWBOrSHMgnaROZJK1wGCZ9PcRcSpq_oSXZNQwQ10OTZL4cimZo3g==",
            "X-Forwarded-For": "192.168.100.1, 192.168.1.1",
            "X-Forwarded-Port": "443",
            "X-Forwarded-Proto": "https"
        },
        "pathParameters": {"proxy": "hello"},
        "requestContext": {
            "accountId": "123456789012",
            "resourceId": "us4z18",
            "stage": "test",
            "requestId": "41b45ea3-70b5-11e6-b7bd-69b5aaebc7d9",
            "identity": {
                "cognitoIdentityPoolId": "",
                "accountId": "",
                "cognitoIdentityId": "",
                "caller": "",
                "apiKey": "",
                "sourceIp": "192.168.100.1",
                "cognitoAuthenticationType": "",
                "cognitoAuthenticationProvider": "",
                "userArn": "",
                "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.82 Safari/537.36 OPR/39.0.2256.48",
                "user": ""
            },
            "resourcePath": "/{proxy+}",
            "httpMethod": "GET",
            "apiId": "wt6mne2s9k"
        },
        "resource": "/{proxy+}",
        "httpMethod": "GET",
        "queryStringParameters": {"name": "me"},
        "stageVariables": {"stageVarName": "stageVarValue"},
        "body": "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}",
        "isBase64Encoded": false
    }
}

For the example you are referencing, it is not getting the body from the original request. It is constructing the response body back to API Gateway. It should be in this format:

{
    "statusCode": httpStatusCode,
    "headers": { "headerName": "headerValue", ... },
    "body": "...",
    "isBase64Encoded": false
}

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