Copilot Response Formatting

[Susanta120]

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Hi there,
I am using GitHub Copilot since few months. I want to modify the copilot response. I am doing this by following way:

def response(flow: http.HTTPFlow) -> None:
     custom_content = {
            "message": "This is a custom response",
            "original_url": flow.request.pretty_url,
            "status": "success"
        }
        flow.response = http.Response.make(
            200,  # (optional) status code
            json.dumps(custom_content),  # content
            {"Content-Type": "application/json"}  # headers
        )

But in copilot chat nothing gets printed. Can anyone help me here.
Thanks in advance.

[theteladras]

Did you try to debug it, to see that you are capturing a request and that it is being executed?

Did you configure the proxy for your IDE maybe?

You should also be capturing only the relevant request for which you want to format the response.

You can also try the following sample, to manually format the captured github copilot response:

from mitmproxy import http
import json
import subprocess

def lint_code(code: str) -> str:
    result = subprocess.run(['pylint', '--from-stdin', 'dummy.py'], input=code.encode(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
    linted_code = result.stdout.decode('utf-8') if result.stdout else code
    return linted_code

def response(flow: http.HTTPFlow) -> None:
    if "copilot.github.com" in flow.request.host:
        try:
            response_data = json.loads(flow.response.content)
            original_code = response_data.get('choices', [{}])[0].get('text', '')

            linted_code = lint_code(original_code)

            response_data['choices'][0]['text'] = linted_code
            flow.response.content = json.dumps(response_data)
        except Exception as e:
            print(f"Error processing response: {e}")

[Susanta120]

Thanks @theteladras for reply.
I am able to capture the request.
Yes I have configured proxy in IDE.
Can you tell me how can I send custom message to the user like {"message":"Code is vulnerable"}.

[theteladras]

You should be able to do it with the following line:

response_data['message'] = "Code is vulnerable"

[Susanta120]

This is not working @theteladras

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