I'd come across the same issues you are experiencing and had been looking for a solution to the $input.path() issue. Turns out to retrieve JSON you can use $in

I'd come across the same issues you are experiencing and had been looking for a solution to the $input.path() issue. Turns out to retrieve JSON you can use $input.json(). Full details are on the AWS documentation page. Not sure if this has been newly added as I only found it today. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/api-gateway-mapping-template-reference.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/...