Wrap up of external api response in order to meet the datasource backend requirements

Hi,

I’m trying to create a grafana datasource plugin which is to return a response with table type format.
There is a third party rest API which should provide data to the datasource, however, the request/response format of this external API do not conform with the example simple-json-datasource plugin urls and requests formats.
Is there a way I could wrap up the external api response in the datasource backend methods (/query) which is then called by the front-end part of datasource? (external api URL will be provided at the datasource settings UI while adding the datasource)
I’ll appreciate your suggestions/guidance on this.
Thanks!