How to avoid web application deployment faliures due to deployment listener class loading issue. - WSO2 Application Server

WSO2 Application server can be use to deploy web applications and services. For some advance use cases we might need to handle deployment tasks and post deployment tasks. There can be listeners defined globally in repository/conf/tomcat/web.xml to achieve this as follows.

<listener>
  <listener-class>com.test.task.handler.DeployEventGenerator</listener-class>
</listener>

When we deploy web application to WSO2 Application Server sometimes class loading environment can be changed. To fix this we can deploy the webapp with "Carbon" class loading environment. For some use cases we are shipping CXF/Spring dependencies within the web application so any class loader environment other than "CXF" might fail. 

To fix this we need to add file named webapp-classloading.xml to META-INF. Then content should be as follows.

<Classloading xmlns="http://wso2.org/projects/as/classloading">
   <Environments>Carbon</Environments>
</Classloading>

How to avoid dipatching Admin service calls to ELB services - WSO2 ELB

We can front WSO2 services by WSO2 ELB. If we have this kind of deployment all requests to services should route through WSO2 ELB. Some scenarios we might need to invoke admin services deployed in servers through ELB. If you send request to some of back end servers admin service load balancer will try to find that service it self. To avoid that we need to define different service path. So admin services in ELB can access through defined service path and other services will not mix up with it.

For this Then we can change ELB's service context to /elbservices/. Edit  servicePath property in axis2.xml as follows.

<parameter name="servicePath">elbservices</parameter>

How to retrive property and process/iterate them in synapse using xpath and script mediator - WSO2 ESB

Sometimes we need to retrieve properties and manipulate them according to custom requirement. For this i can suggest you two approaches.



01. Retrieve roles list and fetch them using script mediator.

//Store Roles into message context
 <property name="ComingRoles" expression="get-property('transport','ROLES')"/>

//Or you can you following if property is already set to default message context
 <property name="ComingRoles" expression="get-property(''ROLES')"/>


//process them inside script mediator
<script language="js">
            var rolelist = mc.getProperty('ComingRoles');
//Process rolelist and set roles or required data to message context as follows. Here we set same role set
            mc.setProperty('processedRoles',rolelist);
</script>
 <log>
            <property name="Processed Roles List" expression="get-property('processedRoles')"/>
</log>

02. Retrieve roles list and fetch them using xpath support provided.

//Retrive incoming role list
  <property name="ComingRoles" expression="get-property('transport','ROLES')"/>

//Or you can you following if property is already set to default message context
 <property name="ComingRoles" expression="get-property(''ROLES')"/>

//Fetch roles one by one using xpath operations
         <property name="Role1"
                   expression="fn:substring-before(get-property('ComingRoles'),',')"/>
         <property name="RemainingRoles"
                   expression="fn:substring-after(get-property('transport','ROLES'),',')"/>

//Fetch roles one by one using xpath operations
         <property name="Role2"
                   expression="fn:substring-before(get-property('RemainingRoles'),',')"/>
         <property name="RemainingRoles"
                   expression="fn:substring-after(get-property('RemainingRoles'),',')"/>

//Fetch roles one by one using xpath operations
         <property name="Role3" expression="(get-property('RemainingRoles'))"/>

//Then log all properties using log mediator
         <log>
            <property name="testing" expression="get-property('Role1')"/>
         </log>
         <log>
            <property name="testing" expression="get-property('Role2')"/>
         </log>
         <log>
            <property name="testing" expression="get-property('Role3')"/>
         </log>

//Check whether roles list having String "sanjeewa". If so we will set isRolesListHavingSanjeewa as true else its false.
         <log>
            <property name="isRolesListHavingSanjeewa"
                      expression="fn:contains(get-property('transport','ROLES'),'sanjeewa')"/>
         </log>

You will find xpath expressions and sample here(http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_functions.asp)