Accessing various information of a message in a mediation flow in WSO2ESB

Property mediator helps us to access various information of a message ,which passes through ESB. Within a sequence , we could use property mediator to get info about a message.
We can assign a value to a property as a string value or using xpath expression. Two actions are defined for property mediator.

• Set
• Remove

eg:

 <property name="MESSAGE" value="Executing in sequence"/>
 <property xmlns:m="http://sample.com"   name="test"   expression="//m:getQuote/m:symbol"
                   scope="default"  type="STRING"/>

We can use supported xpath functions,such as mathematical/logical operations and other predefined functions can be used to assign values in the property mediator.

eg: 

<property xmlns:ns="http://org.apache.synapse/xsd"   name="testProp"
                expression="fn:concat('hello','world')"   scope="default"/>

We can use  built in get-property() xpath function to read properties,which are available in the synapse messagecontext.
Eg: If a property "SYSTEM_TIME" available in the synapse message context; 

<property xmlns:ns="http://org.apache.synapse/xsd"   name="systemtime"
                expression="get-property('SYATEM_TIME')"   scope="default"/>

We can use property mediator to set values in different scopes, which can be accessed in those specific scope. There are 4 scopes,which are;

• synapse/default : This property will be available in both insequence and outsequence.
• axis2 : This property will be available in the particular sequence. can be retrieved from Axsi2Messagecontext.
• transport:  This scope is used to set a property in the transport header.
• axis2-client: Like "axis2" scope, but can be  retrieved form the Axis2Messagecontext.options.

eg:

<property name="myProp" value="abc" scope="default" type="STRING"/>
<property name="myProp" value="abc" scope="transport" type="STRING"/>
<property name="myProp" value="abc" scope="axis2" type="STRING"/> 
<property name="myProp" value="abc" scope="axis2-client" type="STRING"/>

When we retrieve properties from a specific scope;
eg:

 <property xmlns:ns="http://org.apache.synapse/xsd"    name="remotehost"
                    expression="get-property('axis2', 'REMOTE_HOST')"/>

There are some predefined xpath properties , which we can use directly to retrieve some common properties.

• $axis2: Used to get the property at the axis2 scope.

 eg :
 <property name="MessageType is" expression="$axis2:messageType"/>

• $trp: Used to get transport header properties.

eg:
 <property name="axis2Prop" expression="$trp:Content-Type"/>

• $ctx : Used to get synapse scope properties;

eg:
 If we have a property named as "myProp" in synapse scope, which can be retrieved in the following manner;
 <property name="testProp" expression="$ctx:myProp"/>

• $url : Used to retrieve parameters defined in the url

  eg:
For a request url; http:// localhost:8280/getSimpleQuote?symbol=IBM

<property name="symbol" expression="$url:symbol"/>
The above will retrieve the symbol value; ie:IBM