Invoking SOAP service via an API in WSO2 APIManager

WSO2 APIManager provides  comprehensive features to support API management capabilities. Users can  publish APIs for REST and SOAP services. To test REST service, REST testing tools are available in API store. But for SOAP services there is no inbuilt tool to test the API. Users can use  any SOAP client to test the API. A simple easy to use tool is SOAPUI.

To test SOAP service api, user needs to set a http auth header to invoke api successfully.

There is no any difference  between REST service api and SOAP service api when creating,  publishing or subscribing to API. After generating an accesstoken, user can  use REST client to invoke API by setting "Authorization" header. 

Eg: Authorization: Bearer ozVF2bhIBnd6rgziVJNr1Vu0J54a

Same header has to be set as HTTP header in soap-ui too. Note that, this is not ws-security header.

Configuring WSO2 APIManager with Apache HTTP server for reverse proxy

Applies to : AM -  1.8.0

APIManager which has two web apps deployed by default which are api_publisher and api_store. When user needs to route the requests through a proxy server for publisher and store, he can do that by editing  site.json file which is available in AM_HOME/repository/deployment/server/jaggeryapps/store(/publisher)/site/conf folder.

Apache HTTP server

• Download and install HTTP server
• Check the default installation works fine for HTTP.
• Try like "http://localhost" you will see the default index page.
• To set SSL settings, edit the default http_ssl config file with the following settings. User has to create a new ssl cert/key for ssl communication. 

<VirtualHost _default_:443>

SSLEngine on

SSLCertificateFile /Users/ratha/WSO2/apachehttp/server.crt

SSLCertificateKeyFile /Users/ratha/WSO2/apachehttp/server.key

ProxyPreserveHost On

SSLProxyEngine on

# Proxy path which user wants to map with actual backend

ProxyPass /publicstore https://localhost:9443/store/

ProxyPassReverse /publicstore https://localhost:9443/store/

ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /store /publicstore

ProxyPass /publicpublisher https://localhost:9443/publisher/

ProxyPassReverse /publicpublisher  https://localhost:9443/publisher/

ProxyPassReverseCookiePath /publisher /publicpublisher

</VirtualHost>

• After editing the ssl configuration restart the http server. Try accessing "https://localhost", if settings are fine, user should be able to see the default index page.

site. json configuration

Edit the context and request-url parameters.

context- The url context

request_url- The original request url which hits the proxy server.

"context" : "/publicstore ",
"request_url":"https://localhost/publicstore ",

Now access the store page(/publisher ) using 'https://localhost/publicstore' and  the request  will be routed internally to 'https://localhost/store'