Friday, February 15, 2013

Accessing registry resources from class mediator in wso2esb

In the mediation process, users might need to access the registry resources, which are stored in the governance/config registries in wso2esb.
In the normal sequence flow, we could point the resources as registry keys in the mediators. But if we want to access them in a class mediator, where we may need to do custom process on the resource, we could retrieve the "WSO2Registry" instance from the  "SynapseConfiguration" and from the registry instance we could access different resources which are stored in the different registries.

Likewise if we have a 'LocalEntry' defined in the synapse configuration we could retrieve it from the "LocalRegistry". LocalEntries  are elements, used to declare registry entries that are local to the ESB instance. They are static resources and has high priority than a resource with the same name  hosted in embedded wso2registry.

Here is a sample class mediator, which can be used to retrieve a LocalEntry and resources hosted in governance/config registry.
import org.apache.synapse.MessageContext;
import org.apache.synapse.config.Entry;
import org.apache.synapse.mediators.AbstractMediator;
import org.apache.synapse.registry.Registry;
public class CustomRegistryRetriveMediator extends AbstractMediator {
   
    public boolean mediate(MessageContext synapseMsgContext) {

        // if localentry "
testLocalentry" defined in synapse econfig
        Entry localEntryObj = (Entry) synapseMsgContext.getConfiguration()
                .getLocalRegistry().get("testLocalentry");
        System.out.println(" value: " + localEntryObj.getValue());
        System.out.println(" Filename : " + localEntryObj.getFileName());

        // goverance/config registry
        Registry regInstance = synapseMsgContext.getConfiguration()
                .getRegistry();                       
        Object obj=regInstance.getResource(new Entry("gov:/test1.txt"),null);       
        Object obj2=regInstance.getResource(new Entry("conf:/test2.txt"),null);   
       
        return true;
    }
}

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

XML validation against schema

We could use simple online tools to validate xml files against a single schema. But if we have more than one schema files, which are sub schemas of the base schema,  needed to validate a single xml file, we could use some other  tools which are availble freely.
I used libxml which works better. But for windows-64 bit platform, binary distribution is not available. We need to compile the source files. For linux, compilation would be easy.

Run xmllint from the "bin" folder

# xmllint --noout --schema <BASE_XSD_FILE>  <XML_FILE_TO_BE_VALIDATED>

If there are any errors it will be shown in the command prompt.