On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Nuwan Dias <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>> Gateways can receive subscription data in 2 ways.
>>
>> 1) Load all subscription data at server startup
>>
>> For this, APIM Core component will have a service to return all
>> subscriptions of all APIs.
>>
>
> I think this API should accept the number of Subs to load on startup. In
> the initial version we will support 0 and all only. 0 being the default
> (which means we load Subs on demand). Moving forward we can enhance this by
> using different policies such as 'most recent', 'most used', etc.
>
>>
>> 2) Load subscription data on-demand depending on the API requests it
>> receives.
>>
>> For this, APIM Core component will have a service to return subscriptions
>> of a given API.
>>
>
Are we going to create a new service for above ? As an alternative we can
consider using Store REST API to fetch the subscription details. Advantages
include one less API to maintain, it is already protected with OAuth and it
has/can support above cases.

Thanks
Jo





>
>> In either case, gateways store received subscription data in an in-memory
>> data structure. Therefore, gateways should receive subscription updates
>> (new subscriptions/unsubscribe notifications etc.) too. We are planning to
>> do this using a JMS topic. (This will not be limited to JMS and will be
>> configurable later.) When there are any updates to subscriptions, APIM Core
>> component will add that information to a topic, to which gateways are
>> subscribed to. Then gateways can update their subscription data which they
>> have stored in memory.
>>
>> Then we will have a handler at the gateway (most probably the Key
>> validation handler itself) to use stored subscription data to validate
>> subscriptions of incoming requests.
>>
>>
>> Note: The subscription data received by the gateway from APIM core will
>> contain certain API and Application related information as well. The reason
>> is that we have decided to generate JWT tokens at gateway nodes. So we need
>> those data to include in the JWT.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> *Bhathiya Jayasekara*
>> *Senior Software Engineer,*
>> *WSO2 inc., http://wso2.com <http://wso2.com>*
>>
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> Nuwan Dias
>
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