Hi Hiranya, On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Hiranya Jayathilaka <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Miyuru, > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Miyuru <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> This mail is regarding https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNAPSE-567. >> Currently when we defining leaf endpoints of loadbalance/failover endpoint >> we have to explicitly define full url of the endpoint. >> However in most loadbalance/failover scenarios endpoints are like >> {IP_X}:{PORT_A}/services/MyService >> {IP_Y}:{PORT_B}/services/MyService >> {IP_Z}:{PORT_C}/services/MyService >> >> Proposed solution is, configure addresss endpoint like this >> >> <endpoint> >> <address uri="https://localhost:8852/$INCOMING_URL_PATH";> >> </address> >> </endpoint> >> >> > I'm not convinced that this approach makes it 'easier' to configure a load > balance endpoint. From the user perspective the user has to repeatedly > specify the string '$INCOMING_URL_PATH' in the address endpoints instead of > 'services/MyService'. > > And besides we currently have a very clean design for endpoints.They simply > represent EPRs to which messages can be sent to - and that's all they do. > IMO message processing logic such as URL rewriting should be done > separately. May be what we are looking for is a URL rewrite mediator which > can deal with regular expressions and URL rewrite rules. Such a mediator > should provide access to the segments of the original URL through > expressions such as ${host}, ${port}, ${path} etc. Then one can do a simple > URL rewrite as follows: > > <URLRewrite expression="${protocol}://some.host:8080/${path}"/> > <send/> > > Now this is a more generic thing that we can use anywhere in the Synapse > configuration (sequences, proxies etc). > > I agree with you. URL rewrite mediator will be a proper solution for this. > Thanks, > Hiranya > > >> and replace path of the url ("services/MyService") with $INCOMING_URL_PATH. >> Is this a proper solution? Else we can upgrade default endpoint to rewrite >> address using regular expression which is more flexible solution. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> -- >> Miyuru Daminda Wanninayaka >> Software Engineer - WSO2 Inc. >> > > > > -- > Hiranya Jayathilaka > Software Engineer; > > WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org > E-mail: [email protected]; Mobile: +94 77 633 3491 > Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com > -- Miyuru Daminda Wanninayaka Software Engineer - WSO2 Inc.
