Appreciate your feedback on this.

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Abimaran Kugathasan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Sumedha,
>
> In Current APIM, following are the status of a API Subscriptions
>
> BLOCKED, PROD_ONLY_BLOCKED, UNBLOCKED, ON_HOLD, REJECTED
>
> Consider following scenario/use case and relevant status of API
> subscriptions
>
> 1. An Application subscribes an API              -  UNBLOCKED
>
> 2. Publisher blocks the Application                - BLOCKED
>
> 3. Application unsubscribes the API              - The entry will be
> removed from DB
>
> 4. Same Application subscribes to same API - UNBLOCKED (A new entry in the
> DB)
>
> In this case, the Application was blocked by the publisher. Since we have
> deleted the entry from DB, Application can invoke the API after re
> subscribing to the API
>
> With this implementation (keeping one status for API subscriptions), there
> can be multiple scenarios having same problem.
>
> So, we have to introduce two status for API subscription.
>
> 1. One for keeping the application state - SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE
>
> 2. Another for keeping publisher's action on the subscription -
> BLOCK/UNBLOCK/PROD_ONLY_BLOCKED
>
> With the introduction of these two status, please find the new status for
> the above use case.
>
> 1. An Application subscribes to an API          -  SUBSCRIBE,UNBLOCKED
>
> 2. Publisher blocks the Application                - SUBSCRIBE,BLOCKED
>
> 3. Application unsubscribes the API              - UNSUBSCRIBE,BLOCKED
>
> 4. Same Application subscribes to same API - SUBSCRIBE,BLOCKED
>
> So, even the application re subscribing to API, it can't invoke.
>
> Here we don't delete any subscription entries from DB. So we can find the
> history of the subscription of a API
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks
> Abimaran Kugathasan
>
> Software Engineer | WSO2 Inc
> Data & APIs Technologies Team
> Mobile : +94 77 1708229
>
> <http://stackoverflow.com/users/515034>
> <http://lk.linkedin.com/in/abimaran>
> <http://www.lkabimaran.blogspot.com/>  <https://github.com/abimaran>
> <https://twitter.com/abimaran>
>
>


-- 
Thanks
Abimaran Kugathasan

Software Engineer | WSO2 Inc
Data & APIs Technologies Team
Mobile : +94 77 1708229

<http://stackoverflow.com/users/515034>
<http://lk.linkedin.com/in/abimaran>  <http://www.lkabimaran.blogspot.com/>
<https://github.com/abimaran>  <https://twitter.com/abimaran>
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