@Sajith, we already have those options you have mentioned in API Manager,
if we are publishing a new version of an API either we can choose to make
the users of the API to re-subscribe or we can automatically transfer over
the subscriptions from the previous version.

On 22 July 2015 at 14:25, Sajith Ariyarathna <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Uvindra,
>
> As pointed out by RuwanA, AppM had a similar problem when creating a new
> version of a web app based on an existing version. In AppM, when
> 'Publish'ing version *2.0.0* of web app *Foo* (which was created from
> *Foo* version *1.0.0*), version *1.0.0* is 'Un-publish'ed (because only
> one version of a web app is shown to end-users in the store) and subscriptions
> from version *1.0.0* are moved to version *2.0.0*. This is not exactly
> your situation in APIM, but you can see that subscriptions are moved to the
> new version when it is 'Publish'ed.
>
> Suggestion: you should give the option to the Publisher to decide whether
> to copy or move subscriptions to the new version. You can give 03 options,
> "Copy Subscriptions to v2.0.0", "Move Subscriptions to v2.0.0" and "Do
> Nothing". I believe it will improve the user experience for API Publisher.
>
> As suggested by RuwanA, keeping the 'parentID' in the asset or in the DB
> will also help to maintain a version hierarchy and in future releases you
> can use that data to do API grouping or to show a versioning tree.
>
> Thanks and Regards.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Ruwan Abeykoon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Uvindra,
>> What if we keep the "parent" apiID in the asset itself, rather than in
>> new DB column. (by adding the field to api.rxt)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ruwan
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Uvindra Dias Jayasinha <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The correct way I can think of solving this is to store the apiID of the
>>> version that is being copied from in the newly created api object so that
>>> we can make the association later on when we are publishing the new api
>>> version.
>>>
>>> This means we will need to add a new column to the AM_API table to store
>>> this, hence Im trying to see if  there is an alternative.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22 July 2015 at 12:38, Uvindra Dias Jayasinha <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the suggestion Ruwan, but we are not on ES yet and wont be
>>>> for sometime so we wont be able to exploit that feature.
>>>>
>>>> On 22 July 2015 at 12:32, Ruwan Abeykoon <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Uvindra,
>>>>> We are having same issue and being solved in AppM 1.1.0. We were
>>>>> informed that ES 2.0 has grouping capability. So we may be exploit that to
>>>>> correlate versions. We plan to back-port some ES 2.0 functions to ES 1
>>>>> branch to get this done.
>>>>>
>>>>> SajithAR working on this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Ruwan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Uvindra Dias Jayasinha <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This applies to API Manager 1.9.0, but this is true for previous
>>>>>> versions as well. When trying to fix the following ticket[1] I came 
>>>>>> across
>>>>>> this scenario,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    1. API named *"foo"* with versions *"1.0.0"* and *"2.0.0"* has
>>>>>>    existing subscriptions.
>>>>>>    2. Create a new version of the same API *"3.0.0"* from *"2.0.0"*.
>>>>>>    3. Publish API *"foo:3.0.0"* with the "Require  Re-Subscription"
>>>>>>    option disabled.
>>>>>>    4. What should happen is that the subscriptions of *"foo:2.0.0"*
>>>>>>    should be applied to *"foo:3.0.0" *automatically
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem is step *2 *and *3* above are separate so there is
>>>>>> currently no association between *"foo:2.0.0"* and *"foo:3.0.0"*.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So how do we determine which API version *"foo:3.0.0"* was created
>>>>>> from so that we can transfer that APIs subscriptions at the time of
>>>>>> publishing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a way to do this without adding a new attribute to the newly
>>>>>> created API to indicate whihc version it was copied from?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APIMANAGER-3971
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>>>>>> Uvindra
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> *Ruwan Abeykoon*
>>>>> *Architect,*
>>>>> *WSO2, Inc. http://wso2.com <http://wso2.com/> *
>>>>> *lean.enterprise.middleware.*
>>>>>
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>>>>> phone:(+94) 777739736
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Uvindra
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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