Title: Proposal for <switch/> mediator
Let's start with the syntax
<switch >
<xpath/>*
<regex/>*
</switch>
Note: "*" means 0 or N number of
mediators.
Description:
All the mediators available in Synapse,
<regex/> and <xpath/> can be considered as the
conditional mediators and all other mediators are static and
guarantee of doing some mediation work in line.
Say a scenario as follows,
<switch>
<xpaht dosomething1/>
<regex dosomething2/>
<regext dosomething3/>
<xpath dosomething4/>
</switch>
So if <regex dosomething2/> is
passed, all the other mediators thereafter will be ignored. So
"exactly one" mediator <regex/> or <xpath/> will be
invoked.
The possible disadvantage is, there is no default mediator to execute, if all the mediators in the list failed. Since all <switch/> can include <xpaths/>'s and <regex/>'s.
I feel this is as a
"extension" to Synapse rather being core feature.
Please comment.
Thank you
Saminda
