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Error handling- Digital Transformation with IBM API Connect

11 July, 2024 Henry Richardson 0 Comments 2 categories

Error handling involves handling custom error conditions and pre-defined error conditions. Examples of custom error conditions could be data validation faults (missing last-name, missing first-name, and so on) and business validation faults (typically arising from

Service chaining using double Invokes- Digital Transformation with IBM API Connect

11 June, 2024 Henry Richardson 0 Comments 2 categories

Under-fetching is a common symptom when services are created where the consumer needs to make multiple calls to obtain the results they desire. Service chaining in APIC can be created to handle such situations. You

NOTE: V10.0.1.5 ENHANCEMENTS- Digital Transformation with IBM API Connect

11 May, 2024 Henry Richardson 0 Comments 2 categories

The Invoke policy has introduced the ability to reuse HTTP connections through the persistent connection property. That was a comprehensive look at the Invoke policy and some of the crafty things you can do with

Accessing variables and properties in an Invoke Policy- Digital Transformation with IBM API Connect

11 April, 2024 Henry Richardson 0 Comments 2 categories

An Invoke policy’s target URL is often built using variables and properties. Earlier, in the Create an API Proxy section, you created a proxy that utilized a static backend URL containing a hardcoded patient-id value

Changing the HTTP method in the Invoke policy – Digital Transformation with IBM API Connect

11 March, 2024 Henry Richardson 0 Comments 2 categories

Typically, an API proxy’s operation’s method should match the backend service’s HTTP method. Sometimes you might come across a scenario where the backend service that you are proxying supports an HTTP method that is different

Handling error conditions on a failed invoke – Digital Transformation with IBM API Connect

11 February, 2024 Henry Richardson 0 Comments 3 categories

Within the Invoke policy, there are capabilities that instruct how the Invoke policy will behave on error conditions. A typical error condition would be a backend service that is experiencing slow response times. It is

Adding policies- Digital Transformation with IBM API Connect

11 January, 2024 Henry Richardson 0 Comments 3 categories

What are policies? Policies are pieces of configurations that invoke a specific type of action (depending on the type of policy) on a message. There are Built-in policies that come pre-packaged in the APIC solution.

API properties- Digital Transformation with IBM API Connect

11 December, 2023 Henry Richardson 0 Comments 3 categories

API properties are used by the gateway to control the behavior of policies. One of the most common uses for custom API properties is to specify environment-specific URLs. In a typical APIC configuration, each catalog

Testing your API Proxy- Digital Transformation with IBM API Connect

11 November, 2023 Henry Richardson 0 Comments 3 categories

It is time to test the API Proxy. Here’s how: Figure 4.15 – HTTP 200 response with payload 2. You can click on the Headers tab to see the header used or the Trace tab

Enabling API security- Digital Transformation with IBM API Connect

11 October, 2023 Henry Richardson 0 Comments 3 categories

Now that you have the security schemes for client_id and client_secret, it is time to use them in your API’s Security. You will remember from our earlier discussion that Security Scheme creation and security enforcement

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