Hi Asanka, you can send your PR to master branch.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Asanka Dissanayake <asan...@wso2.com> wrote: > Thanks Chanaka, will do. > What is the branch I should send the pull request ? > > Thanks, > Asanka D > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:21 AM, Chanaka Fernando <chana...@wso2.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Asanka, >> >> I had a look into the feature set and it looks really useful. Please send >> us a PR and we will include this in a future ESB release. >> >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Asanka Dissanayake <asan...@wso2.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> I am developing a new Mediator for ESB as a pet project. After noticing >>> some draw backs in Payload Factory I thought of writing this one. >>> >>> Code can be found at : >>> https://github.com/asanka88/VelocityTemplateMediator >>> >>> @ESB Team: >>> If this make any sense, I am more than happy to contribute this with >>> more improvements. This is still under development. I will upload samples >>> soon. Your feedback is highly appreciated. >>> Why Velocity Template Mediator ? >>> >>> Currently synapse comes with built in payloadFactory mediator. But there >>> are several drawbacks in it. >>> >>> 1 Doesn’t support arrays : You cannot iterate though an array/collection >>> and add those elements to the payload. >>> >>> 2 Doesn’t support conditional expressions: In case you want to add >>> elements based on conditions payloadFactory doesn’t support it. >>> >>> 3 Readability is less since numbered placeholders like $1,$2 are used >>> >>> <https://github.com/asanka88/VelocityTemplateMediator#how-velocity-template-mediator-solve-them>How >>> Velocity Template Mediator solve them? >>> >>> Velocity template mediator uses well known Apache Velocity as the >>> template engine. You can do whatever you can do with Velocity in side this. >>> Iterate through collections, check conditions etc. In addition to that >>> since we are using place holders like $name,$age for the variables ,so it >>> improves the readability as well. >>> >>> On the other hand, there was no such a thing in Synapse to create a >>> property out of a template. >>> >>> For Example: When you call a soap back end, suppose you have to send a >>> user name token in SOAP Header. Suppose there are several back end calls >>> you need to make and in every call you need to pass the user name token. >>> >>> With the payload factory , you will have to create that part every time. >>> Instead if you can create a property one time using a template and save it >>> in the message context , you can reuse it without generating again and >>> again. >>> >>> With the Velocity Template Mediator , it supports body,property,soap >>> header,envelope as the targets. You can put the generated output to anyof >>> these. And it supports both xml and json formats >>> >>> Sample Syntax >>> >>> <velocityTemplate media-type="xml|json"> >>> <format> >>> <person> >>> <name>$name</name> >>> <age>$age</age> >>> </person> >>> </format> >>> <args> >>> <arg name="name" expression="$ctx:name" /> >>> <arg name="age" expression="$ctx:age" /> >>> </args> >>> <target target-type="property|body|custom|header" name="propertyName" >>> property-type="string|om" scope="synapse|axis2|operation" /> >>> </velocityTemplate> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Asanka D >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> *Asanka DissanayakeSoftware Engineer* >>> *WSO2 Inc. - lean . enterprise . middleware | wso2.com >>> <http://wso2.com/>* >>> >>> *email: asan...@wso2.com <ruch...@wso2.com>, blog: >>> cyberwaadiya.blogspot.com >>> <http://cyberwaadiya.blogspot.com>, asankastechtalks.wordpress.com >>> <http://asankastechtalks.wordpress.com> mobile: +94 71 8373821* >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Architecture mailing list >>> Architecture@wso2.org >>> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Thank you and Best Regards, >> Chanaka Fernando >> Senior Technical Lead >> WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com >> lean.enterprise.middleware >> >> mobile: +94 773337238 >> Blog : http://soatutorials.blogspot.com >> LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chanaka-fernando/19/a20/5b0 >> Twitter:https://twitter.com/chanakaudaya >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> d...@wso2.org >> http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev >> >> > > > -- > > > *Asanka DissanayakeSoftware Engineer* > *WSO2 Inc. - lean . enterprise . middleware | wso2.com <http://wso2.com/>* > > *email: asan...@wso2.com <ruch...@wso2.com>, blog: > cyberwaadiya.blogspot.com > <http://cyberwaadiya.blogspot.com>, asankastechtalks.wordpress.com > <http://asankastechtalks.wordpress.com> mobile: +94 71 8373821* > -- Thank you and Best Regards, Chanaka Fernando Senior Technical Lead WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com lean.enterprise.middleware mobile: +94 773337238 Blog : http://soatutorials.blogspot.com LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chanaka-fernando/19/a20/5b0 Twitter:https://twitter.com/chanakaudaya
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