On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Malintha Amarasinghe <malint...@wso2.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > +1 for this improvement as it will make the developer's life easy when > exporting/importing multiple APIs. > > The option [2] is better in situations like there are many APIs to bulk > export so that the it might be difficult for a user to specify each and > every APIs to export: what he wants is simply export all the APIs > available. The overhead of the API call is not significant IMHO; there will > be only one (or very few) additional calls to getAllAPIs. > > But as we discussed offline, we can start from step [1], and then improve > it by adding step [2]. > Step 1: CSV file with list of API name/version/provider --> Bulk export Step 2: call getAllApis() and get the list of APIs --> Generates the CSV file (we can implement this as a different operation and then provide the generated CSV file as an input to Step1) Regarding the file format I would prefer CSV as it would make it easy to > edit if need using existing tools. WDYT? > > Thanks! > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Kaveesha Perera <kavee...@wso2.com> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm planing to improve APIM import/export tool to support bulk import and >> bulk export of APIs. >> >> When considering the bulk export, there it came up to a discussion point >> on how to get the API list to be export. Considering several facts, came up >> with two suggestions as follows. >> >> [1]. Asking user to submit a file with explicitly written list of APIs. >> (API detail may include name, version and provider) >> >> [2]. Getting the prevailing list of APIs using getAllAPIs REST API, save >> the usable content of resulting string in a separate file, then allow user >> to edit it such that he can remove the unwanted APIs from the list, use it >> as a input for the bulk export. >> >> Currently we prefer procedure [1], since the process [2] creates >> additional overhead due to the REST API call. Still there can be are pros >> and cons in both the processors. If any opinions on above and any options >> please do reply. >> >> Regards. >> -- >> Kaveesha Perera >> Intern - Software Engineering >> >> mobile: 0716130471 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Architecture mailing list >> Architecture@wso2.org >> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture >> >> > > > -- > Malintha Amarasinghe > Software Engineer > *WSO2, Inc. - lean | enterprise | middleware* > http://wso2.com/ > > Mobile : +94 712383306 > -- Malintha Amarasinghe Software Engineer *WSO2, Inc. - lean | enterprise | middleware* http://wso2.com/ Mobile : +94 712383306
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