Suppose you have a REST API and besides parameters also want to prompt subscribers for custom HTTP headers.
WSO2 API Cloud makes this easy.
In the example below, we will add a custom header called
setName
to an existing API and invoke it from the Developer Portal.
1. In API Cloud's Publisher interface, open the API for editing, and on the second screen (
Implement), select the
Enable API based CORS Configuration checkbox:
2. In the
Access Control Allow Headers edit box, type the name of the header that you would like to add (in our case
setName
) and press Enter. Then click the
Save button.
3. Now, go back to the first step of API editing (
Design), open the resource that you want to request that header as a parameter, add the parameter with the name of the header, and change the
Parameter Type from query to
header:
4. If the API has already been published, you can just click
Save to make the change go into effect. If not, go to the last step of the wizard and click the
Save & Publish button there.
5. Now, you can go to the Developer Portal (also known as API Store), subscribe to the API if you have not done so yet, and expand the method that we have just modified - you will see that our new header
setName
is there, listed as one of the parameters:
6. When you invoke the method, you can see that the new header is indeed getting added to the API call and passed to your backend. Notice that the generated curl command example also has the new header:
That is it!
WSO2 API Cloud makes it easy to design your APIs the way you want them and have them published for your consumers in a way that is intuitive and easy to understand.