Is the VS code plugin and emulator available for Apigee edge as well ? If so, will the same version be compatible with Edge as well ?
No, I wouldn't say the plugin and emulator is "available" for Apigee Edge. There's just one version of the plugin and emulator. The functionality of the emulator is based on the Apigee X / Apigee hybrid runtime. This includes all the existing policies from Edge, plus some new ones (like the CORS policy, DataCapture, GraphQL, AssertCondition, the dialogflow stuff, and so on), minus some that are dropped (eg, StatisticsCollector).
You will be able to use the VSCode + Apigee emulator to test your proxies, products, OAuth, JWT, Quota, and so on. There will be some gaps between what you can build in the tool, and what you can deploy to Edge, due to the difference in the set of supported policies. The skeleton - the proxyendpoint and targetendpoint and the basic policies and sharedflows etc, I expect will be directly compatible. (Though Google is not offering a statement of official support!)
There are two exception cases that I can think of now, though there may be others I am not thinking of.
- There is a feature in the VSCode plugin to allow direct deployment of an environment bundle to an external instance of Apigee X; that won't be possible with Edge as the target. You'll need to export the stuff you built, then import it into Edge.
- There are some changes in libraries and implementations in X and hybrid, as compared to Edge. For example the SpikeArrest works slightly differently. The JSONPath library is different (current). We updated the Java runtime (to JDK 11), which means Java callouts may behave differently. All of these will result in differences in behavior, between the emulator and Edge. In fact the emulator is not an emulator, it's just a containerized runtime, THE X/hybrid runtime . And that is slightly different than the runtime for Edge.
In sum, there is no official support for using the plugin and emulator to build Edge proxies. But, it will work for some cases. The experience will not be 100% ideal, but you might find value in it.
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