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What is api resources? How are api resources and api proxy related?

Posted on 05-05-2019 03:00 AM
suchansinee
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Hi I'm new about apigee edge. I'm confused about keywords between api resources and api proxy.

i think api resources is set of resource and api resources bundled in api product.

and api proxy have a set of resource and api proxy bundled in api product too.

so i think api resources and api proxy is the same thing.

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What is api resources? Resouce and api resources is the same thing? How are api resources and api proxy related?

Thank you.

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Let's take an example. Assume you have an endpoint(URL) which is used to handle all CRUD operations for employees data.

  • Within Apigee you can create an API Proxy using the Employee's Endpoint URL.
  • Once you create the proxy you want to do various calls to the endpoint like,
    • get employees data - GET HTTP method
    • create a new employee - POST
    • update employee details - PUT
    • delete the employee record - DELETE
  • For each of the above calls, you need to send unique requests to your endpoint, to do so we make use of API Resources in API Proxies.
  • We can create 4 API Resources like,
    • getEmployeesData
    • createNewEmployeeRecord
    • updateEmployeeDataById
    • deleteEmployeeDataById
  • Each API Resource can have multiple policies,
    • getEmployeesData
      • Quota Policy allowing 100 calls per minute for Platinum Users
      • Quota Policy allowing 10 calls per minute for Gold Users
    • createNewEmployeeRecord
      • Quota Policy allowing 100 calls per minute for Platinum Users
    • updateEmployeeDataById
      • Quota Policy allowing 100 calls per minute for Platinum Users
    • deleteEmployeeDataById
      • Quota Policy allowing 100 calls per minute for Platinum Users
  • Now you can have multiple Products in Apigee,
    • Platinum Product has a quota config of 100 calls per minute
      • You can map all 4 API Resource in this Product
  • Gold Product has a quota config of 10 calls per minute
    • You can map only getEmployeesData API Resource in this Product
  • In this way, developers who are assigned to the Gold Product can only make a GET call to only one API resource - getEmployeesData

    • API Resources are also called as Conditional Flows in APigee.

    API Resources/Conditional Flows are created inside an API Proxy.

    I have taken the example of one API Proxy with two Products. Similar to this you can have different API Resources from multiple Proxies used in a single Product like,

    API_Proxy_1 there are two resources(/foo1 and /bar1)

    API_Proxy_2 there is one resource (/foobar)

    You can have a,

    Product1 which can have /foo1 and /foobar API resources

    Product2 with only /bar1 API resource

    Watch this video for more explanation.

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