Chandana Napagoda's Blog

There are many ways to secure a Service/API using different Authentication mechanisms. Mutual Certificate authentication(AKA: Client Certificate Authentication) is one of the ways to secure Service or API. Recently I was trying to integrate with an API which is secured using Mutual Certificate Authentication. In this scenario, the backend service team gave me their certificate-based on PKCS#12. When integrating this backend system with WSO2 Platform, we have to use 'Multi-HTTPS transport'. With this 'Multi-HTTPS transport', it will grant great flexibility to define different SSL profiles with separate trust stores and key stores for different IPs or hosts. This custom SSL profile can be implemented for Client to Synapse Runtime(Client --> ESB) or Synapse Runtime to Backend(ESB --> Backend). If it is Client to ESB, then you have to define custom SSL Profiles in the transportReceiver section. In my use-case, it was for ESB to Backend. So I had to add custom SSL prof

Smook Mediator available in WSO2 EI/ESB can be used to do various message transformations. For an example read CSV file and transform to XML . I had a requirement where I wanted to load a CSV file content into the database. So, my initial idea was to convert CSV content into XML, then use the XSLT mediator to generate a data service request. But it will be a costly operation with lots of resource consumption. Therefore, instead of generating a data service request via XSLT, I tried to use the options available in Smooks. Smooks provides FreeMaker based templating support that can be used to convert CSV to SOAP. Here, first I have created a sample input CSV file and expected Data Service sample request message. With this, it will be very easy to generate data mapping. Below are the examples of CSV and Data Service models Sample.csv: UserId,NameFirst,NameLast 1,Chandana,Napagoda 2,John,Tester SampleOut.xml :  <au:addUsers_batch_req xmlns:au="https://blo