About

This assertion adds a delay of X milliseconds to a policy. It effectively behaves as a sleep action during policy execution. It is intended be used for development and testing purposes only - not production.

Build

In order to build the modular assertion run gradle build.

This will compile, test, and create the jar file. It will be available in build/libs

Adding Libraries

In order to build the custom assertions the CA API Gateway API jar is required to be put into the lib directory.

Run

Docker version of Gateway greatly helps us to deploy assertions / RESTMAN bundles quickly. Please follow the steps below to run the container Gateway prepopulated with this example assertion and example services.

1. Open Shell or Command Prompt and navigate to the directory where this repository is cloned.
2. Build the Assertion

     gradle build
   

3. Ensure your docker environment is properly setup.
4. Provide the CA API Gateway license at docker/license.xml.
5. Execute the below docker-compose command to run the CA API Gateway container.

     docker-compose up
   

   • Provided docker-compose.yml ensures pulling the latest CA API Gateway image from the Docker Hub public repository and deploys the assertion that was just build.
   • In addition, it publishes one service using delay.req.bundle RESTMAN bundle.
     • delay [/delay] Service: Sleeps for the amount of milliseconds given in the delay query parameter.
6. Wait until the Gateway container is started and is ready to receive messages.

Usage

To add a delay to any given policy, open the policy in the Policy Manager and look for the custom assertion named Delay in the upper left assertion palette:

Drag and drop the Delay assertion to the policy editor palette. This will prompt the operator to enter the amount of delay in milliseconds. The user can enter either a positive integer or a context variable in the format ${variable}.

The given time will be added as a delay on every incoming request that hits the given policy branch.

How You Can Contribute

Contributions are welcome and much appreciated. To learn more, see the Contribution Guidelines.

License

Copyright (c) 2018 CA. All rights reserved.

This software may be modified and distributed under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.