Tuesday, March 15, 2016

How to front a bearer token secured endpoint using WSO2 API Manager


whats covered: fronting a bearer token secured endpoint using a mediation policy for APIM 1.10.0


If a requirement arises to front a bearer token secured API while maintaining API manager authentication mechanism(though this is unlikely and should probably be avoided) it could be met using a mediation policy.


1) Create a mediation policy with the logic


The mediation policy should be such that it takes in the bearer token(of the back-end service) passed in as a custom transport level header value and passes it on to the backend service with correct formating. This can be achieved using a property mediator[1], header mediator[2] and a few synapse built in functions.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sequence xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse" name="bearersequence">
   <property xmlns:ns="http://org.apache.synapse/xsd" name="btoken" expression="$trp:token" scope="default" type="STRING"></property>
   <header xmlns:ns="http://org.apache.synapse/xsd" name="Authorization" scope="transport" expression="fn:concat('Bearer ', get-property('btoken'))"></header>
<header name="token" scope="transport" action="remove"></header>
</sequence>

download the example mediation policy from here[3]

2) Attach the mediation policy to the API In flow


Start creating an API with required HTTP methods etc, select Manage API from implementation and from Message Mediation Policies section upload the mediation policy to the in flow. Publish the API.




3) Invoke


Invoke the API with the bearer token of the backend service set to a header named "token" (as this is the header name that we have configured in the mediation policy).

 


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