WSO2 ESB - How to secure API with Basic Auth

01. You can download basicAuth JAR file from the following location[1], copy it to the repository/component/lib directory, and restart the ESB. 
02. Please copy this configuration to your synapse configuration 
03. Invoke it with following curl command or any client(please note you must send basic auth header with request and invoke through https ports). 
      curl -v -k -H "Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=" https://localhost:8243/RESTWebService/dept/1

[1]https://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/carbon/platform/branches/4.1.0/products/esb/4.7.0/modules/samples/integration-scenarios/starbucks_sample/bin/WSO2-REST-BasicAuth-Handler-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

configuration 
========== 
   <api name="test-api" context="/RESTWebService"> 
      <resource methods="GET" protocol="https" uri-template="/dept/{id}"> 
         <inSequence> 
            <log level="full"/> 
            <log> 
               <property name="REST_URL_POSTFIX" expression="get-property('uri.var.id')"/> 
            </log> 
            <property name="POST_TO_URI" value="true" scope="axis2"/> 
            <send> 
               <endpoint name="test-api_APIEndpoint_0"> 
                  <address uri="http://service_host:port/RESTWebService/rest/departments/"/> 
               </endpoint> 
            </send> 
         </inSequence> 
         <outSequence> 
            <send/> 
         </outSequence> 
      </resource> 
      <handlers> 
         <handler class="org.wso2.rest.BasicAuthHandler"/> 
      </handlers> 
   </api>

How to get client IP from out going requests of WSO2 Elastic load balancer (Avoid masking client IP)

Normally when requests pass through load balancers client IP for actual back end server would be load balancers IP. But sometimes actual back end server may need actual client and load balancers (all  load balancers message passed) IPs to tracing message flows. In such cases normally we use  X-Forwarded-For[1]  header. If we need to achieve same using WSO2  elastic load balancer we need to add following configuration to main sequence. Also if header is already present we should append ip by separating ",". We can use this to avoid masking client IP from WSO2 ELB


[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For 

Add following configuration to main sequence in flow

<filter source="get-property('transport','X-Forwarded-For')" regex=".*">
<then>
<property name="coming-X-Forwarded-For" expression="fn:concat(get-property('transport','X-Forwarded-For'),
', ')" scope="axis2" type="STRING"/>
<property name="clientIP" expression="get-property('axis2','REMOTE_ADDR')"/>
<property name="X-Forwarded-For" expression="fn:concat(get-property('axis2','coming-X-Forwarded-For'),
get-property('clientIP'))" scope="transport" type="STRING"/>
</then>
<else>
<property name="X-Forwarded-For" expression="get-property('axis2','REMOTE_ADDR')" scope="transport" type="STRING"/>
</else>
</filter>

How to increase maximum number of Proxies using JMS Listeners - WSO2 ESB

Here we will see how we can increase maximum number of Proxies using JMS Listeners. When you create JMS proxy services in WSO2 ESB you might see something like below(if you created at-least 20 JMS proxies).

[2013-11-07 20:25:41,875]  WARN - JMSListener Polling tasks on destination : JMStoHTTPStockQuoteProxy18 of type queue for service JMStoHTTPStockQuoteProxy18 have not yet started after 3 seconds ..

So lets see how we can avoid this issue. For this we need to increase number of threads which consume messages from jms queues. So we need to edit wso2Server.sh file and add following 2 parameters as system properties.

    -Dsnd_t_core=200 \
    -Dsnd_t_max=250 \


Then restart server.Or you can create new folder named /conf inside server root and add file named jms.properties. Contents of jms.properties should be as follows.

snd_t_core=200
snd_t_max=250


Add that file and restart server.

WSO2 ESB JSON to XML transformation sample


1. Deploy the SimpleStockQuoteService in sample Axis2 server and start it on port 9000.
  goto wso2esb-4.7.0/samples/axis2Client/SimpleStockQuoteService/
  Then run ant command to build sample(type ant)
   Start axis2 server by using command sh axis2server.sh      
   (wso2esb-4.7.0/samples/axis2Server)

2. Start WSO2 ESB and add following proxy service configuration from source view.


 <proxy name="JSONProxy" transports="http https">
        <target>
            <endpoint>
                <address uri="http://localhost:9000/services/SimpleStockQuoteService"/>
            </endpoint>
            <inSequence>
                <log level="full"/>
                <xslt key="in_transform"/>
                <property name="messageType" scope="axis2" value="text/xml"/>
            </inSequence>
            <outSequence>
                <log level="full"/>
                <xslt key="out_transform"/>
                <property name="messageType" scope="axis2" value="application/json"/>
                <send/>
            </outSequence>
        </target>
    </proxy>
 
    <localEntry key="in_transform">
        <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                        xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions"
                        xmlns:m0="http://services.samples" version="2.0" exclude-result-prefixes="m0 fn">
            <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
            <xsl:template match="*">
                <xsl:element name="{local-name()}" namespace="http://services.samples">
                    <xsl:copy-of select="attribute::*"/>
                    <xsl:apply-templates/>
                </xsl:element>
            </xsl:template>
        </xsl:stylesheet>
    </localEntry>
 
    <localEntry key="out_transform">
        <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
            <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"/>
            <xsl:template match="*">
                <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
                    <xsl:apply-templates/>
                </xsl:element>
            </xsl:template>
        </xsl:stylesheet>
    </localEntry>


3. Invoke created JSON proxy by using following request
payload> {"getQuote":{"request":{"symbol":"IBM"}}}
Header> Content-Type: application/json


Sample curl request

curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" POST -d '{"getQuote":{"request":{"symbol":"IBM"}}}' http://localhost:8280/services/JSONProxy


Then you will recieve JSON response similar to
{"getQuoteResponse":{"return":{"change":"4.037527807194175","earnings":"-8.090117195350409","high":"70.45626821525283","last":
"67.1998913871881","lastTradeTimestamp":"Wed Oct 16 14:39:16 IST 2013","low":"68.94581289774287","marketCap":"-5387372.221669148","name":"IBM Company","open":"-66.52524061422466","peRatio":"23.47679801684674","percentageChange":
"5.438572840664724","prevClose":"74.23873735780825","symbol":"IBM","volume":"18254"}}}


Here what happen is
Client > sending json request > JSON proxy in sequence -convert message to xml  > send to actual back end server > JSON proxy in sequence -convert xml response to JSON > Client will receive JSON response

JSON client will send a stockquote request to ESB using the JSON content interchange format. Synapse will transform it into a SOAP request and forward to the Axis2 server. The SOAP response from the Axis2 server will be converted into a JSON message and sent back to the JSON client.

How to convert xml formatted authentication faliure error into JSON errors in WSO2 API manager

For this we need to add additional sequence which convert message into JSON. Then we need to add that sequence to auth failure sequence so authentication faliure message will be convert and sent to client.

Add convert sequence to _auth_failure_handler_
 

<sequence name="_auth_failure_handler_" xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse">
    <sequence key="convert"/>
</sequence>

convert sequence

<sequence xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse" name="convert">
<sequence key="_build_"/>
<filter source="get-property('MESSAGE_FORMAT')" regex="soap1[1-2]">
<then>
<property name="SOAP_FAULT_CODE" value="Server"/>
<makefault>
<code expression="$ctx:SOAP_FAULT_CODE"/>
<reason expression="$ctx:ERROR_MESSAGE"/>
</makefault>
</then>
<else>
<payloadFactory>
<format>
<am:fault xmlns:am="http://wso2.org/apimanager">
<am:code>$1</am:code>
<am:type>Status report</am:type>
<am:message>Runtime Error</am:message>
<am:description>$2</am:description>
</am:fault>
</format>
<args>
<arg expression="$ctx:ERROR_CODE"/>
<arg expression="$ctx:ERROR_MESSAGE"/>
</args>
</payloadFactory>
<filter source="$axis2:HTTP_METHOD" regex="^(?!.*(POST|PUT)).*$"></filter>
</else>
</filter>
<filter xpath="$ctx:CUSTOM_HTTP_SC">
<then>
<property name="HTTP_SC" expression="$ctx:CUSTOM_HTTP_SC" scope="axis2"/>
</then>
<else>
<property name="HTTP_SC" value="500" scope="axis2"/>
</else>
</filter>
<class name="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.usage.publisher.APIMgtFaultHandler"/>
<property name="RESPONSE" value="true"/>
<header name="To" action="remove"/>
<property name="NO_ENTITY_BODY" scope="axis2" action="remove"/>
<property name="ContentType" scope="axis2" action="remove"/>
<property name="Authorization" scope="transport" action="remove"/>
<property name="Host" scope="transport" action="remove"/>
<property name="Accept" scope="transport" action="remove"/>
<property name="X-JWT-Assertion" scope="transport" action="remove"/>
<property name="messageType" value="application/json" scope="axis2"/>
<send/>
</sequence>

How to convert token API response into xml format WSO2 API manager - json to soap conversion


Here in this post i have described how to convert token/login API response into xml format WSO2 API manager. This is similar to json to soap conversion in WSO2 ESB. Here is the updated token API. Please copy this and replace with current token api synapse configuration.



<api name="_WSO2AMLoginAPI_" context="/login" xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse"> 
    <resource methods="POST" url-mapping="/*"> 
        <inSequence> 
<property name="inSeqFORMAT" expression="$trp:Accept"/> 
<property name="Accept" action="remove" scope="transport"/> 
            <send> 
                <endpoint> 
                    <address uri="https://localhost:9443/oauth2endpoints/token"/> 
                </endpoint> 
            </send> 
        </inSequence> 
        <outSequence> 
<filter source="get-property('inSeqFORMAT')" regex="application/xml"> 
<then> 
<builder> 
<messageBuilder contentType="application/json" class="org.apache.axis2.json.JSONBuilder" 
formatterClass="org.apache.axis2.json.JSONMessageFormatter"/> 
<messageFormatter contentType="application/xml" 
class="org.apache.axis2.transport.http.ApplicationXMLFormatter"/> 
</builder> 
<property name="messageType" value="application/xml" scope="axis2"/> 
<property name="ContentType" value="application/xml" scope="axis2"/> 
<payloadFactory> 
<format> 
<m:root xmlns:m="http://services.samples"> 
<token_type>$1</token_type> 
<expires_in>$2</expires_in> 
<refresh_token>$3</refresh_token> 
<access_token>$4</access_token> 
</m:root> 
</format> 
<args> 
<arg expression="//token_type"/> 
<arg expression="//expires_in"/> 
<arg expression="//refresh_token"/> 
<arg expression="//access_token"/> 
</args> 
</payloadFactory> 
</then> 
<else> 
</else> 
</filter> 
            <send/> 
        </outSequence> 
    </resource> 
</api>

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