AccessEntity policy

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What

Retrieves entity profiles you specify from the Apigee Edge data store. The policy places the profile in a variable whose name follows the format AccessEntity.{policy_name}. You can use AccessEntity to access profiles for the following entities:

• App
• API product
• Company
• Company developer
• Consumer key
• Developer

The AccessEntity policy functions as a policy-based runtime database lookup. You can use the profile information returned by this policy to enable dynamic behavior, such as conditional endpoint routing, flow execution, policy enforcement.

You use the AccessEntity policy to get entity profile data as XML and put it into a variable. You identify the entity to get by specifying an entity type and one or more identifiers that specify which entity of that type you want. Later, in another policy, you can retrieve the entity profile data with another policy, such as an ExtractVariables policy or AssignMessage policy.

Samples

The following samples show AccessEntity used in conjunction with the ExtractVariables and AssignMessage policies to extract a developer's email and add it to the HTTP header.

<AccessEntity name="GetDeveloperProfile">
  <!-- This is the type entity whose profile we need to pull from the Edge datastore. -->
  <EntityType  value="developer"/>
  <!-- We tell the policy to use the API key (presented as query parameter) to identify the developer. -->
  <EntityIdentifier ref="request.queryparam.apikey" type="consumerkey"/> 
</AccessEntity>

<ExtractVariables name="SetDeveloperProfile">
  <!-- The source element points to the variable populated by AccessEntity policy. 
  The format is <policy-type>.<policy-name>.
  In this case, the variable contains the whole developer profile. -->
  <Source>AccessEntity.GetDeveloperProfile</Source> 
  <VariablePrefix>developer</VariablePrefix>
  <XMLPayload>
    <Variable name="email" type="string"> 
        <!-- You parse elements from the developer profile using XPath. -->
      <XPath>/Developer/Email</XPath>
    </Variable>
  </XMLPayload>
</ExtractVariables>

<!-- We'll use this policy to return the variables set in the developer profile, 
just so that we can easily see them in the response. -->
<AssignMessage name="EchoVariables">
  <AssignTo createNew="false" type="response"></AssignTo>
  <IgnoreUnresolvedVariables>true</IgnoreUnresolvedVariables>
  <Set>
    <Headers>
      <Header name="X-Developer-email">{developer.email}</Header>
    </Headers>
  </Set>
</AssignMessage>

Element reference

The basic of structure of an AccessEntity policy is:

<AccessEntity name="policy_name">
  <EntityType  value="entity_type"/>
  <EntityIdentifier ref="entity_identifier" type="identifier_type"/> 
  <SecondaryIdentifier ref="secondary_identifier" type="identifier_type"/>
</AccessEntity>

You can access multiple entities of the same type by grouping them in an Identifiers element:

<AccessEntity name="name_of_the_policy">
  <EntityType  value="type_of_entity"/>
  <Identifiers>
    <Identifier>
      <EntityIdentifier ref="reference_to_entity_identifier" type*="identifier_type"/> 
      <SecondaryIdentifier ref="reference_to_secondary_entity_identifier" type="identifier_type"/><!-- optional -->
    </Identifier >
    <Identifier>
      <EntityIdentifier ref="reference_to_entity_identifier" type*="identifier_type"/> 
      <SecondaryIdentifier ref="reference_to_secondary_entity_identifier" type="identifier_type"/><!-- optional -->
    </Identifier >
  </Identifiers>
</AccessEntity>

<AccessEntity> attributes

<AccessEntity async="false" continueOnError="false" enabled="true" name="policy_name">

The following table describes attributes that are common to all policy parent elements:

<DisplayName> element

Use in addition to the name attribute to label the policy in the management UI proxy editor with a different, natural-language name.

<DisplayName>Policy Display Name</DisplayName>

<EntityIdentifier> element

Specifies the particular entity -- of the type given in EntityType -- to get.

<EntityIdentifier ref="value_variable" type="identifier_type"/> 

Attributes

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<AccessEntity async="false" continueOnError="false" enabled="true" name="GetCompany">
    <DisplayName>GetCompanyProfile</DisplayName>
    <EntityType value="company"></EntityType>
    <EntityIdentifier ref="request.queryparam.apikey" type="consumerkey"/>
</AccessEntity>

<EntityType> element

Specifies the type of entity to retrieve from the data store.

<EntityType  value="entity_type"/>

Use an EntityIdentifier element to specify which entity of the given type you want. For a reference of entity types, see the Entity types and identifiers.

Attributes

<SecondaryIdentifier> element

In conjunction with EntityIdentifier, specifies a value to identify the desired instance of the given EntityType.

<SecondaryIdentifier ref="value_variable" type="identifier_type"/>

Use SecondaryIdentifier when specifying only an EntityIdentifier will not guarantee that you get a single entity. See Narrowing results with secondary identifiers for more information.

Using multiple SecondaryIdentifier elements is not supported.

Attributes

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<AccessEntity async="false" continueOnError="false" enabled="true" name="GetAPIProduct">
    <DisplayName>GetAPIProduct</DisplayName>
    <EntityType value="apiproduct"></EntityType>
    <EntityIdentifier ref="developer.app.name" type="appname"/> 
    <SecondaryIdentifier ref="developer.id" type="developerid"/> 
</AccessEntity>

Usage notes

Narrowing results with secondary identifiers

For some entities, giving one identifier might not be specific enough to get the entity you want. In those cases, you can use a secondary identifier to narrow the results.

Your first, possibly broad policy configuration might look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<AccessEntity async="false" continueOnError="false" enabled="true" name="GetApp">
    <DisplayName>GetAppProfile</DisplayName>
    <EntityType value="apiproduct"></EntityType>
    <EntityIdentifier ref="request.queryparam.apikey" type="consumerkey"/>
</AccessEntity>

Because an app can be associated with multiple API products, using just the app ID might not return the API product you want (you could get just the first of multiple matched products).

Instead, to get a more exact result, you could use a SecondaryIdentifier. For example, you might have appname and developerid variables in the flow because these are populated by default during an OAuth 2.0 exchange. You could use the values of those variables in an AccessEntity policy to get profile details on the requesting app.

Your more specific policy configuration might look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<AccessEntity async="false" continueOnError="false" enabled="true" name="GetApp">
    <DisplayName>GetAppProfile</DisplayName>
    <EntityType value="apiproduct"></EntityType>
    <EntityIdentifier ref="developer.app.name" type="appname"/> 
    <SecondaryIdentifier ref="developer.id" type="developerid"/> 
</AccessEntity>

Supported entity types and identifiers

AccessEntity supports the following entity types and identifiers.

Example entity profile XML

To retrieve the entity profile value you want with XPath, you'll need to know something about the profile XML's structure. For an example of the structure, use a management API call to get XML for the entity you want. For details, refer to the management API reference.

The following sections include code for API calls, along with example XML from the call.

Apps

$ curl -H "Accept:text/xml" -X GET \
https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/apps/{app_id} \
-u email:password

See also Get App in an Organization by App ID in the Edge management API reference.

Or:

$ curl -H "Accept:text/xml" -X GET \
https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/developers/{developer_email}/apps/{app_name} \
-u email:password

See also Get Developer App Details in the Edge management API reference.

Sample profile:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<App name="thomas-app">
    <AccessType>read</AccessType>
    <ApiProducts/>
    <Credentials>
        <Credential>
            <Attributes/>
            <ConsumerKey>wrqOOOiPArFI0WRoB1gAJMRbOguekJ5w</ConsumerKey>
            <ConsumerSecret>WvOhDrJ8m6kzz7Ni</ConsumerSecret>
            <ApiProducts>
                <ApiProduct>
                    <Name>FreeProduct</Name>
                    <Status>approved</Status>
                </ApiProduct>
            </ApiProducts>
            <Scopes/>
            <Status>approved</Status>
        </Credential>
    </Credentials>
    <AppFamily>default</AppFamily>
    <AppId>ab308c13-bc99-4c50-8434-0e0ed1b86075</AppId>
    <Attributes>
        <Attribute>
            <Name>DisplayName</Name>
            <Value>Tom's Weather App</Value>
        </Attribute>
    </Attributes>
    <CallbackUrl>http://tom.app/login</CallbackUrl>
    <CreatedAt>1362502872727</CreatedAt>
    <CreatedBy>admin@apigee.com</CreatedBy>
    <DeveloperId>PFK8IwOeAOW01JKA</DeveloperId>
    <LastModifiedAt>1362502872727</LastModifiedAt>
    <LastModifiedBy>admin@apigee.com</LastModifiedBy>
    <Scopes/>
    <Status>approved</Status>
</App>

API product

$ curl  -H "Accept:text/xml" -X GET \
https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/apiproducts/{apiproduct_name} \
-u email:password

See also Get API Product in the Edge management API reference.

Sample XPath, retrieves the second API resource (URI) from the API product named weather_free:

/ApiProduct['@name=weather_free']/ApiResources/ApiResource[1]/text()

Sample profile returned as XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ApiProduct name="weather_free">
    <ApiResources>
        <ApiResource>/forecastrss, /reports</ApiResource>
    </ApiResources>
    <ApprovalType>auto</ApprovalType>
    <Attributes>
        <Attribute>
            <Name>description</Name>
            <Value>Introductory API Product</Value>
        </Attribute>
        <Attribute>
            <Name>developer.quota.interval</Name>
            <Value>1</Value>
        </Attribute>
        <Attribute>
            <Name>developer.quota.limit</Name>
            <Value>1</Value>
        </Attribute>
        <Attribute>
            <Name>developer.quota.timeunit</Name>
            <Value>minute</Value>
        </Attribute>
        <Attribute>
            <Name>servicePlan</Name>
            <Value>Introductory</Value>
        </Attribute>
    </Attributes>
    <CreatedAt>1355847839224</CreatedAt>
    <CreatedBy>andrew@apigee.com</CreatedBy>
    <Description>Free API Product</Description>
    <DisplayName>Free API Product</DisplayName>
    <Environments/>
    <LastModifiedAt>1355847839224</LastModifiedAt>
    <LastModifiedBy>andrew@apigee.com</LastModifiedBy>
    <Proxies/>
    <Scopes/>
</ApiProduct>

Company

$ curl   -H "Accept:text/xml" -X GET \
https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/companies/{company_name} \
-u email:password

See also Get Company Details in the Edge management API reference.

Sample profile:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Company name="theramin">
    <Apps/>
    <DisplayName>Theramin Corporation</DisplayName>
    <Organization>apigee-pm</Organization>
    <Status>active</Status>
    <Attributes>
        <Attribute>
            <Name>billing_code</Name>
            <Value>13648765</Value>
        </Attribute>
    </Attributes>
    <CreatedAt>1349208631291</CreatedAt>
    <CreatedBy>andrew@apigee.com</CreatedBy>
    <LastModifiedAt>1349208631291</LastModifiedAt>
    <LastModifiedBy>andrew@apigee.com</LastModifiedBy>
</Company>

Company developer

$ curl -H "Accept:text/xml" -X GET \
https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/companies/{company_name}/developers/{developer_name} \
-u email:password

Sample profile:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Developers>
    <Developer>
        <Email>ntesla@theramin.com</Email>
        <Role>developer</Role>
    </Developer>
</Developers>

Consumer key

$ curl -H "Accept:text/xml" -X GET \
https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/developers/{developer_email}/apps/{app_name}/keys/{consumer_key} \
-u email:password

See also Get Key Details for a Developer App in the Edge management API reference.

Sample XPath:

/Credential/ApiProducts/ApiProduct[Name='weather_free']/Status/text()

Sample profile:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Credential>
    <Attributes/>
    <ConsumerKey>XLotL3PRxNkUGXhGAFDPOr6fqtvAhuZe</ConsumerKey>
    <ConsumerSecret>iNUyEaOOh96KR3YL</ConsumerSecret>
    <ApiProducts>
        <ApiProduct>
            <Name>weather_free</Name>
            <Status>approved</Status>
        </ApiProduct>
    </ApiProducts>
    <Scopes/>
    <Status>approved</Status>
</Credential>

Developer

$ curl -H "Accept:text/xml" -X GET \
https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/o/{org_name}/developers/{developer_email} \
-u email:password

See also Get Developer in the Edge management API reference.

Sample XPath:

/Developer/Attributes/Attribute[Name='my_custom_attribute']/Value/text()

/Developer/Email/text()

Sample profile:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Developer>
    <Apps>
        <App>weatherappx</App>
        <App>weatherapp</App>
    </Apps>
    <Email>ntesla@theramin.com</Email>
    <DeveloperId>4Y4xd0KRZ1wmHJqu</DeveloperId>
    <FirstName>Nikola</FirstName>
    <LastName>Tesla</LastName>
    <UserName>theramin</UserName>
    <OrganizationName>apigee-pm</OrganizationName>
    <Status>active</Status>
    <Attributes>
        <Attribute>
            <Name>project_type</Name>
            <Value>public</Value>
        </Attribute>
    </Attributes>
    <CreatedAt>1349797040634</CreatedAt>
    <CreatedBy>rsaha@apigee.com</CreatedBy>
    <LastModifiedAt>1349797040634</LastModifiedAt>
    <LastModifiedBy>rsaha@apigee.com</LastModifiedBy>
</Developer>

Flow variables

When the entity profile specified in the AccessEntity policy is retrieved, the XML-formatted profile object is added to the message context as a variable. It can be accessed like any other variable, with reference to the variable name. The user-provided name of the AccessEntity policy is set as the variable prefix of the variable name.

For example, if an AccessEntity policy with name of GetDeveloper is executed, then the XML-formatted profile is stored in the variable named AccessEntity.GetDeveloper. The XML-formatted profile can then be parsed using an XPath defined in an ExtractVariables policy that specifies AccessEntity.GetDeveloper as its source.

Error reference

For related information, see What you need to know about policy errors and Handling faults.

Runtime errors

None.

Deployment errors

Related topics

• ExtractVariables: ExtractVariables policy
• AssignMessage: AssignMessage policy