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About Autodiscovery

API Autodiscovery is a mechanism that manages an API from API Manager by pairing the deployed application to an API created on the platform. API Management includes tracking, enforcing policies if you apply any, and reporting API analytics. Critical to the Autodiscovery process is identifying the API by providing the API name and version.

Unsupported Use of Autodiscovery

Multiple Autodiscovery elements pointing to an API instance are not supported. For each supported Mule runtime version for an API instance, you can have only one Autodiscovery element pointing to the API in API Manager.

Configuring Autodiscovery

If an API is not registered on Anypoint Platform, Autodiscovery triggers that registration. If you manually register and deploy an API, you need to enable Autodiscovery to use the API Gateway. If the API is not registered, you need to provide the credentials as follows:

  • Deploy from Studio

    Studio 6.0: Add organization credentials to Studio Preferences. For more information, see the Studio 6 documentation (link below).

  • Deploy the API through API Manager or Runtime Manager.

    The client ID and client secret are configured automatically.

  • Deploy from the Mule command line.

    You configure the client ID and client secret in $MULE_HOME/conf/wrapper.conf as described in the next topic.

  • Deploy some other way.

    Set system properties in Runtime Manager. In the property settings using the following names:

    • anypoint.platform.client_id={your client ID}

    • anypoint.platform.client_secret={your client secret}

Autodiscovery Process

The following diagram illustrates the Autodiscovery process for a project containing an api-platform-gw:api Autodiscovery global element in the configuration.xml:

api auto discovery v2

After API registration, the API version and its endpoint function the same as any other API version or endpoint. You can edit, update, or delete the API. If the Mule runtime or API Gateway runtime instance running the API goes offline, or you stop the underlying application, the API and endpoints remain in API Manager, but the endpoints are untracked by the agent.

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