Search for Assets

Anypoint Exchange search looks for terms in:

In an asset portal, click a tag or category element to create a filtered search showing similar assets.

The original Exchange search experience is available in Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition, MuleSoft Government Cloud, the US cloud, and the EU cloud. The new Exchange search experience is available in the US cloud and the EU cloud. The new search includes more options for search ranking, and more options and a better interface for searching by tags, categories, and organizations.

New Exchange search experience:

New Exchange search experience

Tags, Categories, and Ranking in the New Exchange Search Experience

To filter search results by tags and categories in the new Exchange search experience, use the drop-down menus on the search page.

To select the ranking of search results in the new Exchange search experience, use the Sort by drop-down menu to choose Relevance (default), Name, Last modified, or Rating. Relevance sorts the matching results by where a match is found in the asset metadata, such as name, title, pages, and API specification metadata. API specification metadata includes endpoints and types.

Searching in Organizations

In the original Exchange search experience, searches apply only to the Exchange organization you are viewing. If you are viewing a private Exchange organization, the search lists only that organization’s assets and not MuleSoft public assets.

In the new Exchange search experience, you can select which of the organizations visible to you to include in each search. By default, no organization is selected in the menu, and Exchange searches MuleSoft public assets and the assets of the root organization and its business groups.

Use the same method to save searches in either the original Exchange search experience or the new Exchange search experience:

  1. Enter a search term and click Save This Search.

  2. When prompted, give the search a name and select whether the search is an organization search or personal search.

    Administrators can save searches visible to anyone in their current business group. Personal searches are visible only to the person who creates them.

  3. Save the search.

  4. Confirm that your search appeas in the saved searches in the left navigation bar.

    Exchange lists search terms specific to your business group. Below those terms are saved searches you created:

    Saved Search Groups

Searching API Specifications

The new and original searches use the same method to search for these API specification properties:

  • API title

  • Base URI

  • Endpoints

    • Path

    • Display name

    • Description

  • Methods

    • Method type (GET, POST, PUT)

    • Description

  • Query parameters

    • Name

    • Description

  • URI parameters

    • Name

  • Types

    • Name

    • Properties

  • Traits

  • Properties

  • Security schemas

These property names are based on RAML specifications. Equivalent properties are indexed for OAS specifications. For example, RAML uses base URI but OAS uses host and path.

This example shows an API specification:

#%RAML 1.0
---
title: Leagues API
version: v1
baseUri: https://leagues.com/api/

types:
 Team:
   properties:
     name: string
     city: string

/leagues/{leagueId}:
 displayName: League resource
 description: Contains all the information about a league
 uriParameters:
   leagueId:
     displayName: League ID
     description: The ID of the league to retrieve information from
 /teams:
   get:
     displayName: Teams directory
     description: Get list of all teams in the league
     queryParameters:
       offset:
         displayName: Offset
         description: Offset for the result set
     responses:
       200:
         body:
           application/json:
               type: Team[]
   post:
     displayName: Create team
     description: Creates a new team in the league
     responses:
       201:
         description: New team has been created

This API is found by these searches:

Search term Matches

league API

API title

leagues.com

API baseUri

/leagues

Endpoint path

League resource

Endpoint display name

Information about a league

Endpoint description

POST

Endpoint method

create team

Endpoint method description

offset

Query parameter name, Query parameter description

leagueid

URI parameter name

team

Type name

city

Type property name

leagues leagueId teams

Endpoint path

/leagues/LEAGUE_ID/teams

Endpoint path

Note that the last two searches are the same, because special characters are removed before searching.

Search for Phrases by Using the Original Exchange Search Experience

Using the original Exchange search experience, to search for case-insensitive text that begins with each word you specify, put a space between words. This is similar to putting the * wildcard regular expression after each word. For example, searching for mq module finds any asset that has text that starts with mq or module.

Searching for a multiple word phrase shows assets that have every word in the phrase.

If you separate search words with any non-alphanumeric character other than a space, Anypoint Exchange converts the character to a space before searching.

Search Separators

The original Exchange search experience uses search separators to find Exchange assets that contain one or more terms.

If you input search words connected by non-alphanumeric symbols, Exchange replaces the symbols with spaces before searching for the term. The search string only succeeds if both words are present in the result. This is the same as the word1 AND word2 relationship.

Example search terms:

sales:connect
Sales-Connect
connect:/sales
-connect -sales

This table shows how each search term is interpreted based on the values in the asset name, asset ID, and tags for an asset. If the search term maps to the values correctly, a match occurs. If not, the reason is provided.

Asset Name Asset ID Tags Matches?

Salesforce API

salesforce-api

mule-Connector

Yes

Salesforce Connector

salesforce-connector

REST

Yes

Validations API

validations-api

salesforce-connecting

Yes

Optimized API

optimized-api

resource:/connect, salesforce:enabled

Yes

Cisco Sales API

cisco-sales-api

Connecting, Productive

Yes

Cisco Connector

cisco-connector

com.cisco.connector.sales

Yes, because the tag is split into separate terms.

Salesforce API

salesforce-api

muleconnector, MuleConnector

No. connect was not found.

Salesforce Connec

salesforce-connec

REST

No. connect was not found.

Validations API

validations-api

connector

No. sales was not found.

Cisco Presales API

cisco-presales-api

Connector, api

No. sales was not found.

Phrase Search Separators

The original Exchange search experience uses phrase search to find a group of terms inside quotation marks. Phrase searches match an asset only if all the exact terms inside quotes appear in consecutive order.

If you input any of these searches in Exchange, Exchange replaces non-alphanumeric symbols with spaces before searching for assets.

Example search terms:

Api: "Sales connect"
Api "Sales-connect"
Api "Sales:/connect"
Api-"Sales/connect"
"Sales connect":Api

This table shows how each search term is interpreted based on the values in the asset name, asset ID, and tags for an asset. If the search term maps to the values correctly, a match occurs. If not, the reason is provided.

Asset Name Asset ID Tags Matches?

Salesforce API

salesforce-api

mule-Connector

No. sales connect was not found.

Salesforce Connector

salesforce-connector

REST

No

Sales Connect Asset

validations-api

mule-connector

Yes

Sales Connect Images

validations-images

mule-connector

No. api was not found.

Optimized API

optimized-api

resource:/connect, sales:enabled

No. sales connect was not found.

Optimized API

optimized-api

resource:/sales, connect:enabled

No. sales connect was not found, because each term is in different tags.

Optimized API

optimized-api

sales:/connect

Yes

Search by Types, Tags, Categories, and Custom Fields in the Original Exchange Search Experience

In the original Exchange search experience, you can enter search text to search for assets, click All Types to set a filter for specific asset types, or combine search text with the filters listed in the type menu.

Content Types lists the different types of asset.

The original Exchange search experience uses query language to search assets by tags, categories, and custom fields.

Search by Tags

Search by tags using either tag:"some value" or tag:value.

If the value has no spaces, then double quotes are optional.

Tag search is case-insensitive.

Examples:

Search Tags Matches?

tag:"some value"

some value

Yes

tag:"some value"

value

No

tag:"value"

value

Yes

tag:value

value

Yes

tag:VALUE

value

Yes

tag:VaLuE

value

Yes

tag:value

val

No

Search by Categories

Search by categories using category:"some key" = "some value".

If the category has no spaces in the key or value, then double quotes are optional.

The key can include the asterisk (*) regular expression to search for characters within a category name.

The key is case-sensitive.

A search value matches an asset value if either of these is true:

  • The search value is entirely lowercase.

  • The letter case of the search value and the asset value match.

Examples:

Search Category Matches?

category:my-key = my-value

my-key:my-value

Yes

category:my-key = MY-VALUE

my-key:MY-VALUE

Yes

category:my-key = my-value

my-key:MY-VALUE

Yes

category:"my key" = "my value"

my key:my value

Yes

category:"key" = "value"

my key:my value

No

category:key = value

my-key:my-value

No

category:this.* = value

this.is.my.key:value

Yes

category:*my.key = value

this.is.my.key:value

Yes

category:this.* = value

this.is.my.key:some-value

No

category:this.* = some-*

this.is.my.key:some-value

No

You can search for a combination of different categories. You cannot search for multiple values of the same category.

Multiple search terms use an implicit AND. OR is not supported.

These search terms return all assets marked as both system APIs and Salesforce products:

category:"API Type" = "System API" category:"Product" = "Salesforce"

Search by Custom Fields

Search by fields using field:"some key" = "some value".

If the custom field has no spaces in the key or value, then double quotes are optional.

The key can include the asterisk (*) regular expression to search for characters within a field name.

The key is case-sensitive.

A search value matches an asset value if either of these is true:

  • The search value is entirely lowercase.

  • The letter case of the search value and the asset value match.

Examples:

Search Field Matches?

field:my-key = my-value

my-key:my-value

Yes

field:my-key = MY-VALUE

my-key:MY-VALUE

Yes

field:my-key = my-value

my-key:MY-VALUE

Yes

field:my-key = My-ValUe

my-key:MY-VALUE

No

field:MY-KEY = my-value

my-key:my-value

No

field:my-key = 10

my-key:10

Yes

field:"my key" = "my value"

my key:my value

Yes

field:"key" = "value"

my key:my value

No

field:key = value

my-key:my-value

No

field:this.* = value

this.is.my.key:value

Yes

field:*my.key = value

this.is.my.key:value

Yes

field:this.* = value

this.is.my.key:some-value

No

field:this.* = some-*

this.is.my.key:some-value

No

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