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Find Asset Information

Exchange helps you find assets. You can search for assets, click All Types to filter for specific assets, or combine search text with an All Types filter.

Content Types lists the different types of asset.

Asset Details

When you click an asset, Exchange provides detailed information:

  • Left navigation area - Lists additional pages, saved search terms, application names, instances, and for a REST API, the HTTP functions in the REST specification.

  • Right detail panel - Lists the asset type, when the asset was created and by which organization, when the asset was last published, the version, and the asset’s dependencies. For REST APIs, the right panel lets you test the API by creating example calls, test data (mocking), and the ability to send data to the API and view the results.

Exchange Search looks for terms in:

You can combine search terms with the filters listed in All Types.

You can also search by clicking Category or Tag elements. This creates a filtered search you can use to find similar assets.

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

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

  2. Exchange prompts you to give the search a name, and to select if the search is for your organization or personal. Administrators can save searches visible to anyone in their current business group. Personal searches are visible only to the person who creates them.

  3. View the left navigation bar to see the saved searches. Exchange lists search terms specific to your business group. Below those terms are saved searches you created.

    Saved Search Groups

View Assets by Business Group

A business group provides a way to group individuals within an organization. A system administrator assigns users to belong to a business group. Each business group can have separate Exchange assets. You need to log into Anypoint Platform to view the business groups. Click a group name from the taskbar.

Screenshot - Business groups in upper taskbar drop-down menu

If you cannot see additional groups, contact your Exchange administrator.

If you cannot find an asset in one group, it may be in another business group. To find assets from other business groups click All assets. The left navigation area provides additional areas to search. The "Provided by MuleSoft" scope lists assets provided by MuleSoft. The "All assets" scope lists assets provided by MuleSoft and your own master organization. Business group scopes list assets built by users within a business group.

View REST API Elements in an Asset

  1. In the left navigation area you can view RAML or OAS API specification information such as resources and the methods in each resource. Click a method button to view information about the API:

    Screenshot - REST API function buttons in left nav bar

  2. Use the right side of a method view to experiment with the API. This functionality is similar to what you can expect in programs such as Postman where you can specify custom HTTP headers and test each API’s method using the API’s endpoint.

  3. Click Request Access to tie the API you’re viewing to one of your applications so that you can use the API to send and receive data that your application can consume.

Test an API with API Notebook

  1. Click API Notebook in the content page if one is available for the API.

  2. After you read the description for usage information, you can experiment with the example in the code block to try different parameters and values, and see the results in real time.

  3. Click Play to test the method in the code example and view the results.

Search for Phrases

You can put a space between words to search for case insensitive text that begins with each word you specify. 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 character other than a space, Exchange converts the character to a space before searching.

Search Separators

Search lets you 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

The table that follows shows how each search term is interpreted depending 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

Exchange search features phrase search, which allows you to query for 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 the following 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

The table that follows shows how each search term is interpreted depending 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 Using Query Language

Using query language allows you to search assets by tags, categories, and custom fields.

Search by Tags

You can use the following structure to search by tags: tag:"some value" or tag:value

Double quotes are not necessary if the tag has no spaces.

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

You can use the following structure to search by categories: category:"some key" = "some value"

Double quotes are not necessary if the category has no spaces in the key or value.

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

Key and value are case sensitive, except that if you search for the value in lowercase it matches.

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, but you can’t search for multiple values of the same category.

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

The following 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

Similar to search by Categories, you can search for field instead category in the query language.

You can use the following structure to search by categories: field:"some key" = "some value"

Double quotes are not necessary if the custom field has no spaces in key or value.

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

Key and value are case sensitive, except that if you search for the value in lowercase it matches.

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

Searching API Specifications

Exchange searches these API specification properties:

  • API Title

  • Base URI

  • Endpoints

    • Path

    • Display name

    • Description Methods

    • Method type (GET, POST, …​)

    • Description

  • Query Parameters

    • Name

    • Description

  • URI Parameters

    • Name

  • Types

    • Name

    • Properties

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

API specification search example:

#%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 will be 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

leagues leagueId teams

Endpoint path

/leagues/{leagueId}/teams

Endpoint path

city

Type property name

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

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