Multiple Assign Messsage Policies or 1 JS Policy, Which is more efficient and has better performance

[zaheen555]

Hi team,

I have an inbound GET request like this

example.com?name=abc&id=123&age=29

I need to set the target url to the following

example2.com/abc/123/29

in the inbound request, some query parameters are mandatory, some can be empty so its a bit tricky to set the target url

I can use one JS policy with if/else conditions to set the target url OR I can use multiple(could be 3 or 4) conditional Assign Message policies to achieve the same. 

if request.queryparam.name!=null, use one Assign message policy OR if request.queryparam.name== null, use another Assign message policy and so on...

Which is more efficient and which approach should I take?

Thanks

[dknezic]

Is there some consistent order to the URL path eg /name/id/age? or do you expect to just use the order of the request query parameters because client could send these in different order each time .. 

[dchiesa1]

I would not prioritize "performance".  Instead focus on readability and maintainability. 

You can use AssignMessage  to accomplish what you want, maybe in a single policy. For example, if the name and id queryparams are optional, you can do this: 

<AssignMessage name='AM-Target-URL'>
  <AssignVariable> 
    <Name>segment1</Name>
    <Ref>request.queryparam.name</Ref>
    <Value>default-name</Value> <!-- fallback -->
  </AssignVariable>
  <AssignVariable> 
    <Name>segment2</Name>
    <Ref>request.queryparam.id</Ref>
    <Value>default-for-segment2</Value> 
  </AssignVariable>
  <AssignVariable> 
    <Name>target.url</Name>
    <Template>/{segment1}/{segment2}</Template>
  </AssignVariable>
</AssignMessage>

 This feels pretty readable to me. 

But it's a simple case. If the situation is more complicated, for example if there is some mapping between the qparam and the deisired path segment, then, a JavaScript policy with a lookup table might be more readable. Eg if the name qparam is "abc" then the pathsegment should be "xyz".  In that case i might want to use JavaScript, with maybe some constants defined in a  properties file.