Request /Response flow variable

[ateebshaik]

I have a shared flow with two policies .Example Policy1,Policy2. I would like to apply a condition to run policy 1 in request flow and policy 2 in response flow. My shared flow will be attached in both request and response flows.

How can i achieve this. I do not see any apigee predefined flow variable to differentiate the request and response.

[ssvaidyanathan]

HI @Mohammad Ateeb Shaik - The concept of Shared flow is to have policies that are commonly used and executed at runtime. Would not be a good idea to split it like that. You can either break them down into two different Shared flows and use them appropriately

[ateebshaik]

Hi Saran,

Thanks for the quick reply.I agree with you however i am looking to reduce the no of shared flows i can maintain and was looking if we can achieve the above by applying logical condition before executing the policy .

[ssvaidyanathan]

Agree but there isn't a particular variable in this case.

[Feroz_Mahammad]

@Mohammad Ateeb Shaik, Have you explored the timestamp flow variables like client.received.start.timestamp & client.sent.start.timestamp which gets populated in Proxy request & response flows respectively? Similarly there are other timestamp variables which you can leverage in Target request & response flows as well. Pls refer the variable reference for more details.

[#6]

HI @Mohammad Ateeb Shaik

You can achieve this by following condition;

Same shared flow for two policies

For Request Flow;

<Condition>response == null</Condition>

For Response Flow;

<Condition>response != null</Condition>