Service Callout policy vs. Route Rules

[pranavchaudhary]

If SC Policy is to be used when you want to call more than 1 target how is it different from Route Rules?

[pranavchaudhary]

@Sai Saran Vaidyanathan

[ssvaidyanathan]

Hope Sidhdharth's answer helped

[sidd-harth]

Hi @Pranav Chaudhary, if you want to call a third party REST API from within a flow, we use SC Policy.

Let's say you have a single TargetEnpoint, which is protected via 3rd party OAuth token. So before hitting this target endpoint, you can make a call to your 3rd party REST OAuth service using SC Policy, get the token and set it as a header.

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If you have multiple TargetEdpoints, you can use Route Rules with conditions to call a specific TargetEndpoint,

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If you have more than one target and want to loadbalance between them, then use Target Servers with LoadBalancer.