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A URL pattern can be one of the following types:

• As a url-mapping. E.g., /state/town/*
• As a uri-template. E.g., /{state}/{town}

The terms url-mapping and uri-template come from synapse configuration language. When an API is published in the API Publisher, a corresponding XML definition is created in the API Gateway. This XML file has a dedicated section for defining resources. See examples below:

<resource methods="POST GET" url-mapping="/state/town/*">
<resource methods="POST GET" uri-template="/{state}/{town}">

url-mapping performs a one-to-one mapping with the request URL, whereas the uri-template performs a pattern matching.

Parametrizing the URL allows the API Manager to map the incoming requests to the defined resource templates based on the message content and request URI. Once a uri-template is matched, the parameters in the template are populated appropriately. As per the above example, a request made to http://gatewa_host:gateway_port/api/v1/texas/houston sets the value of state to texas and the value of town to houston. You can use these parameters within the synapse configuration for various purposes and gain access to these property values through the uri.var.state and uri.var.town properties. For more information on how to use these properties, see Introduction to REST API and the HTTP Endpoint of the WSO2 ESB documentation.

Also see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6570 on URI templates.