Visibility settings prevent certain user roles from viewing and modifying APIs created by another user role. This feature allows you to restrict the ability to view and modify APIs for a set of users.
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Users with APIM admin permission are treated differently. Even if an API is restricted to certain set of creators of publishers, it will be visible to all the API creators and publishers with APIM admin rolethe API-M admin permission. |
Using the REST API
You can use the existing REST API to add a new API. To create an API with publisher access control restriction, add the two elements shown below in your request body,
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The publisher role cache is enabled by default in API Manager. This is to avoid sending repeated requests to the Key Manager node in a distributed deployment, to authenticate user roles. You can disable the feature by disabling
Note that if disabled it results in lowering performance due to repeatedly accessing the Key Manager. |