Adding a User Signup Workflow

This section explains how to attach a custom workflow to the user signup operation in the API Manager. First, see Workflow Extensions for information on different types of workflow executors.

Configuring the Business Process Server

1. Download WSO2 Business Process Server.

2. Set an offset of 2 to the default BPS port in <BPS_HOME>/repository/conf/carbon.xml file. This prevents port conflicts that occur when you start more than one WSO2 product on the same server. Also see Changing the Default Ports with Offset.

   <Offset>2</Offset>

3. Copy the following from <APIM_HOME>/business-processes/epr to <BPS_HOME>/repository/conf/epr folder. If the  <BPS_HOME>/repository/conf/epr  folder isn't there, please create it.

   • UserSignupService.epr

   • UserSignupProcess.epr

4. Start the BPS server and log in to its management console (https://<Server Host>:9443+<port offset>/carbon).  

5. Select Add under Processes menu and upload the <APIM_HOME>/business-processes/user-signup/BPEL/UserSignupApprovalProcess_1.0.0.zip file to BPS. This is the business process archive file.
   

6. Select  Add  under the  Human Tasks  menu and upload  <APIM_HOME>/business-processes/user-signup/HumanTask/UserApprovalTask-1.0.0.zip to BPS. This is the human task archived file.

Engaging the WS Workflow Executor in the API Manager

First, enable the user signup workflow.

1. Log in to APIM management console (https://<Server Host>:9443/carbon) and select Browse under Resources.
   

   Open

   

2. Go to /_system/governance/apimgt/applicationdata/workflow-extensions.xml resource, d isable the Simple Workflow Executor and enable WS Workflow Executor. Also specify the service endpoint where the workflow engine is hosted and the credentials required to access the said service via basic authentication (i.e., username/password based authentication).

   <WorkFlowExtensions>   ... <UserSignUp executor="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl.workflow.UserSignUpWSWorkflowExecutor"> <Property name="serviceEndpoint">http://localhost:9765/services/UserSignupProcess/</Property> <Property name="username">admin</Property> <Property name="password">admin</Property> <Property name="callbackURL">https://localhost:8243/services/WorkflowCallbackService</Property> </UserSignUp> ... </WorkFlowExtensions>

3. Go to the API Store Web interface and sign up.
   It invokes the signup process and creates a Human Task instance that holds the execution of the BPEL until some action is performed on it.

4. Note the message that appears if the BPEL is invoked correctly, saying that the request is successfully submitted. 

5. Log in to the Admin Dashboard Web application ( https://<Server Host>:9443/admin-dashboard ) and approve the user signup task. It resumes the BPEL process and completes the signup process.

6. Go back to the API Store and see that the user is now registered.

   Whenever a user tries to sign up to the API Store, a request of the following format is sent to the workflow endpoint:

   <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:wor="http://workflow.subscription.apimgt.carbon.wso2.org"> <soapenv:Header /> <soapenv:Body> <wor:registerUser xmlns:wor="http://workflow.registeruser.apimgt.carbon.wso2.org"> <wor:userName>sampleuser</wor:userName> <wor:tenantDomain>foo.com</wor:tenantDomain> <wor:workflowExternalRef>c0aad878-278c-4439-8d7e-712ee71d3f1c</wor:workflowExternalRef> <wor:callbackURL>https://localhost:8243/services/WorkflowCallbackService</wor:callBackURL> </wor:registerUser> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>

   Elements of the above configuration are described below: