Unable to add parameters to api path containing "." character

Question

I'm using WSO2 API Manager Version 2.0.0. Within the API Publisher, I added a POST endpoint to my API using an in path parameter.

POST /person/{id}

Everything works fine. The path parameter id is added to the endpoint.

But this does not work if the path contains a . character somewhere. Adding POST /cool.person/{id} will result in an empty parameter list. Also, it is not possible to add a parameter manually to this endpoint.

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Answer 1

According to my knowledge and due my findings on this, both POST /person/{id} and POST /cool.person/{id} are correct. I think the issue is in your endpoint, your end point is not giving permission to you to add another entry via a POST method. I followed your path and I couldn't reproduce your situation, but I found that need permission from endpoint to put another entry there. I'll attach my synaps file and snap shot of the response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<api xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse"
     name="admin--UrlTest"
     context="/paternType/1.0"
     version="1.0"
     version-type="context">
   <resource methods="POST" url-mapping="/persons.list" faultSequence="fault">
      <inSequence>
         <property name="api.ut.backendRequestTime"
                   expression="get-property('SYSTEM_TIME')"/>
         <filter source="$ctx:AM_KEY_TYPE" regex="PRODUCTION">
            <then>
               <send>
                  <endpoint name="admin--UrlTest_APIproductionEndpoint_0">
                     <http uri-template="http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?"/>
                     <property name="ENDPOINT_ADDRESS"
                               value="http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?"/>
                  </endpoint>
               </send>
            </then>
            <else>
               <send>
                  <endpoint name="admin--UrlTest_APIsandboxEndpoint_0">
                     <http uri-template="http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?"/>
                     <property name="ENDPOINT_ADDRESS"
                               value="http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?"/>
                  </endpoint>
               </send>
            </else>
         </filter>
      </inSequence>
      <outSequence>
         <class name="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.usage.publisher.APIMgtResponseHandler"/>
         <send/>
      </outSequence>
   </resource>
   <resource methods="POST" url-mapping="/persons" faultSequence="fault">
      <inSequence>
         <property name="api.ut.backendRequestTime"
                   expression="get-property('SYSTEM_TIME')"/>
         <filter source="$ctx:AM_KEY_TYPE" regex="PRODUCTION">
            <then>
               <send>
                  <endpoint name="admin--UrlTest_APIproductionEndpoint_1">
                     <http uri-template="http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?"/>
                     <property name="ENDPOINT_ADDRESS"
                               value="http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?"/>
                  </endpoint>
               </send>
            </then>
            <else>
               <send>
                  <endpoint name="admin--UrlTest_APIsandboxEndpoint_1">
                     <http uri-template="http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?"/>
                     <property name="ENDPOINT_ADDRESS"
                               value="http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?"/>
                  </endpoint>
               </send>
            </else>
         </filter>
      </inSequence>
      <outSequence>
         <class name="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.usage.publisher.APIMgtResponseHandler"/>
         <send/>
      </outSequence>
   </resource>
   <resource methods="GET" url-mapping="/personlist" faultSequence="fault">
      <inSequence>
         <property name="api.ut.backendRequestTime"
                   expression="get-property('SYSTEM_TIME')"/>
         <filter source="$ctx:AM_KEY_TYPE" regex="PRODUCTION">
            <then>
               <send>
                  <endpoint name="admin--UrlTest_APIproductionEndpoint_2">
                     <http uri-template="http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?"/>
                     <property name="ENDPOINT_ADDRESS"
                               value="http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?"/>
                  </endpoint>
               </send>
            </then>
            <else>
               <send>
                  <endpoint name="admin--UrlTest_APIsandboxEndpoint_2">
                     <http uri-template="http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?"/>
                     <property name="ENDPOINT_ADDRESS"
                               value="http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?"/>
                  </endpoint>
               </send>
            </else>
         </filter>
      </inSequence>
      <outSequence>
         <class name="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.usage.publisher.APIMgtResponseHandler"/>
         <send/>
      </outSequence>
   </resource>
   <handlers>
      <handler class="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.gateway.handlers.common.APIMgtLatencyStatsHandler"/>
      <handler class="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.gateway.handlers.security.CORSRequestHandler">
         <property name="apiImplementationType" value="ENDPOINT"/>
      </handler>
      <handler class="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.gateway.handlers.security.APIAuthenticationHandler"/>
      <handler class="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.gateway.handlers.throttling.ThrottleHandler"/>
      <handler class="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.usage.publisher.APIMgtUsageHandler"/>
      <handler class="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.usage.publisher.APIMgtGoogleAnalyticsTrackingHandler">
         <property name="configKey" value="gov:/apimgt/statistics/ga-config.xml"/>
      </handler>
      <handler class="org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.gateway.handlers.ext.APIManagerExtensionHandler"/>
   </handlers>
</api>

Jeewana.