How it works
This feature enables the users in the same organization (group) to share the applications and subscriptions. All the applications and subscriptions created by a user in an organization, are visible to the other users in the same organisation.
How does API Manager know the organization of a user ?
WSO2 API Manager Store and Publisher web apps support more than one authentication mechanism. e.g. Authentication via Carbon user stores, SAML based SSO.
As a result, the way the organization of a user should be determined accordingly.
API Manager is shipped with a default implementation for the default authentication mechanism, and API Manager has the flexibility to plug-in a different implementation.
This article explains how application / subscription sharing can be done with the default implementation.
Enabling application / subscription sharing
Uncomment the following line in APIM_HOME/repository/conf/api-manager.xml
<GroupingExtractor>org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl.DefaultGroupIDExtractorImpl</GroupingExtractor>
Use case
1) A user and give his/her organization during the signing up process. ( See Fig. 1).
user_a and user_b belongs to org_1
Fig. 1
2) Then the user create a new application. (See Fig. 2)
user_a creates app_a.
Fig. 2
3) Since user_b also belongs to org_1 he can see the application which user_a created. ( See Fig. 3)
Fig. 3
4) user_a subscribes to WeatherAPI (See Fig. 4)
Fig. 4
5) Since user_b also belongs to org_1 he can see the subscription to WeatherAPI.
( See Fig. 5)
Fig. 5
