55.7. Extra Options

Overview

The extraOptions options are usually used to either compute or hide complex API parameters by providing simpler options instead. For example, the API method might take a POJO option, that could be provided more easily as parts of the POJO in the URI. The component could do this by adding the parts as extra options, and creating the POJO parameter internally. To complete the implementation of these extra options, you also need to override the interceptProperties method in the EndpointConsumer and/or EndpointProducer classes (see Section 54.4, “Programming Model”).

Syntax

The extraOptions element can be defined with one or more extraOption child elements, as follows: 
<extraOptions>
  <extraOption>
    <type>TypeName</type>
    <name>OptionName</name>
  </extraOption>
</extraOptions>
Where TypeName is the fully-qualified type name of the extra option and OptionName is the name of the extra URI option.

Scope

As shown in the following extract, the extraOptions element can optionally appear as a child of the apis element and/or as a child of api elements: 
<configuration>
  <apis>
    <api>
      <apiName>...</apiName>
      ...
 <extraOptions>...</extraOptions>
    </api>
 <extraOptions>...</extraOptions>
    ...
  </apis>
</configuration>
You can define the extraOptions element at the following scopes:
  • As a child of an api element—the extraOptions apply only to the API class specified by the api element.
  • As a child of the apis element—the extraOptions apply to all API classes by default, but can be overridden at the api level.

Child elements

Each extraOptions element can be defined with the following child elements:
type
Specifies the fully-qualified type name of the extra option.
name
Specifies the option name, as it would appear in an endpoint URI.

Example

The following example defines an extra URI option, customOption, which is of java.util.list<String> type: 
<extraOptions>
  <extraOption>
    <type>java.util.List&lt;String&gt;</type>
    <name>customOption</name>
  </extraOption>
</extraOptions>