CA API Gateway: How to obtain PID from Context Variables

[Legacy User]

Hi,

 

I'm working on CA API Gateway - Policy Manager 9.3.

Is it possible to obtain the PID from Context Variable Properties?

[Seiji Moriyama]

Hello,

 

Would you please explain what you'd like to do a bit further?

I thought the "PID" meant "Process ID" first, but it looks not fitting into Context Variable Properties.

 

Best regards,

Seiji

[Legacy User]

Hi Seiji,

 

Thank you.

Yes you are right, I need to obtain the Process ID from a RESTful service. How is it possible to retrieve it?

 

Best Regards,

[Remco Dekker]

You might be able to build a custom assertion and retrieve some system info, including the Process ID. Build a restful service around will be easy.

[Seiji Moriyama]

Hi Gianpy82,

 

I think the RESTful services on a CA API Gateway will return the same Process ID even if you can obtain it, because the API Gateway is running as a single Java process.

Could you please tell us what's your purpose of getting the Process ID? It looks not much valuable to know the PID.

 

Best regards,

Seiji

[Stephen Hughes]

Good morning,

 

As Seiji mentioned, all services are encapsulated as one process ID within the main Gateway process. If you looking for granularity of the process and even on a request by request level, you may want to look at using the context variable requestId (General Context Variables - CA API Gateway - 9.3 - CA Technologies Documentation ). 

 

Sincerely,

 

Stephen Hughes

Broadcom Support