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<document>
<properties>
<title>Apache Synapse - Sample 420</title>
</properties>
<body>
<section name="Sample 420: Simple Response Caching Scenario">
<div class="xmlConf">&lt;definitions xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse"&gt;
&lt;sequence name="main"&gt;
&lt;in&gt;
&lt;cache timeout="20" scope="per-host" collector="false"
hashGenerator="org.wso2.caching.digest.DOMHASHGenerator"&gt;
&lt;implementation type="memory" maxSize="100"/&gt;
&lt;/cache&gt;
&lt;send&gt;
&lt;endpoint&gt;
&lt;address uri="http://localhost:9000/services/SimpleStockQuoteService"/&gt;
&lt;/endpoint&gt;
&lt;/send&gt;
&lt;/in&gt;
&lt;out&gt;
&lt;cache collector="true"/&gt;
&lt;send/&gt;
&lt;/out&gt;
&lt;/sequence&gt;
&lt;/definitions&gt;</div>
<subsection name="Objective">
<p>
Showcase the caching capabilities of Synapse by implementing a simple response
cache in Synapse for an actual service deployed on Axis2
</p>
</subsection>
<subsection name="Pre-requisites">
<p>
<ul>
<li>
Deploy the SimpleStockQuoteService in the sample Axis2 server and start Axis2
</li>
<li>
Start Synapse using the configuration numbered 420 (repository/conf/sample/synapse_sample_420.xml)
<div class="command">
Unix/Linux: sh synapse.sh -sample 420<br/>
Windows: synapse.bat -sample 420
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</p>
</subsection>
<subsection name="Executing the Client">
<p>
In this sample, the message sent to Synapse is checked for an existing cached
response by calculating the hash value of the request. If there is a cache hit
in Synapse, then this request will not be forwarded to the actual service. Rather,
Synapse responds to the client with the cached response. In case of a cache miss
that particular message will be forwarded to the actual service and caches that
response in the out path for the use of consecutive requests of the same type.
</p>
<p>
To try out this scenario, send a request from the sample client as follows.
</p>
<div class="command">ant stockquote -Dtrpurl=http://localhost:8280/</div>
<p>
You will notice that if you send more than one requests within 20 seconds, only
the first request is forwarded to the actual service, and the rest of the requests
will be served by the cache inside Synapse. You could observe this by looking at
the logs printed by the Axis2 server, as well as by observing a constant quote value in
the response to the client instead of the random rate, which changes by each and
every 20 seconds.
</p>
</subsection>
</section>
<p><a href="../samples.html">Back to Catalog</a></p>
</body>
</document>