Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Developing and Deploying Custom Steps

• Custom Step Creation Overview
• Developing a Custom Step
  • About the execute Method
  • About Init and Destroy
  • About IResult States
  • About the AbstractStep Class
  • Setting Outgoing HTTP Headers in a Custom Step
  • Modifying the Content of SOAP Messages in a Custom Step
  • Adding Logs to a Custom Step
• Defining a Custom Step Template
• Deploying a Custom Step

2 Understanding the Sample Custom Step

• Understanding the Custom Authentication Step
  • Stepping Through the Lifecycle Using the init, execute, and destroy Methods
  • Accessing Data from the Message Context and Logging the Data
  • Setting Result Status and Authenticated User Name in the Message Context
  • Setting the Invocation Status for Operational Statistics
  • Custom Step Template
    • Defining displayType Properties in the Custom Step Template
    • Defining Fault Codes in the Custom Step Template
  • Custom Authentication Step Source Code
• Compiling and Running the Custom Authentication Step
  • Compiling the Custom Authentication Step
  • Deploying the customAuthenticationStep.jar File
  • Deploying the Custom Authentication Step Template
  • Adding the Custom Authentication Step to a Policy
  • Testing the Custom Authentication Step
• Checking Monitoring Data

3 Policy Steps SDK Interfaces & Methods

• IStep
  • setEnabled()
  • getEnabled()
  • setStepName()
  • getStepName()
  • getAgentContext()
  • setAgentContext()
  • execute()
  • init()
  • destroy()
  • setFaultCodes()
  • getFaultCodes()
• AbstractStep
  • createResult()
  • setEnabled()
  • getEnabled()
  • setStepName()
  • getStepName()
  • getAgentContext()
  • setAgentContext()
  • execute()
  • init()
  • generateFault()
  • destroy()
  • setFaultCodes()
  • getFaultCodes()
  • createResult()
• IContext
  • getProperty()
  • getPropertyNames()
  • containsProperty()
  • setProperty()
  • removeProperty()
• IMessageContext
  • MessageContext() Fields
    • STAGE_PREREQUEST
    • STAGE_REQUEST
    • STAGE_RESPONSE
    • STAGE_POSTRESPONSE
    • STAGE_SERVICE
    • STAGE_SERVICE_DEFINITION
    • STAGE_SERVICE_WSDL
  • getGUID()
  • getServiceID()
  • getServiceURL()
  • getRemoteUser()
  • getRequestMessage()
  • getResponseMessage()
  • setRequestMessage()
  • setResponseMessage()
  • getProcessingStage()
  • setProcessingStage()
  • getInvocationStatus()
• IResult
  • getStatus()
  • setStatus()
  • getFault()
  • setFault()
• Result
  • getStatus()
  • setStatus()
  • getFault()
  • setFault()
  • toString()
• AgentContext
  • AgentContext Fields
    • SERVER_ID
    • LOG_LOGBUNDLES
    • LOG_LOGENABLED
    • COREMAN_ENABLED
    • POLICYSERVER_ENDPOINT
    • POLICYSERVER_ENABLED
    • POLICYPACKS_FILENAME
  • getAgentID()
  • getProperty()
  • getStringProperty()
  • getIntProperty()
  • getIntProperty()
  • getResourceResolver()
  • getAllProperties()
• InvocationStatus
  • InvocationStatus() Fields
    • SUCCEEDED
    • FAILED
    • FAILEDOVER
    • PENDING
    • NA
  • getServiceName()
  • setServiceName()
  • getTime()
  • setTime()
  • getAuthenticationStatus()
  • setAuthenticationStatus()
  • getAuthorizationStatus()
  • setAuthorizationStatus()
  • getServiceStatus()
  • setServiceStatus()
  • getInvocationStatus()
  • setInvocationStatus()
  • getSize()
  • setSize()
  • getLatency()
  • setLatency()
  • getServiceLatency()
  • setServiceLatency()
  • getFlowID()
  • setFlowID()
  • getMethod()
  • setMethod()
  • getCorrelationContext()
  • setCorrelationContext()
  • getMessageId()
  • setMessageId()
  • getErrorMessage()
  • setErrorMessage()
  • toString()
• Fault
  • getFaultNS()
  • getFaultString()
  • getFaultDetail()
  • getFaultActor()
  • getQualifiedFaultCode()
  • getFaultCodeQualifier()
  • getFaultCode()
  • getFaultDetailsAsString()

A Custom Step Source Code and Step Template

• Custom Step Source Code
• Custom Step Template

B Step Template Schema

• Step Template Schema

Index