Automate Build and Deploy

You can also automate the revision, building, and deployment of a policy. You can configure for automating in build.properties file.

To automate revision and deployment of customized policies:

1. Open the build.properties file in a text editor.
2. Set the following values.

   policyName={policy name}
   jarPrefix= {prefix to the policy jar} 
   policy-sdk={location of the policy sdk}
   
   autoRevision=false
   autoDeploy=false
   
   ### if either 'autoRevision' or 'autoDeploy"
   ### properties are set to 'true', then the
   ### properties below must be set as well
   
   mgmtServerHost=http:// {host name}
   mgmtServerPort= {port number}
   mgmtServerUser= {admin user name}
   mgmtServerPass= {password}

   For example,

   policyName=mypolicy
   jarPrefix=apiplatform.policies
   policy-sdk=/home/apics/labs/policy-develop/policy-sdk
   
   autoRevision=true
   autoDeploy=true
   
   ### if either 'autoRevision' or 'autoDeploy"
   ### properties are set to 'true', then the
   ### properties below must be set as well
   
   mgmtServerHost= http://apics.xyz.com
   mgmtServerPort= 7006
   mgmtServerUser= admin
   mgmtServerPass= pass123

3. Save the changes and close the text editor.
4. Execute the ant script build.xml from eclipse.
5. Once the script finishes, you can find the new file in the root folder and it is also automatically deployed to the management tier.
6. Go to the API implementation tab and check for the policy under the Available Policies, Others category.

   If the API Management Tier is open when policy is deployed, the new customized policy does not appear. Do a force browser refresh - Ctrl + F5 and APIP Management Tier reloads the policies.