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WSO2 Developers' Guide

You're reading from   WSO2 Developers' Guide SOA and data services with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288317
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with SOA and WSO2 FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing Integration Projects with WSO2EI Tooling 3. Building Web Services 4. Building Data Services 5. Transforming the Content of the Payload 6. Conditional Route 7. Quality of Service 8. Tasks Scheduling 9. WSO2 Enterprise Integration Logging 10. WSO2 Enterprise Integration Testing 11. Integrating with VFS 12. Integrating with JMS - WSO2 EI Message Brokering 13. Introduction to Ballerina

Change the format of the content

We follow this use case when we already have content in the payload, but it might not be in the format that we need; for example, when our service receives a request in a specific format but the backend is waiting for a different format, or the backend sends us a message and we need to modify it to format the response to the client.
The best way to do this is with the use of Message type.

Message type

Message type is a synapse property that defines the message format of the current payload.
Here's the syntax:

<property name="messageType" value="string" scope="axis2"/>

In our flight example, we will change the response of the EI service to return the...

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