Mastering Azure API Management: A Practical Approach to Designing and Implementing an API-Centric Enterprise Architecture

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S. MalvikMastering Azure API Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8011-9_7

7. Policies and Named Values

Sven Malvik¹  

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Fjerdingby, Norway

 

In the previous chapters, we focused on how to manage APIs, products, users, groups, and subscriptions. While all these entities are necessary for describing who can call what API, we have not talked about how Azure API Management can help to alter the behavior of an API. Let me give you three examples of why this might be interesting for you:

• API migration: Instead of sending all petstore requests to the same legacy petstore backend API, you might want to send the requests of one operation to a new and modern ...