Sending JSON Responses from a Proxy Service in WSO2 ESB

If you have come up with the requirement of sending JSON responses from a proxy service, then following proxy configuration can be used straightaway to try that out.

i.e. Create a proxy service named JSONProxy with the following content. Then, you can try that out by issuing HTTP GET to http://localhost:8280/services/JSONProxy

Proxy Configuration

<proxy xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse" name="JSONProxy" transports="https,http" 
       statistics="disable" trace="disable" startOnLoad="true"> 
   <target> 
      <inSequence> 
         <header name="To" action="remove"/> 
         <property name="RESPONSE" value="true"/> 
         <property name="NO_ENTITY_BODY" scope="axis2" action="remove"/> 
         <payloadFactory> 
            <format> 
               <person> 
                  <fullName> 
                     <firstName>Ruchira</firstName> 
                     <lastName>Wageesha</lastName> 
                  </fullName> 
                  <birthDate> 
                     <month>May</month> 
                     <date>31</date> 
                     <year>1984</year> 
                  </birthDate> 
                  <address> 
                     <street>Flower Road</street> 
                     <province>Western</province> 
                     <city>Colombo</city> 
                     <country>Sri Lanka</country> 
                     <postalCode>0007</postalCode> 
                  </address> 
               </person> 
            </format> 
         </payloadFactory> 
         <property name="messageType" value="application/json" scope="axis2"/> 
         <send/> 
      </inSequence> 
   </target> 
   <description></description> 
</proxy>

JSON Response

{
    "person": {
        "fullName": {
            "firstName": "Ruchira",
            "lastName": "Wageesha"
        },
        "birthDate": {
            "month": "May",
            "date": "31",
            "year": "1984"
        },
        "address": {
            "street": "Flower Road",
            "province": "Western",
            "city": "Colombo",
            "country": "Sri Lanka",
            "postalCode": "0007"
        }
    }
}