Generate Flows From RAML Using Manage Dependency

In this tutorial we will Generate Flows From RAML Using Manage Dependency, This is one of the easiest way to generate the flow from RAML, in that case raml will be referred from Anypoint Exchange directly and a dependency will be added in POM.xml

Create a sample RAML in design center

#%RAML 1.0
baseUri: https://anypoint.mulesoft.com/mocking/api/v1/links/ba98d886-7a16-4c6e-9e62-d3a8723dffe2/ # 
title: employee
description: This API is to retrieve employeeid
version: v1
mediaType:  [ application/json ]
protocols:
  - HTTP
/employee:
  get:
    displayName: Retrieve employee
    description: Retrieve employee by empid
    queryParameters:
      empId:
          type: string
          description: "EmpId"
          example: "342343"
          required: true
    responses:
      200:
        description: Success response of employee
        body:
          application/json:

Publish the API on Exchange, see below Employee API is published on exchange with version 1.0.0

Create a sample project in anypoint studio

Right Click on manage dependency-> Click on Manage API

New Window Open-> Click on + Sign and click on From Exchange

A new search window will open to search modules/api from exchange

Search Employee API and click on Finish

A new window will open with API name and version -> Click on Apply

When we click on apply it will ask for scaffold the API, click on Yes

It will give the success message, click on Apply and Close

We can see the scaffolding complete successfully and flows are generated as shown below and employee.xml file generated

Project deployed successfully

In next step we will add one more resource in RAML and try to publish the same on exchange with new version and see how can we regenerate the flows using manage dependency

We have added one more resource as employeeaddress

#%RAML 1.0
baseUri: https://anypoint.mulesoft.com/mocking/api/v1/links/ba98d886-7a16-4c6e-9e62-d3a8723dffe2/ # 
title: employee
description: This API is to retrieve employeeid
version: v1
mediaType:  [ application/json ]
protocols:
  - HTTP

/employee:
  get:
    displayName: Retrieve employee
    description: Retrieve employee by empid
    queryParameters:
      empId:
          type: string
          description: "EmpId"
          example: "342343"
          required: true
    responses:
      200:
        description: Success repsonse of employee
        body:
          application/json:

/employeeaddress:
  get:
    displayName: Retrieve address
    description: Retrieve address by addid
    queryParameters:
      empId:
          type: string
          description: "addid"
          example: "efrd"
          required: true
    responses:
      200:
        description: Success repsonse of addid
        body:
          application/json:

Publish the API on exchange with new version 1.0.2

Go to Anypoint Studio and Right click on project as mentioned above

Click on check for updates as shown below

click on update all dependencies and click on Update Version and Apply

Again scaffolding will happen and completed successfully and one more flow generated for employeeaddress

Deploy the project

We can see employee-1.0.2-raml.zip added in anypoint project as a dependency

Updated Mule Flow

In Pom.xml also raml dependency added

Sample Application: generateflowsfromraml sample application