JSON Payload as String in Mediation

Due to the underlying synapse engine based on SOAP/XML message format, when a JSON payload is to be processed with ESB, it is being built as a XML message by default. In any case if we want to use the JSON payload as a string in our mediation, we will need to follow the below steps.

First the payload needs to be set as a string property as below :

<property name="JSONPayload" expression="json-eval($.)"/>

This property can then be used for any transformations as a string literal of the JSON.

Check out the sample below, which gets the response from the <call> mediator as a JSON, saves it to a string and then uses it in an xml payload. The final response of the API is XML.

<api xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse" name="JSONTestAPI" context="/json">
   <resource methods="GET">
      <inSequence>
         <call>
            <endpoint key="MockBackend"></endpoint>
         </call>
         <property name="JSONPayload" expression="json-eval($.)"></property>
         <log level="full">
            <property name="====JSONPayload====" expression="$ctx:JSONPayload"></property>
         </log>
         <payloadFactory media-type="xml">
            <format>
               <xmlPayload xmlns="">
                  <jsonPayload>$1</jsonPayload>
               </xmlPayload>
            </format>
            <args>
               <arg evaluator="xml" expression="$ctx:JSONPayload"></arg>
            </args>
         </payloadFactory>
         <property name="messageType" value="application/xml" scope="axis2"></property>
         <respond></respond>
      </inSequence>
   </resource>
</api>

Response from mock backend is as below :

{
  "mock":"mock service"
}

JSON payload will be logged as below when invoking the API. Notice that although the JSON payload is built to XML, the property preserves the payload as a string literal.

LogMediator To: http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/anonymous, WSAction: , SOAPAction: , MessageID: urn:uuid:08b4f213-0df0-4d18-88b7-8cf3e2d1872c, Direction: request, ====JSONPayload==== = {

   "mock":"mock service"

}, Envelope: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soapenv:Body><jsonObject><mock>mock service</mock></jsonObject></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>

Final response from the API is as below :

<xmlPayload>
      <jsonPayload>{"mock":"mock service"}</jsonPayload>
</xmlPayload>

Additional Reference : 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27848342/getpayloadjson-returning-an-empty-object