wso2 api manager path pattern issue - wso2

Question

I'm having issue with what I feel is a simple url pattern match, but seeing unexpected behavior for an API I created.
I set up the API, and when I place the "URL Pattern", I do something simple like "/player/{playerId}"
When I go to the next screen to input the endpoint information, I reference my path variable as it appears in the documentation, like http://mycoolendpoint.com/playerInfo/{uri.var.playerId}
What I end up seeing is that the entire URL pattern is being appended to my endpoint. So, in the above, instead of seeing the expected http://mycoolendpoint.com/playerInfo/111, I see coming across the wire http://mycoolendpoint.com/playerInfo/111/player/111
Am I setting up something wrong when I do this syntax that it's appending the entire URL pattern to the Sandbox and Production endpoints instead of just the value of the path variable?

Answer 1

API's resource is normally appended to its endpoint URL by API Manager by default So to avoid this you can follow below instructions,
Create a custom sequence with the following content and save it as a .xml file.
<sequence xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse" name="TestSequence">
<property name="REST_URL_POSTFIX" scope="axis2" action="remove"/>
</sequence>
Now edit your API in publisher. In design view go to "Message Mediation Policies" section and Enable Message mediation. Now add a In Flow and upload the previously saved sequence.

Answer 2

There are 2 ways you can do this by defining your API like below.
1) Define resource like this.
playerInfo/{playerId}
and define endpoint like this.
http://mycoolendpoint.com/
Or
2) Define resource like this.
/{playerId}
and define endpoint like this.
http://mycoolendpoint.com/playerInfo/
Or you can also do this as #ycr has mentioned. If you want to do that change for all APIs without creating a custom sequence file, you can add below line inside InSequence section of <APIM_HOME>/repository/resources/api_templates/velocity_template.xml file.
<property name="REST_URL_POSTFIX" scope="axis2" action="remove"/>
This template is used when APIM creates synapse files of new APIs.