wso2 esb: Construct one message from multiple web service calls - web-services

Question

I have a number of web services each returning a list of user ids as follows:
<application name="abc">
<users>
<id>123</id>
<id>456</id>
<id>789</id>
</users>
</application>
I need to be able to
Call a proxy service with a specific id (for example 123);
Call each webservice and search for the ID;
Create a response for each webservice and finally
Aggregate all responses in one message which is sent to the client as follows:
<response>
<id>123</id>
<application name="abc">
found
</application>
<application name="lmn">
not found
</application>
<application name="xyz">
found
</application>
</response>
Its probably a mix of service chaining and aggregate, but I cannot figure out how to do it. I tried cloning a request and using send at the end with a receiving sequence which transforms the body using the payload factory. In the Out sequence I then used aggregate to combine the new messages. However it times out and I don't think it's a matter of timing. My main issue is how to create a new message from each webservice response the aggregate mediator can combine them.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

You need to follow this pattern, https://docs.wso2.com/display/IntegrationPatterns/Scatter-Gather and you are almost there. When you define receive sequence the response will be forwareded to that sequence and you wouldn't get the response message in outSequence. Use aggregator mediator inside the outSequence and Combine the responses rather than defining a receive sequence.
Once you aggregate the responses, you can use xslt mediator to transform the message.

Answer 2

I managed to solve my issue by creating a proxy service for each web servive. Each proxy service calls the actual web services and uses a filter in the out sequence to create a response likes this:
<application name="abc">
found
</application>
Then I created a REST API which takes the idno as a URI template. I then prepare a payload with this idno and clone the request to the proxy services I mentioned above. Then I aggregate the responses and add the idno in the payload.
If anybody has any questions let me know.