Including elements in your API assembly

An assembly is formed of elements that are applied to calls to and responses from operations in your API. Elements can be either policies or logic constructs.

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Note:
  • This task relates to configuring an OpenAPI 3.0 API definition. For details on how to configure an OpenAPI 2.0 API definition, see Editing an OpenAPI 2.0 API definition.
  • OpenAPI 3.0 APIs are supported only with the DataPower® API Gateway, not with the DataPower Gateway (v5 compatible).
  • For details of current OpenAPI 3.0 support limitations, see OpenAPI 3.0 support in IBM® API Connect.

In the Policies view of IBM API Connect, you can add and configure elements in your assembly. You can also directly add elements to the OpenAPI definition of your API.