API partner isolation

API partners can be organizations or users who expose their APIs through Developer Portal. As a Developer Portal administrator, you can enable partners to isolate their APIs so that the partners can determine the users or user groups that can access their APIs. Isolation of assets restricts the APIs that the providers have access to.

To use this feature, users must register to Developer Portal as API partners.

API partner capabilities

Capabilities of API partners include

Manage APIs
Partner users can publish APIs from webMethods API Gateway or create APIs in Developer Portal, enrich them, and assign the APIs to the private communities. To allow consumer users to view APIs, API partners can include them in the corresponding private communities. They can also unpublish or delete APIs.
Publish assets
Partners can publish their assets to
  • Private communities. Consumers who are part of the community can view and request applications to try those APIs. Other consumers cannot view those assets.
  • Public community. The public community does not support assets isolation based on partners.
API partners can also create their own communities. They cannot edit other communities.
Manage packages
Similar to APIs, partner users can publish packages from webMethods API Gateway to private communities. Consumers who are a part of the published communities can view the packages and subscribe to them.
View dashboard
API partners can view the analytics of APIs and applications usage from their Dashboard section. The dashboard section includes only the analytics of assets that are published by or owned by partners..
Manage Communities
When an API partner registers with Developer Portal, administrators can associate them with private communities as administrators. As community administrators, partners can manage their communities, the assets associated with their communities, and the community members.

Partners can also create their own communities and manage them.

API gallery
API partners can view the following APIs.
  • APIs that are published to the private communities that they are members of.
  • APIs that they published (regardless of their communities).
  • APIs that are assigned to them by other partners.
Change asset ownership
API partners can assign their assets to other partners; and the partners can manage the assigned to them by other partners. For more information, see Assigning asset ownership.