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Status Under review
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 9, 2025

Return the full path (not just the immediate parent folder) of the business rule element in the DC REST API's.

Most business now employ DC REST API's for business reporting for business rules deployed in Business Console. The REST API's json response shows the listing all the business rules under the element list. For each business rules (both action rules and decision tables) we see a complete listing of the business rule properties e.g. name, type, createdBy, status etc which is great. The issue with "name": "rulePackage" ("label": "Folder") is that the value only shows the immediate parent folder and not the complete hierarchy of the folder . In order to determine the full folder path, one has to execute supplementary DC REST API call "to retrieve a listing of the all folders and from that using the "parentId" <-> "id" to infer the folder hierarchy of the business rule. Attached the json responses in a txt file. This process appears to cumbersome, clunky, laborious and unscalable for last scale deployment given:

- 3000 business rules that we are reporting for in our rule project.

- Folder hierarchies that run up-to 5 levels

- Labourius recessive lookup of the parentId until we find "null" to derive the full folder path

It would be most optimal for the customers to see the full path of the business rule instead of just the immediate parent folder. This will avoid an additional REST Call, iterative compute and derivation and improve the accuracy of the DC REST API's. the arguments business typically have is when Decision Center business rule details tab show the full path why shouldn't the retrieve list of query (and other related RESTAPI's ) return the full path?

Let use an example, the action rule (PC00000001 JK_TEST_PROFILE )is located in

Project : cargo-profiling-rules

Folder : Profiles/Alerts/Regions

From the rest API response: property returned for action rule (PC00000001 JK_TEST_PROFILE)

{

"name": "rulePackage",

"value": "Regions",

"label": "Folder"

},

As seen above only the most immediate folder name is returned not the full path. This issue applies to both the action rules and decision tables . This issue applies to all REST API's that return business rule details. In this case it was "List of elements returned by the query"

curl -X 'GET' \

'http://localhost:9580/decisioncenter-api/v1/projects/75f3a15f-67ed-4458-9e04-c9d1012f76ce/queries/cc97a932-c72f-470a-a91d-c8c32a755fe9%20/run?datasource=jdbc%2FilogDataSource' \

-H 'accept: */*'

Idea priority High