Multiple Copies of Self Hosted Web API

[SBarnes]

Hi Mike,

Is there a way to run multiple copies of the Self Hosted Web API on the same machine that would talk to different databases i.e would the following work?

1 .Copy the Jiwa Program Directory.
2. Use install util to register a second version of the service
3. Configure both config files accordingly
4. Start both services

[Mike.Sheen]

Yes.

We have some guidance on how to do this for the plugin scheduler service, and the same would apply to this.

[Mike.Sheen]

You're going to ask next for a way to limit which IJiwaRESTAPI plugin classes are loaded / exposed per service, aren't you!

[SBarnes]

Ah actually I wasn't because I was actually thinking inter-company communication i.e. two separate databases but now that you've so kindly volunteered to tell me there must obviously be a way?

[Mike.Sheen]

For multiple services hitting the same database, you could look at Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location to reveal the file location of the service, then selectively add routes in the plugin based on that.

I've done this before with the Plugin Scheduler, before we had the ability to limit which plugins are executed via the config - so it should work also for the REST API self-hosted service. Not sure how to do this with IIS/App Service - probably there is a way to limit based on base URL.

[SBarnes]

The only other way I could think of would be to have different users /user groups and permissions for the paths through the user interface.