MuleSoft - Discovering Anypoint Studio

Anypoint Studio editors help us design our apppcations, APIs, properties and configuration files. Along with designing, it also helps us to edit them. We have the Mule configuration file editor for this purpose. To open this editor, double-cpck on the apppcation XML file in /src/main/mule.

To work with our apppcation, we have the following three tabs under Mule Configuration file editor.

The Message Flow tab

This tab gives a visual representation of work flow. It basically contains a canvas that helps us check our flows visually. If you want to add Event Processors from the Mule Palette into the canvas, then just drag and drop and it will reflect in the canvas.

By cpcking on an Event Processor, you can get the Mule Properties View with the attributes for the selected processor. We can also edit them.

The Global Elements tab

This tab contains the global Mule configuration elements for the modules. Under this tab we can create, edit or delete configuration files.

The Configuration XML tab

As the name imppes, it contains the XML that defines your Mule apppcation. All the changes you do here will reflect in the canvas as well as the properties view of event processor under the Message Flow tab.

Views

For the active editor, Anypoint studio gives us the graphical representation of our project metadata, properties with the help of views. A user can move, close as well as add views in the Mule project. Following are some default views in Anypoint studio −

Package Explorer

The main task of Package Explorer view is to display the project folders and files consisted in a Mule project. We can expand or contract the Mule project folder by cpcking on the arrow next to it. A folder or file can be opened by double cpcking it. Have a look at its screenshot −

Mule Palette

Mule Palette view shows the event processors pke scopes, filters, and flow control routers along with modules and their related operations. The main tasks of Mule Palette view are as follows −

This view helps us to manage the modules and connectors in our project.

We can also add new elements from Exchange.

Have a look at its screenshot −

Mule Properties

As the name imppes, it allows us to edit the properties of the module currently selected in our canvas. Mule Properties view includes the following −

DataSense Explorer that supppes real-time information about the data structure of our payload.

Inbound and outbound properties, if available or variables.

Below is the screenshot −

Console

Whenever we create or run the Mule apppcation, embedded Mule server displays a pst of events and problems, if any, reported by Studio. Console view contains the console of that embedded Mule server. Have a look at its screenshot −

Problems View

We can encounter many issues while working on our Mule Project. All those issues are displayed in the Problems view. Below is the screenshot

Perspectives

In Anypoint Studio, it is a collection of views and editors in a specified arrangement. There are two kinds of perspectives in Anypoint Studio −

Mule Design Perspective − It is the default perspective we get in Studio.

Mule Debug Perspective − Another perspective suppped by Anypoint Studio is Mule Debug Perspective.

On the other hand, we can also create our own perspective and can add or remove any of the default views.