WSO2 API Manager How to prevent subscriber freely subscribe to API but keep the API visible

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WSO2 API Manager How to prevent subscriber freely subscribe to API but keep the API visible (how to add approval function before grant a subscription)

Could anyone assist on how to limit a subscriber to freely subscribe to an API? For example I have APIs called "contracts" and "parties", they are visible by user who has role "subscriber" hence subscriber can subscribes the both APIs. I would like to limit this so only authorized subscriber can subscribe to the API.

I understand that you can filter the API accessible by role - this is not the answer

I understand that you can block the subscription from publisher - this is also not the answer

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Geeth Munasinghe Geeth Munasinghe · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-18T05:45:10

Your problem can be solved using a workflow with WSO2 API Manager. When subscription workflow is enabled, whoever subscribes will be put on hold until the subscription is approved.

Please refer this document for more information.

WSO2 API Manager How to prevent subscriber freely subscribe to API but keep the API visible

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