Mule HTTP parameter - http

Question

I created a service where you call the mule service via http:
<http:inbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response" host="localhost" port="8086" path="idnum" doc:name="HTTP"/>
so if you want to call this service you type:
http://localhost:8086/idnum
but what i want is for the http to accept an id number as a parameter and then store the id number into a variable so that i can use the id number. So the http would look like:
http://localhost:8086/idnum/4583948364094 for example.
So my question is how do you get the parameter from the url

Answer 1

From Mule-3.6 on wards, we have HTTP Listener Connector, using which you can pass URI parameters.
You can access the URI parameters using the below MEL
#[message.inboundProperties.'http.uri.params'.id] provided your URI should be like this: http://localhost:8086/idnum/{id}

Answer 2

You need to put the id as a message inbound parameter as following .. In Mule flow you need to do the following :-
<flow name="test">
<http:inbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response"
host="localhost" port="8086"
path="idnum" doc:name="HTTP"/>
<!-- storing id in variable myId -->
<set-variable variableName="myId"
value="#[message.inboundProperties['id']]"
doc:name="Variable"/>
<!-- Print the variable in console -->
<logger level="INFO" message="My id :- #[flowVars['myId']]"/>
</flow>
Now in browser access
http://localhost:8086/idnum/?id=4583948364094
Now you can store it in a variable in Mule and you can see it in a logger like:
My id :- 4583948364094