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Status Under review
Workspace API Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 12, 2025

Drupal hook for application pre-update

Customer is doing integration between Developer Portal and external database system storing customer data like client-id, app name etc. The idea is that if developer portal user do changes e.g. application name in Developer Portal UI then changes should be automatically propagated to external database.
There is already hook for that kind of synchronization described below: hook_apic_app_update
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/api-connect/10.0.8_lts?topic=extend-custom-module-development-using-hooks

It is easy to make successful synchronization between those 2 systems but there is a problem to ensure consistency between the systems in case if communication from Developer Portal fails for some reason – e.g. network issue or external database is down.
We are able to show error message to the end user but new data are still updated in Developer Portal while not updated in external system. We have this solution currently implemented and running on Production and it's causing us some data inconsistency problem in some specific situations.

I can see that following "pre" hooks are supported:
hook_apic_app_pre_delete
hook_apic_app_credential_pre_delete

Ideally would be to have a hook like:
hook_apic_app_PRE_update where we can perform synchronization request and in case of issue stop the update in Developer Portal (throwing some error).

Idea priority Medium