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Flexible Subflow Instances: We need additional instances for child subflows under the REST API-generated implementation subflow.

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It would be much better if we had additional instances for child subflows under the REST API-generated subflow. This would allow us to associate all operations (request and response subflows) in one place, especially when dealing with asynchronous nodes within those flows.


 If we have multiple implementations under one message flow, instances will be shared between the two implementations, making it very complicated to manage the sharing between asynchronous nodes.

Idea priority High
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    Ben Thompson
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    Feb 25, 2025

    An ACE REST API is deliberately designed to have one parent flow (which relates to a specific HTTP URL fragment and uses a specific integration server wide port) with an associated subflow per REST API operation defined within the Open API / Swagger document defining the REST API. Alternatively if you'd like to, you could utilize separate HTTP Input nodes within one or more message flows (which can be assigned their own separate pool of additional instances). The wording of this request suggests that within the subflow, there is a desire to use asynchronous nodes to then invoke other endpoints (from within the exposed REST API). The input portion of such an asynchronous call (eg the MQInput node after the MQOutput node) can have its own thread pool of additional instances applied, so on the face of it this use case is already achievable.