[WSO2 App Manager]Registry Extension (RXT) Files

All data related to any application you create in WSO2 App Manager is stored in the registry which is embedded to the server. Those data is stored in a format which is defined in a special set of files called “Registry Extensions (RXTs)”[1] . When you save a web application, the format it is saved in the registry is given in “webapp.rxt”, and that of mobile applications is given in “mobileapp.rxt”. You can see these files in the file system under <APPM_HOME>/repository/resources/rxts folder. When you want to add a new field to an application you create, you need to edit these RXT files.

These RXT files can also be found in Home > Extensions > Configure > Artifact Types in App Manager management console like below.

But when you want to edit these file, it is better to edit them from the file system, because every time a new tenant is created, it picks relevant RXTs from the file system to populate the data in the registry.

App Manager reads RXT files from the file system and populates them in the management console only if they are not already populated. So, whenever you edit RXTs from the file system, you have to delete the rxt files from the management console and restart the server to populate updated RXT files in the management console. If you have multiple tenants, you need to delete RXT files of each tenant from the management console.

There are “field” tags in every RXT file. In each field tag, it contains field type and if it is a required field or not. See below two examples.

eg :

<field type = "text" required = "true">

 <name>AppId</name>

</field>

<field type = "text-area">

 <name>Terms and Conditions</name>

</field>

In rxt files, there are two types of fields. They are, “text” and “text-area”. “text” is used for text fields, and “text-area” is used for large text contents.  If you want to set the type of a field as double, Integer etc., you have to use a “text” field and have a type validation in application code.