Application Integration release notes

You can now build and publish custom connectors for Google Cloud Marketplace. This feature is in preview.

The following connectors built by partners are available in the Google Cloud Marketplace. You can use these connectors to create connections and use them in Application Integration.

• Exact HR
• Openlegacy IBMi/AS/400 API
• Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2B

Integration templates (Preview)

Save time and effort building integrations with integration templates. These pre-defined blueprints provide a starting point for common integration flows, allowing you to quickly create and customize integrations without starting from scratch.

For more information, see Templates.

Generate and view OpenAPI Specification (Preview)

You can now generate and view the OpenAPI Specification for any published integration that uses API triggers. This allows for greater understanding and analysis of your integration's API interactions.

For more information, see View OpenAPI Specification for your integration.

JavaScript task using Gemini

If your integration flow requires any complex data mapping logic, Gemini can now recommend a JavaScript task. For more information, see Create an integration using Gemini.

You can add a JavaScript task, edit an existing task, or use Gemini to help understand the JavaScript code. For more information, see Configure JavaScript tasks.

Add failure policy (Generally available (GA))

You can now configure more complicated retry strategies for tasks, such as retries based on the error codes or the variable values during the execution:

• Configure multiple ordered conditional failure policies for each task.
• Configure a default failure policy that will be applied if no conditional failure policies matches.
• Use system auto-generated variables in the failure policies. For example, ExecutionMode and ErrorInfo.

For more information, see Example for error handling.

Build integrations with Gemini Code Assist (GA)

Building integrations with Gemini Code Assist is now generally available (GA).

Additionally, if you have API Hub enabled in your project, then Gemini can assist you to provide contextually appropriate Call REST Endpoint tasks and task configuration recommendations based on the logical flow of your existing integration. For more information see, Configure Call REST API tasks.

Local logging in async mode (Generally available (GA))

By default, local logging for new integrations is now enabled in async mode. With this change, the log data is persisted (written) at fixed intervals or after the completion of the integration's execution, whichever is earlier. You can change the default settings by editing the integration details.

For more information, see Local logging.

Test cases (Preview)

You can now test if your integration is working as intended by creating and running test cases on your complex integrations.

For information about test case, see Introduction to test cases. Learn how to do the following:

• Create test cases
• Configure test cases
• Manage test cases
• Run test cases
• Upload and download test cases

Diagram mode in the Data Transformer Task (Preview)

The Diagram mode provides a console-based experience to select the input and output variables and perform transformations in the data transformation editor. For more information, see the Data Transformer task.

Replay execution (Preview)

You can now rerun a failed integration with the same parameters as the previous execution. For more information, see Replay executions.

Cancel execution (Preview)

If you have executions that are suspended due to an approval task or a technical issue, you can now choose to cancel those executions. For more information, see Cancel executions.

View logs in Cloud Logging

Viewing integration execution logs in Cloud Logging is now generally available (GA). For more information, see View logs in Cloud Logging

The Resolve JSON Path data transformer function is now available. This function resolves a JSON path on a given JSON object by using the JSONPath reference.

The XSLT Transform data transformer function is now available. This function transforms the specified XML string using the specified XSL string.

New canvas view

In the integration editor layout, you can try the new canvas view to create integration flows. This feature is in preview. The canvas view offers the following benefits:

• Improved responsiveness of the canvas interaction
• Clearer view of your integration
• Minimap view
• Easier to build integrations

In the Application Integration editor, you can now search, browse, and select tasks and connectors in the Tasks list. For more information, see Add a Connectors task.

The Solace trigger is now available in preview.

You can now share custom connectors between different Google Cloud projects by exporting and importing the connector specification. This feature is in preview.

The following Connector Event triggers are generally available:

• SAP ERP trigger
• SAP Gateway trigger

The TIBCO EMS trigger is now available in preview.

Terraform support

You can now use Terraform to provision new regions and create authentication profiles. For a detailed reference document about terraform resources, see google_integrations_client and google_integrations_auth_config.

With Gemini, you can now build integrations in Application Integration:

• Create and build integrations
• Configure connector tasks in an integration
• Add edge conditions and append additional tasks to an integration
• Generate integration description

This feature is in preview.

While configuring a Cloud Pub/Sub trigger, you can now add a config variable for your service account. Config variables let you externalize configuration for integrations.

Apache Kafka trigger is now in preview.

Application Integration now supports config variables. Config variables let you to build CICD for your integration. This feature is in preview.

Application Integration now supports private triggers that enable you to break large flows into various subflows. This feature is in preview.

Data masking in logs

You can now prevent sensitive data from appearing the integration execution logs. For more information, see Mask sensitive data in logs.

You can now also view the integration execution logs in Cloud Logging. For more information, see View logs in Cloud Logging.

Custom connectors [Preview]

Application Integration now supports custom connectors. The custom connectors feature (based on the Open API specification) lets you create your own connectors that aren't a part of the standard connectors provided by Integration Connectors. You can use these connectors in your integrations. For more information, see Custom connectors.

The following new data transformer functions are available:

• getIntegrationVersionId (): Get the integration version ID of the current integration.

• getIntegrationVersionNumber(): Get the version number of the current integration.

Webhook triggers are now supported in preview. With webhook triggers, you can build integrations for your data sources that don't have specific triggers but support webhook for event listening.

Cloud Pub/Sub trigger supports cross-project topics

You can now configure your Cloud Pub/Sub trigger for a Pub/Sub topic that isn't in the same Google Cloud project as your integration. The Pub/Sub topic can be in any Google Cloud project.

Starting with this release, you must specify a service account when configuring the Cloud Pub/Sub trigger. Your existing Cloud Pub/Sub triggers, that don't have any service account associated with them, will continue to work as before. However, if you want to modify the Pub/Sub topic in any of the existing Cloud Pub/Sub triggers, you must also configure a service account for those triggers to continue using them.

HubSpot trigger is now available in preview.

The following Connector Event triggers are available in preview:

• IBM MQ trigger
• Rabbit MQ trigger

The following new data transformer functions are available:

• Manifest XML - Converts the specified input JSON object into an XML string.

• Parse XML - Parses the specified input XML string into a JSON object.

IAM Conditions for fine-grained access

IAM Conditions lets you define and enforce conditional, attribute-based access control for Google Cloud resources, including Application Integration resources. For more information, see Add IAM conditions.

You can now view the detailed summary of an integration from the Integration designer. For more information, see View integration details.

Vertex AI - Predict task

Starting with this release, Application Integration provides the Vertex AI - Predict task that lets you perform online predictions on your ML models.

Application Integration Quick setup (GA)

Application Integration Quick setup is now generally available in all the supported Google Cloud locations.

Quick setup is a single-click operation that automatically provisions Application Integration with the default configurations needed to get you started with the product.

For more information, see Set up Application Integration.

Connector Event triggers (Preview)

Application Integration introduces Connector Event triggers; specialized triggers that let you invoke an integration based on the event subscriptions created in various business applications using Integration Connectors.

The following Connector Event triggers are available in preview:

• Jira Cloud trigger
• ServiceNow trigger
• Zendesk trigger

For more information, see Connector Event triggers.

Data Transformer Script task (Preview)

The Data Transformer Script task is a template engine based data mapping feature available in Application Integration. With the Data Transformer Script task and the supported Data Transformer functions, you can create and evaluate custom Jsonnet templates in order to perform data mapping in your integration.

For more information, see Data Transformer Script task.

The following new features are added in this GA release:

Cloud Monitoring

Application Integration is integrated with Cloud Monitoring to provide visibility into the usage, performance, alerts, and the overall health of your integration resources.

For more information, see Monitor Application Integration resources.

Inline connection creation

You can now use the Connectors task in Application Integration to directly create a new connection in the Integration Connectors platform.

For more information, see Connectors task.

New tasks for Google Cloud services

The following new integration tasks are available in preview:

• AI Platform - Prediction
• Cloud KMS - encrypt
• Cloud KMS - decrypt
• Dataflow - Create Job
• Drive - List
• Doc AI - Batch Process
• Doc AI - Process
• Doc AI - Operation
• Firestore - Batch Get
• Firestore - Batch Write
• Firestore - Document Get
• Language - Annotate Text
• Language - Classify Text
• Sheets - Append
• Sheets - Batch Get
• Sheets - Get
• Translate - Document
• Translate - Text
• Workflows - Execute

Support for Google-managed encryption keys

Application Integration now uses Google-managed encryption keys as the default method of data encryption for your provisioned regions. You can optionally modify your encryption method with customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK).

For more information, see Encryption methods.

Error catcher trigger

The Error Catcher trigger lets you invoke an error catcher that is defined or customized to handle the failure of an identified trigger, task, or edge condition in your integration.

For more information, see Error catcher trigger.

Return task

The Return task lets you customize the error messages corresponding to the HTTP response codes that are returned during an integration execution failure.

For more information, see Return task.

Cloud logs support for Connectors tasks

You can now view the execution logs of a failed Connectors task in Application Integration.

For more information, see Execution Logs.

Application Integration is now available in the following locations:

• Melbourne (australia-southeast2)
• Finland (europe-north1)
• Paris (europe-west9)
• Madrid (europe-southwest1)
• Doha (me-central1)
• Tel Aviv (me-west1)

For more information about the supported locations, see Application Integration locations.

Secret Manager - Access task

The Secret Manager - Access task lets you access secret versions that are stored in Cloud Secret Manager from your integration.

For more information, see Secret Manager - Access task.

JavaScript task

The JavaScript task lets you write custom JavaScript code snippets for your integration.

Using the JavaScript Editor, you can code complex data mapping logic for your integration, perform variable assignments, and add or modify integration variables.

For more information, see JavaScript task.

Delete integration

You can now delete an entire integration without the need to individually delete all the respective integration versions.

When you delete an integration, you permanently delete all the versions of that integration, including all the integration variables, configured triggers, tasks, and data mappings.

For more information, see Delete integrations.

Cloud Scheduler trigger

The Cloud Scheduler trigger lets you schedule your integration executions for defined time periods or regular intervals across multiple regions. Cloud Scheduler triggers leverage the Cloud Scheduler services to provide a fully managed enterprise-grade cron job scheduler within Application Integration.

For more information, see Cloud Scheduler trigger.

Test without publishing an integration

You can now test your integration without the need to publish or create a new integration version. Testing an integration lets you experiment with the integration input variable values, and helps in identifying any faults in the integration connection flow before you finalize and publish the integration.

For more information, see Test and publish integrations.