How to add multiple http request calls in foreach | Mule 3 - mule

Question

I am using scatter-gather to call many endpoints with the same host and different paths. How can I add the HTTP request connector inside For Each scope, that can loop into the different paths and add the payload to the same file?
My code is as below, I would like to loop over the HTTP request;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mule xmlns:tracking="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/tracking" xmlns:ftp="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/ftp" xmlns:http="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http"
xmlns:file="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file" xmlns:dw="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/dw"
xmlns="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core" xmlns:doc="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/documentation"
xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http/current/mule-http.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file/current/mule-file.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/dw http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/dw/current/dw.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-current.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/current/mule.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/ftp http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/ftp/current/mule-ftp-ee.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/tracking http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/tracking/current/mule-tracking-ee.xsd">
<http:request-config name="HTTP_Request_Configuration-testt" protocol="HTTPS" host="servicenow.com" port="443" doc:name="HTTP Request Configuration"/>
<http:listener-config name="HTTP_Listener_Configuration1" host="0.0.0.0" port="8081" doc:name="HTTP Listener Configuration"/>
<flow name="servicenow-call">
<http:listener config-ref="HTTP_Listener_Configuration1" path="/test" doc:name="HTTP"/>
<scatter-gather doc:name="Scatter-Gather">
<http:request config-ref="HTTP_Request_Configuration-testt" path="/repo/cat1" method="GET" doc:name="HTTP Request 1"/>
<http:request config-ref="HTTP_Request_Configuration-testt" path="/repo/cat2" method="GET" doc:name="HTTP Request 2"/>
<http:request config-ref="HTTP_Request_Configuration-testt" path="/repo/cat3"" method="GET" doc:name="HTTP Request 4"/>
</scatter-gather>
<dw:transform-message doc:name="Set JSON">
<dw:set-payload><![CDATA[%dw 1.0
%output application/json
---
payload]]></dw:set-payload>
</dw:transform-message>
<file:outbound-endpoint path="D:\Local\NewFile.json" outputPattern="first-#[function:datestamp:ddMMyyyy-HHmmss].json" responseTimeout="10000" doc:name="Write FIle"/>
<exception-strategy ref="ImplementationChoice_Exception_Strategy" doc:name="Reference Exception Strategy"/>
</flow>
</mule>

Answer 1

Check the below sample code how we can use foreach in your scenario. THis is in Mule4. I hope you can do it in Mule3 as well.
I am not sure why you want to use foreach. I would suggest use Scatter_Gather instead of foreach. Because foreach will work sequentially and Scatter_Gather works concurrently. Performance wise concurrent process is good.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mule xmlns:ee="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/core" xmlns:http="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http"
xmlns="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core"
xmlns:doc="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/documentation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/current/mule.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http/current/mule-http.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/core/current/mule-ee.xsd">
<flow name="Testing_foreach_stackoverflowFlow" doc:id="95fe6a04-4aca-4106-a0b3-b53afb7be95a" >
<scheduler doc:name="Scheduler" doc:id="e6a81b1c-43f9-486a-a451-b31bcadbe23f" >
<scheduling-strategy >
<fixed-frequency frequency="5" timeUnit="MINUTES"/>
</scheduling-strategy>
</scheduler>
<set-variable value="#[%dw 2.0
output application/json
---
[]]" doc:name="Set Variable" doc:id="7b1bbba6-d63d-4f89-905b-8b9c7d6a7555" variableName="result"/>
<set-payload value='#[["test1","test2"]]' doc:name="Set Payload" doc:id="1b7ff757-1a42-4291-b759-50632db842d3" />
<foreach doc:name="For Each" doc:id="2010c075-b487-4977-8a34-0f58adb23a7d" >
<http:request method="GET" doc:name="Request" doc:id="a0524fe5-2344-46c2-bb03-90660fb8fc04" url='#["http://localhost:8091/" ++ payload]'/>
<ee:transform doc:name="Transform Message" doc:id="0aca9608-f7a1-4e1a-a246-11830b6f245e" >
<ee:message >
</ee:message>
<ee:variables >
<ee:set-variable variableName="result" ><![CDATA[%dw 2.0
output application/json
---
vars.result + payload
]]></ee:set-variable>
</ee:variables>
</ee:transform>
<logger level="INFO" doc:name="payload" doc:id="22bc3348-90f9-4290-bb53-ee4c19af1f18" message="#[payload]"/>
</foreach>
<logger level="INFO" doc:name="payload" doc:id="00e70062-6898-42d7-bc50-974f23a4cd93" message="#[payload]"/>
</flow>
<flow name="Testing_foreach_stackoverflowFlow1" doc:id="fc055a5c-09a0-4dce-99be-70e863ffb0ff" >
<http:listener doc:name="Listener" doc:id="298d5fff-c712-4307-895a-7d4faac42eb1" config-ref="api-httpListenerConfig" path="/test1"/>
<set-payload value='"grapes"' doc:name="Set Payload" doc:id="bfce761e-c63a-4a06-ab9b-f17360d9a7d2" />
</flow>
<flow name="Testing_foreach_stackoverflowFlow2" doc:id="12d67768-525e-46b0-91b4-ce9377b0b7d1" >
<http:listener doc:name="Listener" doc:id="24fc80d9-0f93-4217-a1a2-3802b57ce3cb" config-ref="api-httpListenerConfig" path="/test2"/>
<set-payload value='"banana"' doc:name="Set Payload" doc:id="01ad0e82-5f50-49a3-9804-10190953b1c0" />
</flow>
</mule>

Answer 2

Set a variable with an empty list before the foreach, and for each iteration concatenate the results. I guess you can set a list of the paths and use it to iterate the foreach.