Jetty

Jetty Component

Supports non blocking Request Reply producer in Camel 2.1 onwards

The jetty component provides HTTP-based endpoints for consuming HTTP requests. That is, the Jetty component behaves as a simple Web server.

In Camel 2.1 the jetty component also provides non blocking Request Reply for producing HTTP requests. That is it can also acts as HTTP client sending to a remote HTTP server and use non blocking in this process. See more at ToAsync and the HTTP Async Example.

URI format

jetty:http://hostname[:port][/resourceUri][?options]

You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?option=value&option=value&...

Options

Message Headers

Camel uses the same message headers as the HTTP component.
From Camel 2.2, it also uses (Exchange.HTTP_CHUNKED,CamelHttpChunked) header to turn on or turn off the chuched encoding on the camel-jetty consumer.

Camel also populates all request.parameter and request.headers. For example, given a client request with the URL, http://myserver/myserver?orderid=123, the exchange will contain a header named orderid with the value 123. This feature was introduced in Camel 1.5.

Usage

The Jetty component only supports consumer endpoints. Therefore a Jetty endpoint URI should be used only as the input for a Camel route (in a from() DSL call). To issue HTTP requests against other HTTP endpoints, use the HTTP Component

Sample

In this sample we define a route that exposes a HTTP service at http://localhost:8080/myapp/myservice:

Our business logic is implemented in the MyBookService class, which accesses the HTTP request contents and then returns a response.
Note: The assert call appears in this example, because the code is part of an unit test.

The following sample shows a content-based route that routes all requests containing the URI parameter, one, to the endpoint, mock:one, and all others to mock:other.

So if a client sends the HTTP request, http://serverUri?one=hello, the Jetty component will copy the HTTP request parameter, one to the exchange's in.header. We can then use the simple language to route exchanges that contain this header to a specific endpoint and all others to another. If we used a language more powerful than Simple—such as EL or OGNL—we could also test for the parameter value and do routing based on the header value as well.

Session Support

The session support option, sessionSupport, can be used to enable a HttpSession object and access the session object while processing the exchange. For example, the following route enables sessions:

   <route>
     <from uri="jetty:http://0.0.0.0/myapp/myservice/?sessionSupport=true"/>
     <processRef ref="myCode"/>
   <route>

The myCode Processor can be instantiated by a Spring bean element:

   <bean id="myCode" class="com.mycompany.MyCodeProcessor"/>

Where the processor implementation can access the HttpSession as follows:

   public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception {
     HttpSession session = ((HttpExchange)exchange).getRequest().getSession();
     ...
   }

SSL Support (HTTPS)

Jetty provides SSL support out of the box. To enable Jetty to run in SSL mode, simply format the URI with the https:// prefix—for example:

<from uri="jetty:https://0.0.0.0/myapp/myservice/"/>

Jetty also needs to know where to load your keystore from and what passwords to use in order to load the correct SSL certificate. Set the following JVM System Properties:

• jetty.ssl.keystore specifies the location of the Java keystore file, which contains the Jetty server's own X.509 certificate in a key entry. A key entry stores the X.509 certificate (effectively, the public key) and also its associated private key.
• jetty.ssl.password the store password, which is required to access the keystore file (this is the same password that is supplied to the keystore command's -storepass option).
• jetty.ssl.keypassword the key password, which is used to access the certificate's key entry in the keystore (this is the same password that is supplied to the keystore command's -keypass option).

For details of how to configure SSL on a Jetty endpoint, read the following documentation at the Jetty Site:

Some SSL properties aren't exposed directly by Camel, however Camel does expose the underlying SslSocketConnector, which will allow you to set properties like needClientAuth for mutual authentication requiring a client certificate or wantClientAuth for mutual authentication where a client doesn't need a certificate but can have one. There's a slight difference between Camel 1.6.x and 2.x:

Camel 1.x

  <bean id="jetty" class="org.apache.camel.component.jetty.JettyHttpComponent">
    <property name="sslSocketConnector">
      <bean class="org.mortbay.jetty.security.SslSocketConnector">
        <property name="password" value="..." />
        <property name="keyPassword" value="..." />
        <property name="keystore" value="..." />
        <property name="wantClientAuth" value="..." />
        <property name="truststore" value="..." />
      </bean>
    </property>
  </bean>

Camel 2.x

  <bean id="jetty" class="org.apache.camel.component.jetty.JettyHttpComponent">
     <property name="sslSocketConnectors">
        <map>
           <entry key="8043">
             <bean class="org.mortbay.jetty.security.SslSocketConnector">
               <property name="password" value="..." />
               <property name="keyPassword" value="..." />
               <property name="keystore" value="..." />
               <property name="needClientAuth" value="..." />
               <property name="truststore" value="..." />
             </bean>
          </entry>
       </map>
    </property>
  </bean>

The value you use as keys in the above map is the port you configure Jetty to listen on.

Default behavior for returning HTTP status codes

The default behavior of HTTP status codes is defined by the org.apache.camel.component.http.DefaultHttpBinding class, which handles how a response is written and also sets the HTTP status code.

If the exchange was processed successfully, the 200 HTTP status code is returned.
If the exchange failed with an exception, the 500 HTTP status code is returned, and the stacktrace is returned in the body. If you want to specify which HTTP status code to return, set the code in the HttpProducer.HTTP_RESPONSE_CODE header of the OUT message.

Customizing HttpBinding

Available as of Camel 1.5.1/2.0

By default, Camel uses the org.apache.camel.component.http.DefaultHttpBinding to handle how a response is written. If you like, you can customize this behavior either by implementing your own HttpBinding class or by extending DefaultHttpBinding and overriding the appropriate methods.

The following example shows how to customize the DefaultHttpBinding in order to change how exceptions are returned:

We can then create an instance of our binding and register it in the Spring registry as follows:

   <bean id="mybinding" class="com.mycompany.MyHttpBinding"/>

And then we can reference this binding when we define the route:

   <route>
     <from uri="jetty:http://0.0.0.0:8080/myapp/myservice?httpBindingRef=mybinding"/>
     <to uri="bean:doSomething"/>
   </route>

Jetty handlers and security configuration

Available as of Camel 1.6.1/2.0: You can configure a list of Jetty handlers on the endpoint, which can be useful for enabling advanced Jetty security features. These handlers are configured in Spring XML as follows:

        <-- Jetty Security handling -->
	<bean id="userRealm" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.jaas.JAASUserRealm">
		<property name="name" value="tracker-users" />
		<property name="loginModuleName" value="ldaploginmodule" />
	</bean>
	<bean id="constraint" class="org.mortbay.jetty.security.Constraint">
		<property name="name" value="BASIC" />
		<property name="roles" value="tracker-users" />
		<property name="authenticate" value="true" />
	</bean>
	<bean id="constraintMapping" class="org.mortbay.jetty.security.ConstraintMapping">
		<property name="constraint" ref="constraint" />
		<property name="pathSpec" value="/*" />
	</bean>
	<bean id="securityHandler" class="org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler">
		<property name="userRealm" ref="userRealm" />
		<property name="constraintMappings" ref="constraintMapping" />
	</bean>

You can then define the endpoint as:

from("jetty:http://0.0.0.0:9080/myservice?handlers=securityHandler")

If you need more handlers, set the handlers option equal to a comma-separated list of bean IDs.

See Also

• Configuring Camel
• Component
• Endpoint
• Getting Started

• HTTP