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
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Specifies whether to enable the session manager on the server side of Jetty. |
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Camel 1.5.1/2.0: Configuration of Jetty's HttpClient. For example, setting |
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Camel 1.5.1/2.0: Reference to an |
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Camel 2.0: Whether or not the |
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Camel 1.6.1/2.0: Specifies a comma-delimited set of |
Message Headers
Camel uses the same message headers as the HTTP component.
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
:
Usage of localhost
When you specify localhost
in a URL, Camel exposes the endpoint only on the local TCP/IP network interface, so it cannot be accessed from outside the machine it operates on.
If you need to expose a Jetty endpoint on a specific network interface, the numerical IP address of this interface should be used as the host. If you need to expose a Jetty endpoint on all network interfaces, the 0.0.0.0
address should be used.
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 thekeystore
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 thekeystore
command's-keypass
option).
For details of how to configure SSL on a Jetty endpoint, read the following documentation at the Jetty Site:
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.