Netty HTTP Component
Available as of Camel 2.12
The netty-http component is an extension to Netty component to facilitiate HTTP transport with Netty.
This camel component supports both producer and consumer endpoints.
![]() | Stream Netty is stream based, which means the input it receives is submitted to Camel as a stream. That means you will only be able to read the content of the stream once.
If you find a situation where the message body appears to be empty or you need to access the data multiple times (eg: doing multicasting, or redelivery error handling)
you should use Stream caching or convert the message body to a String which is safe to be re-read multiple times. |
Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-netty-http</artifactId>
<version>x.x.x</version>
</dependency>
URI format
The URI scheme for a netty component is as follows
You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?option=value&option=value&...
HTTP Options
![]() | A lot more options Important: This component inherits all the options from Netty. So make sure to look at the Netty documentation as well.
Notice that some options from Netty is not applicable when using this Netty HTTP component, such as options related to UDP transport. |
Name |
Default Value |
Description |
chunked |
true |
Allow using chunked transfer if the client supports it from the HTTP headers. |
compression |
false |
Allow using gzip/deflate for compression if the client supports it from the HTTP headers. |
headerFilterStrategy |
|
To use a custom org.apache.camel.spi.HeaderFilterStrategy to filter headers. |
httpMethodRestrict |
|
To disable HTTP methods on the Netty HTTP consumer. You can specify multiple separated by comma. |
mapHeaders |
true |
If this option is enabled, then during binding from Netty to Camel Message then the headers will be mapped as well (eg added as header to the Camel Message as well). You can turn off this option to disable this. The headers can still be accessed from the org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.NettyHttpMessage message with the method getHttpRequest() that returns the Netty HTTP request org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequest instance. |
nettyHttpBinding |
|
To use a custom org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.NettyHttpBinding for binding to/from Netty and Camel Message API. |
throwExceptionOnFailure |
true |
Option to disable throwing the HttpOperationFailedException in case of failed responses from the remote server. This allows you to get all responses regardles of the HTTP status code. |
traceEnabled |
false |
Specifies whether to enable HTTP TRACE for this Netty HTTP consumer. By default TRACE is turned off. |
transferException |
false |
If enabled and an Exchange failed processing on the consumer side, and if the caused Exception was send back serialized in the response as a application/x-java-serialized-object content type. On the producer side the exception will be deserialized and thrown as is, instead of the HttpOperationFailedException. The caused exception is required to be serialized. |
urlDecodeHeaders |
true |
If this option is enabled, then during binding from Netty to Camel Message then the header values will be URL decoded (eg %20 will be a space character. Notice this option is used by the default org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.NettyHttpBinding and therefore if you implement a custom org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.NettyHttpBinding then you would need to decode the headers accordingly to this option. |
Message Headers
The following headers can be used on the producer to control the HTTP request.
Name |
Type |
Description |
CamelHttpMethod |
String |
Allow to control what HTTP method to use such as GET, POST, TRACE etc. The type can also be a org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod instance. |
CamelHttpQuery |
String |
Allows to provide URI query parameters as a String value that overrides the endpoint configuration. Separate multiple parameters using the & sign. For example: foo=bar&beer=yes. |
Content-Type |
String |
To set the content-type of the HTTP body. For example: text/plain; charset="UTF-8". |
The following headers is provided as meta-data when a route starts from an Netty HTTP endpoint:
The description in the table takes offset in a route having: from("netty-http:http:0.0.0.0:8080/myapp")...
Name |
Type |
Description |
CamelHttpMethod |
String |
The HTTP method used, such as GET, POST, TRACE etc. |
CamelHttpUrl |
String |
The URL including protocol, host and port, etc:
|
CamelHttpUri |
String |
The URI without protocol, host and port, etc:
|
CamelHttpQuery |
String |
Any query parameters, such as foo=bar&beer=yes |
CamelHttpPath |
String |
Additional context-path. This value is empty if the client called the context-path /myapp. If the client calls /myapp/mystuff, then this header value is /mystuff. In other words its the value after the context-path configured on the route endpoint. |
Content-Type |
String |
The content type if provided. For example: text/plain; charset="UTF-8". |
Access to Netty types
This component uses the org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.NettyHttpMessage as the message implementation on the Exchange. This allows end users to get access to the original Netty request/response instances if needed, as shown below:
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequest request = exchange.getIn(NettyHttpMessage.class).getHttpRequest();
Examples
In the route below we use Netty HTTP as a HTTP server, which returns back a hardcoded "Bye World" message.
from("netty-http:http:)
.transform().constant("Bye World");
And we can call this HTTP server using Camel also, with the ProducerTemplate as shown below:
String out = template.requestBody("netty-http:http:, "Hello World", String.class);
System.out.println(out);
And we get back "Bye World" as the output.
See Also