README.adoc

Http Request Processor

A processor app that makes requests to an HTTP resource and emits the response body as a message payload.

Input

Headers

Any Required HTTP headers must be explicitly set via the headers or headers-expression property. See examples below. Header values may also be used to construct:

• the request body when referenced in the body-expression property.

• the HTTP method when referenced in the http-method-expression property.

• the URL when referenced in the url-expression property.

Payload

The payload is used as the request body for a POST request by default, and can be any Java type. It should be an empty String for a GET request. The payload may also be used to construct:

• the request body when referenced in the body-expression property.

• the HTTP method when referenced in the http-method-expression property.

• the URL when referenced in the url-expression property.

The underlying WebClient supports Jackson JSON serialization to support any request and response types if necessary. The expected-response-type property, String.class by default, may be set to any class in your application class path. Note that user defined payload types will require adding required dependencies to your pom file.

Output

Headers

No HTTP message headers are mapped to the outbound Message.

Payload

The raw output object is ResponseEntity<?> any of its fields (e.g., body, headers) or accessor methods (statusCode) may be referenced as part of the reply-expression. By default the outbound Message payload is the response body. Note that ResponseEntity (referenced by the expression #root) cannot be deserialized by Jackson by default, but may be rendered as a HashMap.

Options

The http-request processor has the following options:

See Spring Functions Catalog for configuration options.