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Chapter 41. Embedded Containers

41.1. Undertow
41.2. Sun JDK HTTP Server
41.3. Netty
41.4. Vert.x
41.5. EmbeddedJaxrsServer

RESTEasy has a few different plugins for different embedabble HTTP and/or Servlet containers if use RESTEasy in a test environment, or within an environment where you do not want a Servlet engine dependency.

Undertow is a new Servlet Container that is used by WildFly (JBoss Community Server). You can embed Undertow as you wish. Here's a a test that shows it in action.

import io.undertow.servlet.api.DeploymentInfo;
import org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.undertow.UndertowJaxrsServer;
import org.jboss.resteasy.test.TestPortProvider;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;

import javax.ws.rs.ApplicationPath;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.client.Client;
import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientBuilder;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * @author <a href="mailto:bill@burkecentral.com">Bill Burke</a>
 * @version $Revision: 1 $
 */
public class UndertowTest
{
   private static UndertowJaxrsServer server;

   @Path("/test")
   public static class Resource
   {
      @GET
      @Produces("text/plain")
      public String get()
      {
         return "hello world";
      }
   }

   @ApplicationPath("/base")
   public static class MyApp extends Application
   {
      @Override
      public Set<Class<?>> getClasses()
      {
         HashSet<Class<?>> classes = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
         classes.add(Resource.class);
         return classes;
      }
   }

   @BeforeClass
   public static void init() throws Exception
   {
      server = new UndertowJaxrsServer().start();
   }

   @AfterClass
   public static void stop() throws Exception
   {
      server.stop();
   }

   @Test
   public void testApplicationPath() throws Exception
   {
      server.deployOldStyle(MyApp.class);
      Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
      String val = client.target(TestPortProvider.generateURL("/base/test"))
                         .request().get(String.class);
      Assert.assertEquals("hello world", val);
      client.close();
   }

   @Test
   public void testApplicationContext() throws Exception
   {
      server.deployOldStyle(MyApp.class, "/root");
      Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
      String val = client.target(TestPortProvider.generateURL("/root/test"))
                         .request().get(String.class);
      Assert.assertEquals("hello world", val);
      client.close();
   }

   @Test
   public void testDeploymentInfo() throws Exception
   {
      DeploymentInfo di = server.undertowDeployment(MyApp.class);
      di.setContextPath("/di");
      di.setDeploymentName("DI");
      server.deploy(di);
      Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
      String val = client.target(TestPortProvider.generateURL("/di/base/test"))
                         .request().get(String.class);
      Assert.assertEquals("hello world", val);
      client.close();
   }
}

The Sun JDK comes with a simple HTTP server implementation (com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer) which you can run RESTEasy on top of.

 
      HttpServer httpServer = HttpServer.create(new InetSocketAddress(port), 10);
      contextBuilder = new HttpContextBuilder();
      contextBuilder.getDeployment().getActualResourceClasses().add(SimpleResource.class);
      HttpContext context = contextBuilder.bind(httpServer);
      context.getAttributes().put("some.config.info", "42");
      httpServer.start();

      contextBuilder.cleanup();
      httpServer.stop(0);
    

Create your HttpServer the way you want then use the org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.sun.http.HttpContextBuilder to initialize Resteasy and bind it to an HttpContext. The HttpContext attributes are available by injecting in a org.jboss.resteasy.spi.ResteasyConfiguration interface using @Context within your provider and resource classes.

Maven project you must include is:

 
  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
      <artifactId>resteasy-jdk-http</artifactId>
      <version>4.4.3.Final</version>
  </dependency>

RESTEasy has integration with the popular Netty project as well..

 
   public static void start(ResteasyDeployment deployment) throws Exception
   {
      netty = new NettyJaxrsServer();
      netty.setDeployment(deployment);
      netty.setPort(TestPortProvider.getPort());
      netty.setRootResourcePath("");
      netty.setSecurityDomain(null);
      netty.start();
   }
    

Maven project you must include is:

 
  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
      <artifactId>resteasy-netty4</artifactId>
      <version>4.4.3.Final</version>
  </dependency>

RESTEasy has integration with the popular Vert.x project as well..

 
   public static void start(VertxResteasyDeployment deployment) throws Exception
   {
      VertxJaxrsServer server = new VertxJaxrsServer();
      server.setDeployment(deployment);
      server.setPort(TestPortProvider.getPort());
      server.setRootResourcePath("");
      server.setSecurityDomain(null);
      server.start();
   }
    

Maven project you must include is:

 
  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
      <artifactId>resteasy-vertx</artifactId>
      <version>4.4.3.Final</version>
  </dependency>
    

The server will bootstrap its own Vert.x instance and Http server.

When a resource is called, it is done with the Vert.x Event Loop thread, keep in mind to not block this thread and respect the Vert.x programming model, see the related Vert.x manual page.

Vert.x extends the RESTEasy registry to provide a new binding scope that creates resources per Event Loop:

 
  VertxResteasyDeployment deployment = new VertxResteasyDeployment();
  // Create an instance of resource per Event Loop
  deployment.getRegistry().addPerInstanceResource(Resource.class);
    

The per instance binding scope caches the same resource instance for each event loop providing the same concurrency model than a verticle deployed multiple times.

Vert.x can also embed a RESTEasy deployment, making easy to use Jax-RS annotated controller in Vert.x applications:

 
  Vertx vertx = Vertx.vertx();
  HttpServer server = vertx.createHttpServer();

  // Set an handler calling Resteasy
  server.requestHandler(new VertxRequestHandler(vertx, deployment));

  // Start the server
  server.listen(8080, "localhost");
    

Vert.x objects can be injected in annotated resources:

 
  @GET
  @Path("/somepath")
  @Produces("text/plain")
  public String context(
      @Context io.vertx.core.Context context,
      @Context io.vertx.core.Vertx vertx,
      @Context io.vertx.core.http.HttpServerRequest req,
      @Context io.vertx.core.http.HttpServerResponse resp) {
    return "the-response";
  }
    

EmbeddedJaxrsServer is an interface provided to enable each embedded container wrapper class to configurate, start and stop its container in a standard fashion. Each of UndertowJaxrsServer, SunHttpJaxrsServer, NettyJaxrsServer, and VertxJaxrsServer implements EmbeddedJaxrsServer.

 
      public interface EmbeddedJaxrsServer<T> {
         T deploy();
         T start();
         void stop();
         ResteasyDeployment getDeployment();
         T setDeployment(ResteasyDeployment deployment);
         T setPort(int port);
         T setHostname(String hostname);
         T setRootResourcePath(String rootResourcePath);
         T setSecurityDomain(SecurityDomain sc);
      }