Spark-rest Component

Table of Contents

URI format
URI Options
Path using Spark syntax
Mapping to Camel Message
Rest DSL
More examples
See Also

Available as of Camel 2.14

The Spark-rest component allows to define REST endpoints using the Spark REST Java library using the Rest DSL.

INFO: Spark Java requires Java 8 runtime.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

 <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
        <artifactId>camel-spark-rest</artifactId>
        <version>${camel-version}</version>
    </dependency>

URI format

  spark-rest://verb:path?[options]

URI Options

The Spark Rest component supports 11 options which are listed below.

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Name	Java Type	Description
port	`int`	Port number. Will by default use 4567
ipAddress	`String`	Set the IP address that Spark should listen on. If not called the default address is '0.0.0.0'.
minThreads	`int`	Minimum number of threads in Spark thread-pool (shared globally)
maxThreads	`int`	Maximum number of threads in Spark thread-pool (shared globally)
timeOutMillis	`int`	Thread idle timeout in millis where threads that has been idle for a longer period will be terminated from the thread pool
keystoreFile	`String`	Configures connection to be secure to use the keystore file
keystorePassword	`String`	Configures connection to be secure to use the keystore password
truststoreFile	`String`	Configures connection to be secure to use the truststore file
truststorePassword	`String`	Configures connection to be secure to use the truststore password
sparkConfiguration	`SparkConfiguration`	To use the shared SparkConfiguration
sparkBinding	`SparkBinding`	To use a custom SparkBinding to map to/from Camel message.

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The Spark Rest component supports 13 endpoint options which are listed below:

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Name	Group	Default	Java Type	Description
verb	consumer		`String`	Required get post put patch delete head trace connect or options.
path	consumer		`String`	Required The content path which support Spark syntax.
accept	consumer		`String`	Accept type such as: 'text/xml' or 'application/json'. By default we accept all kinds of types.
bridgeErrorHandler	consumer	`false`	`boolean`	Allows for bridging the consumer to the Camel routing Error Handler which mean any exceptions occurred while the consumer is trying to pickup incoming messages or the likes will now be processed as a message and handled by the routing Error Handler. By default the consumer will use the org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler to deal with exceptions that will be logged at WARN/ERROR level and ignored.
disableStreamCache	consumer	`false`	`boolean`	Determines whether or not the raw input stream from Spark HttpRequestgetContent() is cached or not (Camel will read the stream into a in light-weight memory based Stream caching) cache. By default Camel will cache the Netty input stream to support reading it multiple times to ensure Camel can retrieve all data from the stream. However you can set this option to true when you for example need to access the raw stream such as streaming it directly to a file or other persistent store. Mind that if you enable this option then you cannot read the Netty stream multiple times out of the box and you would need manually to reset the reader index on the Spark raw stream.
mapHeaders	consumer	`true`	`boolean`	If this option is enabled then during binding from Spark 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.sparkrest.SparkMessage message with the method getRequest() that returns the Spark HTTP request instance.
transferException	consumer	`false`	`boolean`	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. This is by default turned off. If you enable this then be aware that Java will deserialize the incoming data from the request to Java and that can be a potential security risk.
urlDecodeHeaders	consumer	`false`	`boolean`	If this option is enabled then during binding from Spark to Camel Message then the header values will be URL decoded (eg 20 will be a space character.)
exceptionHandler	consumer (advanced)		`ExceptionHandler`	To let the consumer use a custom ExceptionHandler. Notice if the option bridgeErrorHandler is enabled then this options is not in use. By default the consumer will deal with exceptions that will be logged at WARN/ERROR level and ignored.
exchangePattern	consumer (advanced)		`ExchangePattern`	Sets the exchange pattern when the consumer creates an exchange.
matchOnUriPrefix	advanced	`false`	`boolean`	Whether or not the consumer should try to find a target consumer by matching the URI prefix if no exact match is found.
sparkBinding	advanced		`SparkBinding`	To use a custom SparkBinding to map to/from Camel message.
synchronous	advanced	`false`	`boolean`	Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).

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Path using Spark syntax

The path option is defined using a Spark REST syntax where you define the REST context path using support for parameters and splat. See more details at the Spark Java Route documentation.

The following is a Camel route using a fixed path

  from("spark-rest:get:hello")
    .transform().constant("Bye World");

And the following route uses a parameter which is mapped to a Camel header with the key "me".

  from("spark-rest:get:hello/:me")
    .transform().simple("Bye ${header.me}");

Mapping to Camel Message

The Spark Request object is mapped to a Camel Message as a org.apache.camel.component.sparkrest.SparkMessage which has access to the raw Spark request using the getRequest method. By default the Spark body is mapped to Camel message body, and any HTTP headers / Spark parameters is mapped to Camel Message headers. There is special support for the Spark splat syntax, which is mapped to the Camel message header with key splat.

For example the given route below uses Spark splat (the asterisk sign) in the context path which we can access as a header form the Simple language to construct a response message.

  from("spark-rest:get:/hello/*/to/*")
    .transform().simple("Bye big ${header.splat[1]} from ${header.splat[0]}");

Rest DSL

Apache Camel provides a new Rest DSL that allow to define the REST services in a nice REST style. For example we can define a REST hello service as shown below:

  return new RouteBuilder() {
      @Override
      public void configure() throws Exception {
            rest("/hello/{me}").get()
                .route().transform().simple("Bye ${header.me}");
        }
    };

  <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
    <rest uri="/hello/{me}">
      <get>
        <route>
          <transform>
            <simple>Bye ${header.me}</simple>
          </transform>
        </route>
      </get>
    </rest>
  </camelContext>

See more details at the Rest DSL.

More examples

There is a camel-example-spark-rest-tomcat example in the Apache Camel distribution, that demonstrates how to use camel-spark-rest in a web application that can be deployed on Apache Tomcat, or similar web containers.