gateleen-hook

This feature allows you to set either dynamical generated routes or listeners called hooks to a specific resource or a collection.

Two types of this hooks exists:

routes
listeners

General configuration

During the instantiation of the HookHandler you have the possibility to specify the collection where your hooks will be saved in the storage. To do so, you have to set the parameter hookRootUri in the constructor.

Route - Hooks

Attention: A route directs all communication from a specific resource to another destination. Per resource may only exist one route a time.

Usage

Information: The suffix /_hooks/route always indicates a route registration. The HookHandler will use this suffix to identify either a registration or an unregistration of a route hook.

Payload

Property	Required	Description
destination	yes	A valid URL (absolute) where the requests should be redirected to.
methods	no	An array of valid HTTP methods (PUT, GET, DELETE, ...) to define for which requests the redirection should be performed. As a default all requests will be redirected.
expireAfter	no	This property indicates how long a resource should live. After the given time, the resource will be removed from the storage. This property will only be used, if the incoming request does not have a 'X-Expire-After' header. If the given header exists, this property will be ignored for the given request!
staticHeaders	no	This property allows you to set static headers passed down to every request. The defined static headers will overwrite given ones!
collection	no	This property specifies if the given URL is a resource or a collection. If this property is not set, the default is true (collection).
listable	no	This property specifies if a route is listed if a GET is performed on its parent or not. The default is false or set by the value passed during the initialization.

Attention: A route has a default expiration time of 1 hour. After this time the route will expire and be removed from the storage, as well as the HookHandler.
To update / refresh a route, simply perform another registration.
To change the expiration time of a route, just pass a X-Expire-After header with the registration PUT request.

Add a route

PUT /<url>/<resource>/_hooks/route
{
    "destination": "http://<url>/<target>",
    "methods": []
}

Remove a route

DELETE /<url>/<resource>/_hooks/route

Example:

The following example will show you, how to set a route for a specific resource / collection.

Assumption: We’d like to set a dynamic route for the resource /gateleen/example/resource. The target destination should be /gateleen/example/othertarget.

To do so, we have to perform the following steps:

Register the route hook.

PUT http://myserver:7012/gateleen/example/resource/_hooks/route
{
    "destination": "http://myserver:7012/gateleen/example/othertarget",
    "methods": []
}

Use the hook

DELETE http://myserver:7012/gateleen/example/resource/anExample

This request will be rerouted to:

DELETE http://myserver:7012/gateleen/example/othertarget/anExample

Deleting the hook

 DELETE http://myserver:7012/gateleen/example/resource/_hooks/route

Create a listable route

Normally a created rout will not be listed, if their parent collection is requested.

 PUT http://myserver:7012/gateleen/example/resource/_hooks/route
 {
     "destination": "http://myserver:7012/gateleen/example/othertarget"
}

The request will lead to a 404.

GET http://myserver:7012/gateleen/example/

In order to be able to list one or more routes, we have to tell the HookHandler, that we wish the rout to be listable.

 PUT http://myserver:7012/gateleen/example/resource/_hooks/route
 {
     "destination": "http://myserver:7012/gateleen/example/othertarget",
     "methods": [],
     "listable" : true,
     "collection" : true
 }

Now the request will lead to:

GET http://myserver:7012/gateleen/example/
{
    "example" : [
	    "resource"
    ]
}

Listener - Hooks

Attention: A listener registers an additional destination for a resource, which also will get a copy of the original request. You may registers as many listeners per resource as you wish. Requests forwarded to a listener are always enqueued and delivered as soon as the target destination is available.

Usage

Information: The suffix /_hooks/listeners/http/<id> always indicates a route registration. The HookHandler will use this suffix to identify either a registration or an unregistration of a listener hook.

Payload

Property	Required	Description
destination	yes	A valid URL (relative) where the requests should be redirected to.
methods	no	An array of valid HTTP methods (PUT, GET, DELETE, ...) to define for which requests the redirection should be performed. As a default all requests will be redirected.
expireAfter	no	This property indicates how long a resource should live. After the given time, the resource will be removed from the storage. This property will only be used, if the incoming request does not have a 'X-Expire-After' header. If the given header exists, this property will be ignored for the given request!
queueExpireAfter	no	A copied and forwarded request to a listener is always putted into a queue. To ensure to have an expiration time for each request within the given listener queue, you can set a default value (in seconds) with this property. This way you can prevent a queue overflow. The property will only be used for requests, which doesn’t have a x-queue-expire-after header.
staticHeaders	no	This property allows you to set static headers passed down to every request. The defined static headers will overwrite given ones!
filter	no	This property allows you to refine the requests with a regular expression, which you want to receive for the given destination.
type	no	Default: before This property allows you to set, if the request to a listener will be sent before or after the original request was performed. The valid settings are: after => request will be forwarded to listener after the original request was performed before => (default) request will be forwarded to a listener before the original request was performed This can be useful if you want to use your listeners with the delegate feature and expect a request to be already executed as soon as you execute a delegate.
fullUrl	no	Default: false Defines whether the hook forwards using the full initial url or only the appendix Example: hooked url = http://a/b/c request.uri() = http://a/b/c/d/e.x url appendix = /d/e.x
queueingStrategy	no	Default: DefaultQueueingStrategy Configures the 'queueing' behaviour of the HookHandler. See chapter QueueingStrategy for detailed information.

Attention: A listener has a default expiration time of 30 seconds. After this time the listener will expire and be removed from the storage, as well as the HookHandler.
To update / refresh a listener, simply perform another registration.
To change the expiration time of a listener, just pass a X-Expire-After header with the registration PUT request.

Add a listener

PUT http://myserver7012/gateleen/everything/_hooks/listeners/http/myexample
{
    "methods": [
        "PUT"
    ],
    "destination": "/gateleen/example/thePosition",
    "filter": "/gateleen/everything/.*/position.*",
    "staticHeaders": {
        "X-Expire-After": "3600"
    }    
}

Remove a listener

DELETE http://myserver7012/gateleen/everything/_hooks/listeners/http/myexample

QueueingStrategy

The QueueingStrategy can be configured for listeners only and defines the 'queueing' behaviour. The following strategies are available.

DefaultQueueingStrategy

The DefaultQueueingStrategy does not change anything in the 'queueing' behaviour. Requests are enqueued without any modification. This strategy is used when no (or no valid) QueueingStrategy is configured.

DiscardPayloadQueueingStrategy

The DiscardPayloadQueueingStrategy removes the payload from the request before enqueueing. When a Content-Length header is provided, the value will be changed to 0.

To activate this strategy, the following configuration has to be added when adding a listener:

{
    "queueingStrategy": {
        "type": "discardPayload"
    }    
}

ReducedPropagationQueueingStrategy

The ReducedPropagationQueueingStrategy is used to reduce the amount of hooked resource changes by only propagating 1 resource change over a configurable amount of time (intervalMs). Typically this strategy is used to not overwhelm a client with thousands of hooked resource changes. As in the DiscardPayloadQueueingStrategy, the payload will be removed before enqueueing.

To activate this strategy, the following configuration has to be added when adding a listener:

{
    "queueingStrategy": {
        "type": "reducedPropagation",
        "intervalMs": 60000
    }    
}

The intervalMs defines the amount of time in milliseconds to wait before propagate a single resource change.

Log hook registration changes

To log the payload of changes to the hook registrations, the RequestLogger can be used.

Make sure to instantiate the RequestLoggingConsumer by calling

RequestLoggingConsumer requestLoggingConsumer = new RequestLoggingConsumer(vertx, loggingResourceManager);

To enable the logging of the hook registration changes, make sure the url to the hook registrations is enabled in the logging resource.

Example:

{
  "headers": [],
  "payload": {
    "filters": [
      {
        "url": "/playground/server/.*/_hooks/.*",
        "method": "PUT"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Also you have to enable the logging on the HookHandler by calling

hookHandler.enableResourceLogging(true);

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README_hook.md

README_hook.md

gateleen-hook

General configuration

Route - Hooks

Usage

Add a route

Remove a route

Example:

Register the route hook.

Use the hook

Deleting the hook

Create a listable route

Listener - Hooks

Usage

Add a listener

Remove a listener

QueueingStrategy

DefaultQueueingStrategy

DiscardPayloadQueueingStrategy

ReducedPropagationQueueingStrategy

Log hook registration changes

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gateleen-hook

General configuration

Route - Hooks

Usage

Add a route

Remove a route

Example:

Register the route hook.

Use the hook

Deleting the hook

Create a listable route

Listener - Hooks

Usage

Add a listener

Remove a listener

QueueingStrategy

DefaultQueueingStrategy

DiscardPayloadQueueingStrategy

ReducedPropagationQueueingStrategy

Log hook registration changes