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Reputation: 39

Vert.x - Get parameters from POST request

Im trying to create a Vert.x Rest service that responds to POST requests on some URL\analysis.

Using the following command

curl -D- http://localhost:8080\analyze -d '{"text":"bla"}'

I want to extract "bla" from the command and perform simple text analysis on it.:

Here is the draft of my code:

    @Override
public void start(Future<Void> fut) throws Exception {

    router = Router.router(vertx);
    router.post("/analyze").handler(this::analyze);

    // Create Http server and pass the 'accept' method to the request handler
    vertx.createHttpServer().requestHandler(router::accept).
            listen(config().getInteger("http.port", 9000),
                    result -> {
                        if (result.succeeded()) {
                            System.out.println("Http server completed..");
                            fut.complete();
                        } else {
                            fut.fail(result.cause());
                            System.out.println("Http server failed..");
                        }
                    }
            );
}


private void analyze(RoutingContext context) {
    HttpServerResponse response = context.response();
    String bodyAsString = context.getBodyAsString();
    JsonObject body = context.getBodyAsJson();

    if (body == null){
        response.end("The Json body is null. Please recheck.." + System.lineSeparator());
    }
    else
    {
        String postedText = body.getString("text");
        response.setStatusCode(200);
        response.putHeader("content-type", "text/html");
        response.end("you posted json which contains the following " + postedText);
    }

}

}

Do you know how can I get the "bla" from POST?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5656

Answers (1)

glytching
glytching

Reputation: 47895

Try the following router and handler:

Router router = Router.router(vertx);
// add a handler which sets the request body on the RoutingContext.
router.route().handler(BodyHandler.create());
// expose a POST method endpoint on the URI: /analyze
router.post("/analyze").handler(this::analyze);

// handle anything POSTed to /analyze
public void analyze(RoutingContext context) {
    // the POSTed content is available in context.getBodyAsJson()
    JsonObject body = context.getBodyAsJson();

    // a JsonObject wraps a map and it exposes type-aware getters
    String postedText = body.getString("text");

    context.response().end("You POSTed JSON which contains a text attribute with the value: " + postedText);
}

With the above code in place this CURL command ...

curl -D- http://localhost:9000/analyze -d '{"text":"bla"}'

... will return:

$ curl -D- http://localhost:9000/analyze -d '{"text":"bla"}'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 67
Set-Cookie: vertx-web.session=21ff020c9afa5ec9fd5948acf64c5a85; Path=/

You POSTed JSON which contains a text attribute with the value: bla

Looking at your question you have defined an endpoint named /analyze but then you suggested this CURL command: curl -D- http://localhost:8080 -d '{"text":"bla"}' which doesn't talk to the /analyze endpoint. Perhaps that's part of the issue or maybe that's just a typo when preparing the question. Regardless, the code I have supplied above will:

  • Define an endpoint at http://localhost:9000/analyze
  • Handle content POSTed to that endpoint

Upvotes: 4

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