Handle sequential HTTP calls with the same message - spring-integration

I would like to make two sequential calls one after the other, but using the same request message for both calls. But as shown in my sample code, the response from the first post call becomes the request of the second call by default. What is the most elegant solution for this pattern in spring integration
public IntegrationFlow test() {
return IntegrationFlows
.from("testChannel")
.handle(httpConfigurations.postCall1())
.handle(httpConfigurations.postCall2())
.get();
}

Before the first .handle add a header enricher with an expression to copy the payload to a header.
Before the second .handle use a .transform() to copy the header back to the payload.

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Picking the Right SoapAction when using MarshallingWebServiceOutboundGateway

I am trying to learn Spring Integration. As a test project to explore all the features. My project goes like this
AMQP Queue -> Header Router -> Transformer -> OutBound SOAP WS Call -> Log Results -> End
1.) Start the flow by Listening to a RabbitMq Queue. The RabbitMq Message that are sent will have a String Value (Example: 32) and a Header like {"operation" "CelsiusToFahrenheit"}.
2.) The RabbitMq message is then transformed to the corresponding Java Object based on the RabbitMQ Header Value ("operation").
3.) Then I am using a MarshallingWebServiceOutboundGateway to invoke the SOAP WebService # (http://www.w3schools.com/xml/tempconvert.asmx). When I do that I am getting an Error.
ErrorMessage [payload=org.springframework.messaging.MessageHandlingException: error occurred in message handler [wsOutboundGateway]; nested exception is org.springframework.ws.soap.client.SoapFaultClientException: Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction: ., headers={replyChannel=org.springframework.messaging.core.GenericMessagingTemplate$TemporaryReplyChannel#601affec, errorChannel=org.springframework.messaging.core.GenericMessagingTemplate$TemporaryReplyChannel#601affec, id=7f6624cc-e7a4-37f6-0a1f-578dc78c4afa, timestamp=1482356790717}]
As you can see the SOAPAction was Blank and the server did NOT like it.
If I hard code the SOAPAction like this
public MessageHandler wsOutboundGateway()
{
MarshallingWebServiceOutboundGateway temperatureConversionWebServiceGateway = new MarshallingWebServiceOutboundGateway(WEBSERVICE_URL, jaxb2Marshaller(), jaxb2Marshaller());
temperatureConversionWebServiceGateway.setRequestCallback(new SoapActionCallback("http://www.w3schools.com/xml/CelsiusToFahrenheit"));
temperatureConversionWebServiceGateway.setOutputChannelName("webServiceResponseChannel");
return temperatureConversionWebServiceGateway;
}
it works!
However, the endpoint exposes 2 Services (2 Possible Actions). See below.
FahrenheitToCelsius soapAction="http://www.w3schools.com/xml/FahrenheitToCelsius"
CelsiusToFahrenheit soapAction="http://www.w3schools.com/xml/CelsiusToFahrenheit"
I want to be able to set the SoapAction at run time based on the RabbitMQ Header Value ("operation"). How do I do it?
On a Side note, I have done a few different experiments to solve this problem but none seems to have yielded the results I am looking for. One of the solutions I tried was to set the SoapAction as part of the Transformation process (Converting the Input from Rabbit MQ message to the corresponding Java Type based on the RabbitMQ Header Value) and send that request to the Outbound Gateway (See Code below).
#Bean
public IntegrationFlow generateCelsiusToFahrenheitRequestFlow() {
Map<String, Object> headers = new HashMap<>();
headers.put("SOAPAction", "http://www.w3schools.com/xml/CelsiusToFahrenheit");
return IntegrationFlows.from(celsiusToFahrenheitChannel)
.transform(celsiusToFahrenheitTransformer)
.enrichHeaders(headers)
.channel(webServiceRequestChannel)
.get();
}
After I do that and tap the 'webServiceRequestChannel', I see the SoapAction Header that I added previously (See Below).
GenericMessage [payload=CelsiusToFahrenheit [celsius=32], headers={SOAPAction=http://www.w3schools.com/xml/CelsiusToFahrenheit, amqp_receivedDeliveryMode=NON_PERSISTENT,........
However, when the MarshallingWebServiceOutboundGateway picked up the request and makes the outbound call to the SOAP WebService, the "SOAPAction: " is still Blank. I am not sure why the Soap Action got blanked out. What am I missing?
Sorry if I have not followed conventions when Writing / Formatting my question. This is my first time here on Stack Overflow. Any inputs or suggestions to address this issues will be greatly appriciated.
Yeah, the mistake here that the header name must be exactly WebServiceHeaders.SOAP_ACTION, where its name is ws_soapAction. Only now a DefaultSoapHeaderMapper is able to map it into request WebserviceMessage:
public DefaultSoapHeaderMapper() {
super(WebServiceHeaders.PREFIX, STANDARD_HEADER_NAMES, Collections.<String>emptyList());
}

Spring integration setting a Adapter as Error channel

I wrote a simple flow for AMQP inbound messages with Json payloads, something like
IntegrationFlows
.from(Amqp.inboundGateway(connectionFactory, new Queue("qin"))
.errorChannel(Amqp.channel("dlx", connectionFactory))
)
.handle(new MessageTransformingHandler(m -> {
Object result = null;
try {
result = (...)
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new MessageTransformationException(m, e.getMessage());
}
(...)
}))
.transform(Transformers.toJson(...))
.handle(Amqp.outboundAdapter(new RabbitTemplate(connectionFactory))
.routingKey("qout"))
.get();
}
This works perfectly OK, except when there's errors! As it is now I do get the error in DLX but in content_type: application/x-java-serialized-object and it is required to be application/json.
I could do this by having the error channel specify 2 converters
.amqpMessageConverter(...)
.messageConverter(...)
but the problem is that I have to implement then myself which is not easy because I have to deal with converting messages to ampqmessages, plus the business objects, plues the error object and text, and so on...
So I was thinking if I couldn't have a adapter in front of the error channel that at least took care of message->amqpmessage conversion (hopefully the payloads as well).
I also tried having a errorHandler instead of a errorChannel but the problems are the same.
Any sugestion?
Thanks in advance.
EDITED
Many thanks for your reply. However I'm struggling with it. After many tries and errors, I finally think I understand the solution (to use a "intermediary" channel so I can handle the message before send it to Amqp?) but I still can't get it to work. I have now
.errorChannel(MessageChannels.direct("amqpErrorChannel").get())
and the a flow listening to that channel
#Bean
public IntegrationFlow errorFlow() {
return IntegrationFlows.from("amqpErrorChannel")
.handle(new MessageTransformingHandler(m ->(...)
but I still have a error
MessageDeliveryException: Dispatcher has no subscribers for channel
'amqpErrorChannel'.
Any pointers to what I'm doing wrong?
Cheers.
Yes, you can have .transform() or any other adapter in front of (Amqp.channel("dlx", connectionFactory). Actually .errorChannel() is just a hook to send error to the error handling flow. So, you can use there any simple Spring Integration channel (not an AMQP one) and build any complex error handling logic.
Correct, in the end of that flow you can send a result message (after a bunch of transformation, enrichment etc.) to the AMQP dlx, but for this purpose the simple one-way Amqp.outboundAdapter() would be enough.
To be honest Amqp.channel() is two-way and that really would be better that you have a subscriber for it. But your case is one-way, so you should use Amqp.outboundAdapter() there instead.

Spring Integration HttpRequestExecutingMessageHandler with url parameter expressions

I have a HttpRequestExecutingMessageHandler which should make HTTP GET requests to an endpoint URI and, for each request, it should pass two URL parameters with values obtained from the flowing message's headers. How can I get a Message's header values and apply them to each request made via the HttpRequestExecutingMessageHandler?
So far I have tried configuring my handler as follows:
SpelExpressionParser expressionParser = new SpelExpressionParser();
Map<String, Expression> uriVariableExpressions = new HashMap<String, Expression>(2);
uriVariableExpressions.put("userId", expressionParser.parseExpression("headers.userId"));
uriVariableExpressions.put("roleId", expressionParser.parseExpression("headers.roleId"));
HttpRequestExecutingMessageHandler handler = new HttpRequestExecutingMessageHandler(uri);
handler.setHttpMethod(HttpMethod.GET);
handler.setUriVariableExpressions(uriVariableExpressions);
but, when a message flows through and the HTTP request is made, the Message's userId and roleId header values are not set as parameters in the request's URL. When debugging, I can see that the Message's headers and values are definitely in the flowing Messages. Is the spel expression correct?
Thanks,
PM
Your uri has to have placeholders to substitute your variables, e.g.:
http://foo.com/service?userId={userId}&roleId={roleId}
From other side, show, please, your uri and the logs, when you send a message.

An aggregator that can release when all records are processed, even with errors

I am building a system with Spring Integration that processes all lines in a file as records. Because some of the String records are malformed I have multiple paths through the application via a Splitter and Aggregator combination (I'm building the Aggregator as we speak).
Further, some of the records are so malformed that they are effectively errors. However I have a requirement that all records must be processed therefore I must identify and log gross malformation errors separately and finish processing the file. In other words, I can not fail to process the file but instead must only log errors.
Aggregator
I intend to do achieve the goal of processing grossly malformed records by modifying the headers on the incoming message and passing the message on-ward to the Aggregator which can search for the existence of such a parameter. I'll effectively be hand coding in some error handling situations to my processors and aggregator.
My Release Strategy for the Aggregator will be when all messages are processed.
Code Extract
This code comes from a blog entry by Matt Vickery. He constructs an entirely new message (using MessageBuilder and transferring headers) whereas I will just add something to the Message headers. He includes this code in a gateway which subsequently transfers the Message onto the Aggregator.
public Message<AvsResponse> service(Message<AvsRequest> message) {
Assert.notNull(message, MISSING_MANDATORY_ARG);
Assert.notNull(message.getPayload(), MISSING_MANDATORY_ARG);
MessageHeaders requestMessageHeaders = message.getHeaders();
Message<AvsResponse> responseMessage = null;
try {
logger.debug("Entering AVS Gateway");
responseMessage = avsGateway.send(message);
if (responseMessage == null)
responseMessage = buildNewResponse(requestMessageHeaders,
AvsResponseType.NULL_RESULT);
logger.debug("Exited AVS Gateway");
return responseMessage;
}
catch (Exception e) {
return buildNewResponse(responseMessage, requestMessageHeaders,
AvsResponseType.EXCEPTION_RESULT, e);
}
}
Confusion (...at least, that which I know about)
My questions are as follows:
When I have such a release strategy (all messages processed), is that the best way to ensure all messages get through to the Aggregator?
When using an Aggregator it seems like in practical cases, it would be very common to need access to the Message in some previous step, as opposed to just passing and processing simple POJOs. Would that be true or is there something I should be doing to simplify my design so I can avoid Message
I came across a blog entry by Matt Vickery showing how he achieves what seems to be similar with an Aggregator. I'm using his work as a guide.
P.S. Per Artem Bilan's advice, I'm avoiding creating my own messages and letting SI turn them into Messages
There is no difference for Aggregator if payload is valid or not. Its general purpose is to build a List (by default) of payloads to one Message. And it does it via some sequenceDetails from MessageHeaders. It is first.
If you use Splitter, it is responsible to enrich each produced Message with default sequenceDetails. So, if you have this configuration:
<splitter/>
<aggregator/>
And if your inbound payload is List, you end up with List after aggregator as well.
I assume, that your Splitter just produces String payloads from File lines.
Then you pass each Message to some service/transformer.
The result of that you may pass to the Aggregator.
But as you say some of payloads are not valid and your processor fails with an Exception.
So, how about just try...catch within that POJO method and return some payload with error indicator, e.g. simple String "Oops!".
As I described before: the result of POJO method will be pushed to payload of the Message by Framework. And what is magic, that sequenceDetails will be there in the MessageHeaders too.
I don't see reason to write some custom ReleaseStrategy for this task, or even any other Aggregator's strategies...
Let me know, what you don't understand.
UPDATE
To add some error-indicator to message headers and don't throw Exception, it really will be simpler to build a new Message from code, not via some error-channel flow:
try {
return [GOOD_RESULT];
}
catch(Exception e) {
return MessageBuilder.withPayload(payload).setHeader("ERROR", e.getMessage()).build();
}
But in this case you should use <service-activator> instead of <transformer>, because the last one doesn't copy headers from inbound Message. And you really need them - setHeader for aggregator.

Web API action filter content can't be read

Related question: Web API action parameter is intermittently null and http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/25753b53-95b3-4252-b034-7e086341ad20/web-api-action-parameter-is-intermittently-null
Hi!
I'm creating a ActionFilterAttribute in ASP.Net MVC WebAPI 4 so I can apply the attribute in action methods at the controller that we need validation of a token before execute it as the following code:
public class TokenValidationAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
public override void OnActionExecuting(HttpActionContext filterContext)
{
//Tried this way
var result = string.Empty;
filterContext.Request.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().ContinueWith((r)=> content = r.Result);
//And this
var result = filterContext.Request.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
//And this
var bytes = await request.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync().Result;
var str = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);
//omit the other code that use this string below here for simplicity
}
}
I'm trying to read the content as string. Tried the 3 ways as stated in this code, and all of them return empty. I know that in WebApi I can read only once the body content of the request, so I'm commenting everything else in the code, and trying to get it run to see if I'm getting a result. The point is, the client and even the Fiddler, reports the 315 of the content length of the request. The same size is getting on the server content header as well but, when we try read the content, it is empty.
If I remove the attribute and make the same request, the controller is called well, and the deserialization of Json happens flawless. If I put the attribute, all I get is a empty string from the content. It happens ALWAYS. Not intermittent as the related questions state.
What am I doing wrong? Keep in mind that I'm using ActionFilter instead of DelegatingHandler because only selected actions requires the token validation prior to execution.
Thanks for help! I really appreciate it.
Regards...
Gutemberg
By default the buffer policy for Web Host(IIS) scenarios is that the incoming request's stream is always buffered. You can take a look at System.Web.Http.WebHost.WebHostBufferPolicySelector. Now as you have figured, Web Api's formatters will consume the stream and will not try to rewind it back. This is on purpose because one could change the buffer policy to make the incoming request's stream to be non-buffered in which case the rewinding would fail.
So in your case, since you know that the request is going to be always buffered, you could get hold of the incoming stream like below and rewind it.
Stream reqStream = await request.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync();
if(reqStream.CanSeek)
{
reqStream.Position = 0;
}
//now try to read the content as string
string data = await request.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

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