cHttp

Provides HTTP-based endpoints for consuming and producing HTTP
resources.

cHttp Standard properties

These properties are used to configure cHttp running in the Standard Job framework.

The Standard
cHttp component belongs to the Connectivity/Internet family.

Basic settings

Uri	The URI of the Http resource to call.
Client	Select this option to use cHttp as a client to call external servers.
Server	Select this option to use cHttp as a server to produce Web services.
Client Configuration / Method	Select an Http request method from GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, and TRACE in the list.
	GET: Retrieve the information identified by the request URI. Parameters: click the [+] button to add lines as needed and define the key and value in the table. Encoder Charset: enter the encoder charset in the field.
	POST: Request that the origin server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by the request URI. Plain Text: select the Content-Type from text/plain, text/html, text/xml, application/x-www-form-urlencoded, application/xml, application/JSON, or other… (specify the Content-Type in the next field that appears when other… is selected), and type in the text in the Content box as the request message. Form Style: click the [+] button to add lines as needed and define the key and value in the Parameters table. Also, enter the encoder charset in the Encoder Charset field. Use Message Body: use the incoming message body as the Http request. Select the Content-Type from text/plain, text/html, text/xml, application/x-www-form-urlencoded, application/xml, application/JSON, or other… (specify the Content-Type in the next field that appears when other… is selected),
	PUT: Request that the enclosed entity be stored under the supplied request URI. Plain Text: select the Content-Type from text/plain, text/html, text/xml, application/x-www-form-urlencoded, application/xml, application/JSON, or other… (specify the Content-Type in the next field that appears when other… is selected), and type in the text in the Content box as the request message. Form Style: click the [+] button to add lines as needed and define the key and value in the Parameters table. Also, enter the encoder charset in the Encoder Charset field. Use Message Body: use the incoming message body as the Http request. Select the Content-Type from text/plain, text/html, text/xml, application/x-www-form-urlencoded, application/xml, application/JSON, or other… (specify the Content-Type in the next field that appears when other… is selected),
	DELETE: Request that the origin server delete the resource identified by the request URI. Parameters: click the [+] button to add lines as needed and define the key and value in the table. Encoder Charset: enter the encoder charset in the field.
	HEAD: Identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message body in the response. Parameters: click the [+] button to add lines as needed and define the key and value in the table. Encoder Charset: enter the encoder charset in the field.
	OPTIONS: Represent a request for information about the communication options available on the request/response chain identified by the request URI.
	TRACE: Invoke a remote, application-layer loop-back of the request message.
Server Configuration / Disable Stream Cache	DefaultHttpBinding will copy the request input stream into a stream cache and put it into message body. When this check box is selected, DefaultHttpBinding will set the request input stream directly into the message body.
Server Configuration / Session Support	Select this check box to enable the session manager on the server side of Jetty.
Server Configuration / Use Transfer-Encoding	This option is enabled by default. If this check box is cleared, Jetty servlet will disable the HTTP streaming and set the content-length header on the response.
Server Configuration / Enable JMX	Select this option to enable Jetty JMX support for this endpoint. For more information about this option, see the sitehttp://camel.apache.org/jetty.html#Jetty-JettyJMXsupport.
Server Configuration / Match on URI Prefix	Select this check box to use the CamelServlet to find a target consumer by matching the URI prefix if no exact match is found. For more information about this option, see the site http://camel.apache.org/how-do-i-let-jetty-match-wildcards.html.
Server Configuration / Use Jetty Continuation	Select this check box to use Jetty continuations for the Jetty Server. For more information about this option, see the site http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Feature/Continuations.
Server Configuration / Enable HTTP TRACE	Select this option to enable the HTTP TRACE method.

Advanced settings

Headers	Click the [+] button to add lines as needed and define the key and value for headers.

Usage

Usage rule	cHttp provides Http based endpoints for consuming external Http resources, that is to say as a client to call external servers using Http.
Limitation	Due to license incompatibility, one or more JARs required to use this component are not provided. You can install the missing JARs for this particular component by clicking the Install button on the Component tab view. You can also find out and add all missing JARs easily on the Modules tab in the Integration perspective of your studio. You can find more details about how to install external modules in Talend Help Center (https://help.talend.com).

Usage rule

cHttp provides Http based endpoints for consuming
external Http resources, that is to say as a client to call external
servers using Http.

Limitation

Due to license incompatibility, one or more JARs required to use this component are not
provided. You can install the missing JARs for this particular component by clicking the
Install button on the Component tab view. You can also find out and add all missing JARs easily on the
Modules tab in the
Integration
perspective of your
studio. You can find more details about how to install external modules in Talend Help Center (https://help.talend.com).

Scenario 1: Retrieving the content of a remote file

This scenario applies only to a Talend solution with ESB.

In this scenario, cHttp is used to request the body
of a weather condition definition file that is available at
http://wsf.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Weather.asmx
.

Dropping and linking the components

Drop the following components from the Palette onto the workspace: cMessagingEndpoint, cSetBody, cHttp and
cProcessor, labelled as STARTER, HTTP_REQUEST_BODY, GET_WEATHER_DESCRIPTION and PRINT_RESPONSE respectively.
Link the components using a Row >
Route connection.

Configuring the components

Double-click cMessagingEndpoint to open
its Basic settings view in the Component tab.
In the URI field, enter
timer:go?repeatCount=1 to define a timer for starting
message exchanges. In this example, only one message exchange will be
carried out due to the setting of repeatCount=1.
Double-click cSetBody to open its
Basic settings view in the Component tab.
In the Language field, select Constant.

In the Expression field, enter the
following as the body of the request message:

&lt;soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:weat="http://ws.cdyne.com
/WeatherWS/"&gt;&lt;soapenv:Header/&gt;&lt;soapenv:Body&gt;&lt;weat:GetWeatherDefinitionInformation/&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Body&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Envelope&gt;

1 2	<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:weat="http://ws.cdyne.com /WeatherWS/"><soapenv:Header/><soapenv:Body><weat:GetWeatherDefinitionInformation/></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>

Double-click cHttp to open
its Basic settings view in the Component tab.
In the Uri field, enter the location of
the file to fetch, http://wsf.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Weather.asmx in this
example.
Click the Client radio button to use this
cHttp component as a client.
Select POST in the Method list and then the Use Message Body radio button. Select text/xml in the Content-Type list.
Click Advanced settings for further setup.
Click the [+] button to add a line in the
Headers table.

Type in SOAPAction and
http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/GetWeatherInformation for the
Key and Value fields.
Double-click cProcessor to open its
Basic settings view in the Component tab.

In the Code area, enter the following to print the
response from the remote website, the body of the desired file:

System.out.println("--------------------RESPONSE--------------------");
System.out.println(exchange.getIn().getBody(String.class));
System.out.println("--------------------END--------------------");

System.out.println("--------------------RESPONSE--------------------");

System.out.println(exchange.getIn().getBody(String.class));

System.out.println("--------------------END--------------------");

Press Ctrl+S to save your Route.

Viewing code and executing the Route

Click the Code tab at the bottom of the
design workspace to check the generated code.

As shown above, the message exchange starts from the endpoint
STARTER, gets its body set to <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"xmlns:weat="http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/"><soapenv:Header/><soapenv:Body><weat:GetWeatherDefinitionInformation/></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>
at cSetBody_1, and then is sent out to the specified website by
cHttp_1. Finally, the response is printed out via
cProcessor_1.
Press F6 to execute the Route.

As shown above, the retrieved file defines up to 37 weather conditions
with detailed description.