Http-call

Description

This GreenVulcano^® ESB element is the HTTP VCL plugin to call HTTP methods on remote servers.

VulCon / GV Console Configuration

The http-call Element is used by: Channel and routed-call. Its attributes are:

Attribute	Type	Description
type	fixed	This attribute must assume the value call.
class	fixed	This attribute must assume the value it.greenvulcano.gvesb.virtual.http.HTTPCallOperation.
name	required	Operation name. Used in the Flow section to associate workflow nodes to VCL operations.

Might contain the following subelements:

• Description
• endpoint
• method

endpoint

Endpoint configuration to connect to the server.

The endpoint Element is used by: http-call. Its attributes are:

Attribute	Type	Description
host	required	Host to connect to.
port	optional	Port where the service is exposed. Default port is '80'.
secure	optional	Defines if the endpoint connection is secure or not. If secure is 'true', the default connection protocol will be 'http'; otherwise, the default connection protocol will be 'https'. The default value is 'false'.
custom-protocol	optional	Can be one of those defined locally for this 'http-call', or globally in GreenVulcano® ESB on GVSupport configuration.

It has the subelements:

• Description
• CustomProtocol
• Proxy

CustomProtocol

This element represents the custom protocol handler configuration. Referes to HttpClient documentation for further info: | http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/sslguide.html

The CustomProtocol Element is used by: endpoint. Its attributes are:

Attribute	Type	Description
name	required	Name identifier for this protocol.
protocol-scheme	required	The URI protocol scheme (http, https, etc.).
protocol-socket-factory	required	The custom socket factory class, implementation of class org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.ProtocolSocketFactory. If this class do not have a default constructor, you can specify constructor arguments using constructor-args element.
protocol-default-port	required	The default port number for this custom protocol.
protocol-virtual-scheme	optional	You can specify this parameter to use your own custom protocol designator as well as the default protocol implementation, specified by protocol-scheme attribute.

Its subelements are:

• Description
• constructor-args: containing more constructor-param items where you can specify the constructor arguments, if your protocol socket factory class does not have a default constructor.

constructor-param

The constructor-param Element is a constructor parameter. It has the attributes:

Attribute	Type	Description
type	required	Parameter type. Only simple java types are supported. The attribute's admitted values are: byte boolean char double float int long short String
value	optional	Parameter value. Do not specify the value of this parameter if null should be passed. #Encrypted. The attribute's admitted values are: true false

method

Method to execute to the server. It is used by: http-call.

Its attributes are:

Attribute	Type	Description
name	required	Method name. The attribute's admitted values are: OPTIONS GET HEAD POST PUT DELETE
request-uri	required	Request URI. Can contain placeholders.
ref-dp	optional	Name of Data Provider to use to prepare the request.