Http-call
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Description
The GreenVulcano® ESB HTTP plugin allows the data exchange through the HTTP protocol with applications.
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:
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. Refer to HttpClient documentation for further info: http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/sslguide.html
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:
|
| value | optional | Parameter value. Do not specify the value of this parameter if null should be passed. #Encrypted. The attribute's admitted values are:
|
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:
|
| request-uri | required | Request URI. Can contain placeholders. |
| ref-dp | optional | Name of Data Provider to use to prepare the request. |
