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Revision as of 10:35, 9 February 2012

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:

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.