November 15, 2013 · osgi petprojects

Camel CXF Service with Multiple Query Parameters

While the awesome Apache Camel team is busy fixing the handling of the multiple parameters in the query, here's a workaround. Hopefully, this post will become obsolete with the next versions of Camel. (Currently, I use 2.7.5)

Problem

Query parameters more than 1 is passed as a null value into a Camel-CXF service. Say, if the URL has four query parameters as in

name=arun&email=arun@arunma.com&age=10&phone=123456

only the first one gets populated when you do a


@GET
@Path("search")
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public String sourceResultsFromTwoSources(@QueryParam("name") String name,
					@QueryParam("age") String age,
		            @QueryParam("phone") String phone,
                    @QueryParam("email") String email
);

All other parameters are null.

Final Output

For url

http://localhost:8181/cxf/karafcxfcamel/search?name=arun&email=arun@arunma.com&age=31&phone=232323

the result expected is :

Final Output

Workaround

Interestingly, we could get the entire query string in the header.

String queryString = exchange.getIn().getHeader(Exchange.HTTP_QUERY, String.class);

We could then do a

MultivaluedMap<String, String> queryMap = JAXRSUtils.getStructuredParams(queryString, "&", false, false);

to get the query parameters as a multi valued Map.

The query parameters could then be set as a property to the Exchange and used across the exchange.

Code

The entire code could be downloaded from github

Please note that I am running Camel as part of OSGi inside the Karaf container. While the workaround does not differ because of the environment in which you are using Camel-CXF, please be wary of this fact when you download the code from github. Watch out for the blueprint xmls for Camel configuration.

The most important piece here is the Router

Router


package me.rerun.karafcxfcamel.camel.beans;

import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
import org.apache.camel.Processor;
import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;
import org.apache.camel.model.dataformat.JsonLibrary;
import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.utils.JAXRSUtils;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class RestToBeanRouter extends RouteBuilder {

    private static Logger logger= LoggerFactory.getLogger(RouteBuilder.class);

    @Override
    public void configure() throws Exception {

        from ("cxfrs://bean://rsServer")
                .process(new ParamProcessor())
                .multicast()
                .parallelProcessing()
                .aggregationStrategy(new ResultAggregator())
                .beanRef("restServiceImpl", "getNameEmailResult")
                .beanRef("restServiceImpl", "getAgePhoneResult")
                .end()
                .marshal().json(JsonLibrary.Jackson)
                .to("log://camelLogger?level=DEBUG");
    }

    private class ParamProcessor implements Processor {

        @Override
        public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception {
            String queryString = exchange.getIn().getHeader(Exchange.HTTP_QUERY, String.class);

            MultivaluedMap<String, String> queryMap = JAXRSUtils.getStructuredParams(queryString, "&", false, false);

            for (Map.Entry<String, List<String>> eachQueryParam : queryMap.entrySet()) {
                exchange.setProperty(eachQueryParam.getKey(), eachQueryParam.getValue());
            }


        }

    }
}

Interface


package me.rerun.karafcxfcamel.rest;

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;

public interface RestService {

    @GET
    @Path("search")
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    public String sourceResultsFromTwoSources();

}

Implementation


package me.rerun.karafcxfcamel.rest;

import me.rerun.karafcxfcamel.model.AgePhoneResult;
import me.rerun.karafcxfcamel.model.NameEmailResult;
import me.rerun.karafcxfcamel.service.base.AgePhoneService;
import me.rerun.karafcxfcamel.service.base.NameEmailService;
import me.rerun.karafcxfcamel.service.impl.AgePhoneServiceImpl;
import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.util.List;

public class RestServiceImpl implements RestService {

    private static Logger logger= LoggerFactory.getLogger(AgePhoneServiceImpl.class);

    private NameEmailService nameEmailService;
    private AgePhoneService agePhoneService;

    public RestServiceImpl(){
    }

    //Do nothing. Camel intercepts and routes the requests
    public String sourceResultsFromTwoSources() {
        return null;
    }


    public NameEmailResult getNameEmailResult(Exchange exchange){
        logger.info("Invoking getNameEmailResult from RestServiceImpl");

        String name=getFirstEntrySafelyFromList(exchange.getProperty("name", List.class));
        String email=getFirstEntrySafelyFromList(exchange.getProperty("email", List.class));

        return nameEmailService.getNameAndEmail(name, email);
    }


    public AgePhoneResult getAgePhoneResult(Exchange exchange){
        logger.info("Invoking getAgePhoneResult from RestServiceImpl");

        String age=getFirstEntrySafelyFromList(exchange.getProperty("age", List.class));
        String phone=getFirstEntrySafelyFromList(exchange.getProperty("phone", List.class));

        return agePhoneService.getAgePhoneResult(age, phone);
    }

    public NameEmailService getNameEmailService() {
        return nameEmailService;
    }

    public AgePhoneService getAgePhoneService() {
        return agePhoneService;
    }

    public void setNameEmailService(NameEmailService nameEmailService) {
        this.nameEmailService = nameEmailService;
    }

    public void setAgePhoneService(AgePhoneService agePhoneService) {
        this.agePhoneService = agePhoneService;
    }

    private String getFirstEntrySafelyFromList(List<String> list){

        if (list!=null && !list.isEmpty()){
            return list.get(0);
        }
        return null;
    }
}

Reference

Camel Mailing List Question