The microprofile-rest-client quickstart demonstrates the use of the MicroProfile REST Client specification in WildFly.

What is it?

MicroProfile REST Client provides a type-safe approach to invoke RESTful services over HTTP. It relies on Jakarta REST APIs for consistency and easier reuse.

Architecture

In this quickstart we have a country server and a country client used in the test. The server provides a simple REST interface providing information about some countries. The test creates a client that consumes this API through the MicroProfile REST Client specification.

System Requirements

The application this project produces is designed to be run on WildFly Application Server 32 or later.

All you need to build this project is Java 11.0 (Java SDK 11) or later and Maven 3.6.0 or later. See Configure Maven to Build and Deploy the Quickstarts to make sure you are configured correctly for testing the quickstarts.

Use of the WILDFLY_HOME and QUICKSTART_HOME Variables

In the following instructions, replace WILDFLY_HOME with the actual path to your WildFly installation. The installation path is described in detail here: Use of WILDFLY_HOME and JBOSS_HOME Variables.

When you see the replaceable variable QUICKSTART_HOME, replace it with the path to the root directory of all of the quickstarts.

Start the WildFly Standalone Server

  1. Open a terminal and navigate to the root of the WildFly directory.

  2. Start the WildFly server with the MicroProfile profile by typing the following command.

    $ WILDFLY_HOME/bin/standalone.sh -c standalone-microprofile.xml
    Note
    For Windows, use the WILDFLY_HOME\bin\standalone.bat script.

Build and Deploy the Quickstart

  1. Make sure WildFly server is started.

  2. Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of this quickstart.

  3. Type the following command to build the quickstart.

    $ mvn clean install
  4. Type the following command to deploy the quickstart.

    $ mvn wildfly:deploy

This deploys the microprofile-rest-client/target/microprofile-rest-client.jar to the running instance of the server.

You should see a message in the server log indicating that the archive deployed successfully.

Access the Country Server Application

The application will be running at the following URL: http://localhost:8080/microprofile-rest-client/.

You can verify that the server is responding by accessing http://localhost:8080/microprofile-rest-client/name/France endpoint using your browser or curl http://localhost:8080/microprofile-rest-client/name/France to get some information about France.

The Country REST Client

Using the MicroProfile REST Client is as simple as creating an interface which uses the proper Jakarta REST and MicroProfile annotations. In this case, the org.wildfly.quickstarts.microprofile.rest.client.CountriesServiceClient interface may be found in src/test/java:

package org.wildfly.quickstarts.microprofile.rest.client;

import org.eclipse.microprofile.rest.client.inject.RegisterRestClient;
import org.wildfly.quickstarts.microprofile.rest.client.model.Country;

import jakarta.ws.rs.GET;
import jakarta.ws.rs.Path;
import jakarta.ws.rs.PathParam;
import jakarta.ws.rs.Produces;

@Path("/")
public interface CountriesServiceClient {

    @GET
    @Path("/name/{name}")
    @Produces("application/json")
    Country getByName(@PathParam("name") String name);

    @GET
    @Path("/name/{name}")
    @Produces("application/json")
    CompletionStage<Country> getByNameAsync(@PathParam("name") String name);
}

The getByName method gives our code the ability to query a country by name from the REST Countries API, while the getByNameAsync method is an asynchronous alternative. The client will handle all the networking and marshalling leaving our code clean of such technical details.

As you can see, all that our REST client interface uses for now are standard Jakarta REST annotations.

Regarding integrating the REST Client in your application, there are two options, the CDI lookup and the programmatic lookup, and both may be found in the org.wildfly.quickstarts.microprofile.rest.client.CountriesResource class, respectively in use by cdiName(String) and programmaticName(String) methods.

package org.wildfly.quickstarts.microprofile.rest.client;

import jakarta.ws.rs.WebApplicationException;
import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.inject.ConfigProperty;
import org.eclipse.microprofile.rest.client.RestClientBuilder;
import org.eclipse.microprofile.rest.client.inject.RestClient;

import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
import jakarta.inject.Inject;
import jakarta.ws.rs.GET;
import jakarta.ws.rs.NotFoundException;
import jakarta.ws.rs.Path;
import jakarta.ws.rs.PathParam;
import jakarta.ws.rs.Produces;
import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import org.wildfly.quickstarts.microprofile.Country;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletionStage;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

@Path("/country")
@ApplicationScoped
public class CountriesResource {

    @Inject
    @RestClient
    private CountriesServiceClient countriesServiceClient;

    @Inject
    @ConfigProperty(name = "server.host")
    private String serverHost;

    @GET
    @Path("/cdi/{name}")
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    public Country cdiName(@PathParam("name") String name) {
        try {
            return countriesServiceClient.getByName(name);
        } catch (NotFoundException e) {
            return null;
        }
    }

    @GET
    @Path("/programmatic/{name}")
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    public Country programmaticName(@PathParam("name") String name) throws MalformedURLException {
        CountriesServiceClient client = RestClientBuilder.newBuilder()
                .baseUrl(new URL(serverHost))
                .build(CountriesServiceClient.class);
        return client.getByName(name);
    }

    @GET
    @Path("/name-async/{name}")
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    public CompletionStage<Country> nameAsync(@PathParam("name") String name) {
        CompletionStage<Country> completionStage = countriesServiceClient.getByNameAsync(name);
        try {
            TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(1L);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            throw new WebApplicationException(e);
        }
        return completionStage;
    }
}

Run the Integration Tests

This quickstart includes integration tests, which are located under the src/test/ directory. The integration tests verify that the quickstart runs correctly when deployed on the server.

Follow these steps to run the integration tests.

  1. Make sure WildFly server is started.

  2. Make sure the quickstart is deployed.

  3. Type the following command to run the verify goal with the integration-testing profile activated.

    $ mvn verify -Pintegration-testing 

Undeploy the Quickstart

When you are finished testing the quickstart, follow these steps to undeploy the archive.

  1. Make sure WildFly server is started.

  2. Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of this quickstart.

  3. Type this command to undeploy the archive:

    $ mvn wildfly:undeploy

Building and running the quickstart application in a bootable JAR

You can use the WildFly JAR Maven plug-in to build a WildFly bootable JAR to run this quickstart.

The quickstart pom.xml file contains a Maven profile named bootable-jar which configures the bootable JAR building:

      <profile>
          <id>bootable-jar</id>
          <build>
              <plugins>
                  <plugin>
                      <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
                      <artifactId>wildfly-jar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                      <configuration>
                          <feature-pack-location>wildfly@maven(org.jboss.universe:community-universe)#${version.server}</feature-pack-location>
                          <layers>
                              <layer>jaxrs-server</layer>
                              <layer>microprofile-config</layer>
                          </layers>
                          <plugin-options>
                              <jboss-fork-embedded>true</jboss-fork-embedded>
                          </plugin-options>
                      </configuration>
                      <executions>
                          <execution>
                              <goals>
                                  <goal>package</goal>
                              </goals>
                          </execution>
                      </executions>
                  </plugin>
              </plugins>
          </build>
      </profile>
Procedure
  1. Build the quickstart bootable JAR with the following command:

    $ mvn clean package -Pbootable-jar
  2. Run the quickstart application contained in the bootable JAR:

    $ java -jar target/microprofile-rest-client-bootable.jar
  3. You can now interact with the quickstart application.

Note

After the quickstart application is deployed, the bootable JAR includes the application in the root context. Therefore, any URLs related to the application should not have the /microprofile-rest-client path segment after HOST:PORT.

Run the Integration Tests with a bootable jar

The integration tests included with this quickstart, which verify that the quickstart runs correctly, may also be run with a bootable jar.

Follow these steps to run the integration tests.

  1. Make sure the bootable jar is provisioned.

    $ mvn clean package -Pbootable-jar
  2. Start the WildFly bootable jar, this time using the WildFly Maven Jar Plugin, which is recommend for testing due to simpler automation.

    $ mvn wildfly-jar:start -Djar-file-name=target/microprofile-rest-client-bootable.jar
  3. Type the following command to run the verify goal with the integration-testing profile activated, and specifying the quickstart’s URL using the server.host system property, which for a bootable jar by default is http://localhost:8080.

    $ mvn verify -Pintegration-testing -Dserver.host=http://localhost:8080
  4. Shutdown the WildFly bootable jar, this time using the WildFly Maven Jar Plugin too.

    $ mvn wildfly-jar:shutdown

Building and running the quickstart application with OpenShift

Build the WildFly Source-to-Image (S2I) Quickstart to OpenShift with Helm Charts

On OpenShift, the S2I build with Apache Maven uses an openshift Maven profile to provision a WildFly server, deploy and run the quickstart in OpenShift environment.

The server provisioning functionality is provided by the WildFly Maven Plugin, and you may find its configuration in the quickstart pom.xml:

        <profile>
            <id>openshift</id>
            <build>
                <plugins>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
                        <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                        <configuration>
                            <feature-packs>
                                <feature-pack>
                                    <location>org.wildfly:wildfly-galleon-pack:${version.server}</location>
                                </feature-pack>
                                <feature-pack>
                                    <location>org.wildfly.cloud:wildfly-cloud-galleon-pack:${version.pack.cloud}</location>
                                </feature-pack>
                            </feature-packs>
                            <layers>...</layers>
                            <name>ROOT.war</name>
                        </configuration>
                        <executions>
                            <execution>
                                <goals>
                                    <goal>package</goal>
                                </goals>
                            </execution>
                        </executions>
                    </plugin>
                    ...
                </plugins>
            </build>
        </profile>

You may note that unlike the provisioned-server profile it uses the cloud feature pack which enables a configuration tuned for OpenShift environment.

Getting Started with WildFly for OpenShift and Helm Charts

This section contains the basic instructions to build and deploy this quickstart to WildFly for OpenShift or WildFly for OpenShift Online using Helm Charts.

Prerequisites

  • You must be logged in OpenShift and have an oc client to connect to OpenShift

  • Helm must be installed to deploy the backend on OpenShift.

Once you have installed Helm, you need to add the repository that provides Helm Charts for WildFly.

$ helm repo add wildfly https://docs.wildfly.org/wildfly-charts/
"wildfly" has been added to your repositories
$ helm search repo wildfly
NAME                    CHART VERSION   APP VERSION     DESCRIPTION
wildfly/wildfly         ...             ...            Build and Deploy WildFly applications on OpenShift
wildfly/wildfly-common  ...             ...            A library chart for WildFly-based applications

Deploy the WildFly Source-to-Image (S2I) Quickstart to OpenShift with Helm Charts

Log in to your OpenShift instance using the oc login command. The backend will be built and deployed on OpenShift with a Helm Chart for WildFly.

Navigate to the root directory of this quickstart and run the following command:

$ helm install microprofile-rest-client -f charts/helm.yaml wildfly/wildfly --wait --timeout=10m0s
NAME: microprofile-rest-client
...
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1

This command will return once the application has successfully deployed. In case of a timeout, you can check the status of the application with the following command in another terminal:

oc get deployment microprofile-rest-client

The Helm Chart for this quickstart contains all the information to build an image from the source code using S2I on Java 17:

build:
  uri: https://github.com/wildfly/quickstart.git
  ref: 32.x
  contextDir: microprofile-rest-client
deploy:
  replicas: 1

This will create a new deployment on OpenShift and deploy the application.

If you want to see all the configuration elements to customize your deployment you can use the following command:

$ helm show readme wildfly/wildfly

Get the URL of the route to the deployment.

$ oc get route microprofile-rest-client -o jsonpath="{.spec.host}"

Access the application in your web browser using the displayed URL.

Note

The Maven profile named openshift is used by the Helm chart to provision the server with the quickstart deployed on the root web context, and thus the application should be accessed with the URL without the /microprofile-rest-client path segment after HOST:PORT.

Run the Integration Tests with OpenShift

The integration tests included with this quickstart, which verify that the quickstart runs correctly, may also be run with the quickstart running on OpenShift.

Note

The integration tests expect a deployed application, so make sure you have deployed the quickstart on OpenShift before you begin.

Run the integration tests using the following command to run the verify goal with the integration-testing profile activated and the proper URL:

$ mvn verify -Pintegration-testing -Dserver.host=https://$(oc get route microprofile-rest-client --template='{{ .spec.host }}') 
Note

The tests are using SSL to connect to the quickstart running on OpenShift. So you need the certificates to be trusted by the machine the tests are run from.

Undeploy the WildFly Source-to-Image (S2I) Quickstart from OpenShift with Helm Charts

$ helm uninstall microprofile-rest-client

Conclusion

MicroProfile REST Client provides you with an option to define REST clients in a clear, declarative, and intuitive way using the same annotations as for your Jakarta REST resources. It also allows you to make the HTTP communication on the background transparent for your services with the direct data conversions and exception mappers. You can find more information about the MicroProfile REST Client specification at https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-rest-client.