HTTP Remoting Utilities

This repository holds a small collection of useful utilities for use with HTTP Remoting setups, in particular those that use Feign as a client and Jersey as a server.

While allowing for further customizations, this library makes the following opinionated choices regarding the interplay of Java and HTTP interfaces:

• Server-side Java exceptions are serialized as JSON objects. Client-side error deserializers rethrow the original exception if possible, or a RuntimeException else.
• Optional<> service interfaces give rise to a 204 HTTP response code to encode Optional#absent. Client-side, 204 response codes are translated back to Optional#absent.
• String service interfaces are supported for HTTP media type TEXT_PLAIN.

http-clients

Provides Feign decoders for translating HTTP error codes to appropriate JAX-RS Java exceptions, and utilities for creating Feign clients in commonly used configurations. Additionally, offers a basic round-robin failover client configuration for basic failover between multiple equivalent endpoints.

ssl-config

Provides utilities for interacting with Java trust stores and key stores and acquiring SSLSocketFactory instances using those stores, as well as a configuration class for use in server configuration files.

error-handling

Provides utilities for relaying Java exceptions across JVM boundaries by serializing exceptions as JSON POJOs.

http-servers

Provides Dropwizard/Jersey exception mappers for translating common JAX-RS exceptions to appropriate HTTP error codes.

Usage

Gradle:

repositories {
  jcenter()
} 
dependencies {
  compile "com.palantir.remoting:http-clients:$version"
  compile "com.palantir.remoting:http-servers:$version"
  compile "com.palantir.remoting:ssl-config:$version"
  compile "com.palantir.remoting:error-handling:$version"
}

License

This repository is made available under the Apache 2.0 License.