Utilizar o barramento de eventos
Quarkus allows different beans to interact using asynchronous events, thus promoting loose-coupling. The messages are sent to virtual addresses. It offers 3 types of delivery mechanism:
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point-to-point - send the message, one consumer receives it. If several consumers listen to the address, a round-robin is applied;
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publish/subscribe - publish a message, all the consumers listening to the address are receiving the message;
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request/reply - send the message and expect a response. The receiver can respond to the message in an asynchronous-fashion
All these delivery mechanisms are non-blocking, and are providing one of the fundamental brick to build reactive applications.
The asynchronous message passing feature allows replying to messages which is not supported by Reactive Messaging. However, it is limited to single-event behavior (no stream) and to local messages. |
Installing
This mechanism uses the Vert.x EventBus, so you need to enable the vertx
extension to use this feature.
If you are creating a new project, set the extensions
parameter as follows:
Para usuários do Windows:
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Se estiver usando cmd, (não use barra invertida '\' e coloque tudo na mesma linha)
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Se estiver usando o Powershell, envolva os parâmetros '-D' entre aspas duplas, por exemplo, '"-DprojectArtifactId=vertx-quickstart"'
If you have an already created project, the vertx
extension can be added to an existing Quarkus project with
the add-extension
command:
quarkus extension add vertx
./mvnw quarkus:add-extension -Dextensions='vertx'
./gradlew addExtension --extensions='vertx'
Otherwise, you can manually add this to the dependencies section of your build file:
<dependency>
<groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
<artifactId>quarkus-vertx</artifactId>
</dependency>
implementation("io.quarkus:quarkus-vertx")
Consuming events
To consume events, use the io.quarkus.vertx.ConsumeEvent
annotation:
package org.acme.vertx;
import io.quarkus.vertx.ConsumeEvent;
import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
@ApplicationScoped
public class GreetingService {
@ConsumeEvent (1)
public String consume(String name) { (2)
return name.toUpperCase();
}
}
1 | If not set, the address is the fully qualified name of the bean, for instance, in this snippet it’s org.acme.vertx.GreetingService . |
2 | The method parameter is the message body. If the method returns something it’s the message response. |
By default, the code consuming the event must be non-blocking, as it’s called on the Vert.x event loop.
If your processing is blocking, use the
Alternatively, you can annotate your method with
When using |
Asynchronous processing is also possible by returning either an io.smallrye.mutiny.Uni
or a java.util.concurrent.CompletionStage
:
package org.acme.vertx;
import io.quarkus.vertx.ConsumeEvent;
import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletionStage;
import io.smallrye.mutiny.Uni;
@ApplicationScoped
public class GreetingService {
@ConsumeEvent
public CompletionStage<String> consume(String name) {
// return a CompletionStage completed when the processing is finished.
// You can also fail the CompletionStage explicitly
}
@ConsumeEvent
public Uni<String> process(String name) {
// return an Uni completed when the processing is finished.
// You can also fail the Uni explicitly
}
}
Mutiny
The previous example uses Mutiny reactive types. If you are not familiar with Mutiny, check Mutiny - an intuitive reactive programming library. |
Configuring the address
The @ConsumeEvent
annotation can be configured to set the address:
@ConsumeEvent("greeting") (1)
public String consume(String name) {
return name.toUpperCase();
}
1 | Receive the messages sent to the greeting address |
Replying
The return value of a method annotated with @ConsumeEvent
is used as response to the incoming message.
For instance, in the following snippet, the returned String
is the response.
@ConsumeEvent("greeting")
public String consume(String name) {
return name.toUpperCase();
}
You can also return a Uni<T>
or a CompletionStage<T>
to handle asynchronous reply:
@ConsumeEvent("greeting")
public Uni<String> consume2(String name) {
return Uni.createFrom().item(() -> name.toUpperCase()).emitOn(executor);
}
You can inject an
Alternatively, you can use the default Quarkus worker pool using:
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Implementing fire and forget interactions
You don’t have to reply to received messages.
Typically, for a fire and forget interaction, the messages are consumed and the sender does not need to know about it.
To implement this, your consumer method just returns void
@ConsumeEvent("greeting")
public void consume(String event) {
// Do something with the event
}
Dealing with messages
As said above, this mechanism is based on the Vert.x event bus. So, you can also use Message
directly:
@ConsumeEvent("greeting")
public void consume(Message<String> msg) {
System.out.println(msg.address());
System.out.println(msg.body());
}
Handling Failures
If a method annotated with @ConsumeEvent
throws an exception then:
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if a reply handler is set then the failure is propagated back to the sender via an
io.vertx.core.eventbus.ReplyException
with codeConsumeEvent#FAILURE_CODE
and the exception message, -
if no reply handler is set then the exception is rethrown (and wrapped in a
RuntimeException
if necessary) and can be handled by the default exception handler, i.e.io.vertx.core.Vertx#exceptionHandler()
.
Sending messages
Ok, we have seen how to receive messages, let’s now switch to the other side: the sender. Sending and publishing messages use the Vert.x event bus:
package org.acme.vertx;
import io.smallrye.mutiny.Uni;
import io.vertx.mutiny.core.eventbus.EventBus;
import io.vertx.mutiny.core.eventbus.Message;
import jakarta.inject.Inject;
import jakarta.ws.rs.GET;
import jakarta.ws.rs.Path;
import jakarta.ws.rs.Produces;
import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
@Path("/async")
public class EventResource {
@Inject
EventBus bus; (1)
@GET
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
@Path("{name}")
public Uni<String> greeting(String name) {
return bus.<String>request("greeting", name) (2)
.onItem().transform(Message::body);
}
}
1 | Inject the Event bus |
2 | Send a message to the address greeting . Message payload is name |
The EventBus
object provides methods to:
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send
a message to a specific address - one single consumer receives the message. -
publish
a message to a specific address - all consumers receive the messages. -
send
a message and expect reply asynchronously -
send
a message and expect reply in a blocking manner
// Case 1
bus.<String>requestAndForget("greeting", name);
// Case 2
bus.publish("greeting", name);
// Case 3
Uni<String> response = bus.<String>request("address", "hello, how are you?")
.onItem().transform(Message::body);
// Case 4
String response = bus.<String>requestAndAwait("greeting", name).body();
Putting things together - bridging HTTP and messages
Let’s revisit a greeting HTTP endpoint and use asynchronous message passing to delegate the call to a separated bean. It uses the request/reply dispatching mechanism. Instead of implementing the business logic inside the Jakarta REST endpoint, we are sending a message. This message is consumed by another bean and the response is sent using the reply mechanism.
First create a new project using:
Para usuários do Windows:
-
Se estiver usando cmd, (não use barra invertida '\' e coloque tudo na mesma linha)
-
Se estiver usando o Powershell, envolva os parâmetros '-D' entre aspas duplas, por exemplo, '"-DprojectArtifactId=vertx-http-quickstart"'
You can already start the application in dev mode using:
quarkus dev
./mvnw quarkus:dev
./gradlew --console=plain quarkusDev
Then, creates a new Jakarta REST resource with the following content:
package org.acme.vertx;
import io.smallrye.mutiny.Uni;
import io.vertx.mutiny.core.eventbus.EventBus;
import io.vertx.mutiny.core.eventbus.Message;
import jakarta.inject.Inject;
import jakarta.ws.rs.GET;
import jakarta.ws.rs.Path;
import jakarta.ws.rs.Produces;
import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
@Path("/async")
public class EventResource {
@Inject
EventBus bus;
@GET
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
@Path("{name}")
public Uni<String> greeting(String name) {
return bus.<String>request("greeting", name) (1)
.onItem().transform(Message::body); (2)
}
}
1 | send the name to the greeting address and request a response |
2 | when we get the response, extract the body and send it to the user |
If you call this endpoint, you will wait and get a timeout. Indeed, no one is listening.
So, we need a consumer listening on the greeting
address. Create a GreetingService
bean with the following content:
package org.acme.vertx;
import io.quarkus.vertx.ConsumeEvent;
import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
@ApplicationScoped
public class GreetingService {
@ConsumeEvent("greeting")
public String greeting(String name) {
return "Hello " + name;
}
}
This bean receives the name, and returns the greeting message.
Now, open your browser to http://localhost:8080/async/Quarkus, and you should see:
Hello Quarkus
To better understand, let’s detail how the HTTP request/response has been handled:
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The request is received by the
hello
method -
a message containing the name is sent to the event bus
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Another bean receives this message and computes the response
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This response is sent back using the reply mechanism
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Once the reply is received by the sender, the content is written to the HTTP response
This application can be packaged using:
quarkus build
./mvnw install
./gradlew build
You can also compile it as a native executable with:
quarkus build --native
./mvnw install -Dnative
./gradlew build -Dquarkus.native.enabled=true
Using codecs
The Vert.x Event Bus uses codecs to serialize and deserialize objects. Quarkus provides a default codec for local delivery. So you can exchange objects as follows:
@GET
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
@Path("{name}")
public Uni<String> greeting(String name) {
return bus.<String>request("greeting", new MyName(name))
.onItem().transform(Message::body);
}
@ConsumeEvent(value = "greeting")
Uni<String> greeting(MyName name) {
return Uni.createFrom().item(() -> "Hello " + name.getName());
}
If you want to use a specific codec, you need to explicitly set it on both ends:
@GET
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
@Path("{name}")
public Uni<String> greeting(String name) {
return bus.<String>request("greeting", name,
new DeliveryOptions().setCodecName(MyNameCodec.class.getName())) (1)
.onItem().transform(Message::body);
}
@ConsumeEvent(value = "greeting", codec = MyNameCodec.class) (2)
Uni<String> greeting(MyName name) {
return Uni.createFrom().item(() -> "Hello "+name.getName());
}
1 | Set the name of the codec to use to send the message |
2 | Set the codec to use to receive the message |