How can I get Start-Class programmatically? - spring-boot

How can I get Start-Class manifest property programmatically from a code in a jar inside BOOT-INF/lib?
I know I can get the LaunchURLClassLoader, call getResourceAsStream("META-INF/MANIFEST.MF") and then look for the property in the MANIFEST.MF but I'm not sure this is the best aproach

Your approach is fine and will probably work, but you can go one level of abstraction higher and use the Spring's Resource Loader.
Resource template = ctx.getResource("classpath:/path/to/manifest");

public class UserAgentSpringBootApplicationNameDiscoverer {
protected static final String BOOT_INF_DIR = "BOOT-INF/";
protected static final String MANIFEST_DIR = "META-INF/MANIFEST.MF";
public String getStartClassFromClassLoader(ClassLoader cl) {
URL bootInfUrl = cl.getResource(BOOT_INF_DIR);
if (bootInfUrl == null || "".equals(bootInfUrl.toString().trim())) {
return null;
}
String rootMetaInfUrl = bootInfUrl.toString().replace(BOOT_INF_DIR, MANIFEST_DIR);
InputStream is = cl.getResourceAsStream(rootMetaInfUrl.toString());
if (is == null) {
return null;
}
Manifest manifest = null;
try {
manifest = new Manifest(is);
} catch (IOException e) {
return null;
}
return manifest.getMainAttributes().getValue("Start-Class");
}
}

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Micrometer - WebMvcTagsContributor not adding custom tags

I'm trying to add custom tags - the path variables and their values from each request - to each metric micrometer generates. I'm using spring-boot with java 16.
From my research i've found that creating a bean of type WebMvcTagsContributor alows me to do just that.
This is the code
public class CustomWebMvcTagsContributor implements WebMvcTagsContributor {
private static int PRINT_ERROR_COUNTER = 0;
#Override
public Iterable<Tag> getTags(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response,
Object handler,
Throwable exception) {
return Tags.of(getAllTags(request));
}
private static List<Tag> getAllTags(HttpServletRequest request) {
Object attributesMapObject = request.getAttribute(View.PATH_VARIABLES);
if (isNull(attributesMapObject)) {
attributesMapObject = request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.URI_TEMPLATE_VARIABLES_ATTRIBUTE);
if (isNull(attributesMapObject)) {
attributesMapObject = extractPathVariablesFromURI(request);
}
}
if (nonNull(attributesMapObject)) {
return getPathVariablesTags(attributesMapObject);
}
return List.of();
}
private static Object extractPathVariablesFromURI(HttpServletRequest request) {
Long currentUserId = SecurityUtils.getCurrentUserId().orElse(null);
try {
URI uri = new URI(request.getRequestURI());
String path = uri.getPath(); //get the path
UriTemplate uriTemplate = new UriTemplate((String) request.getAttribute(
HandlerMapping.BEST_MATCHING_PATTERN_ATTRIBUTE)); //create template
return uriTemplate.match(path); //extract values form template
} catch (Exception e) {
log.warn("[Error on 3rd attempt]", e);
}
return null;
}
private static List<Tag> getPathVariablesTags(Object attributesMapObject) {
try {
Long currentUserId = SecurityUtils.getCurrentUserId().orElse(null);
if (nonNull(attributesMapObject)) {
var attributesMap = (Map<String, Object>) attributesMapObject;
List<Tag> tags = attributesMap.entrySet().stream()
.map(stringObjectEntry -> Tag.of(stringObjectEntry.getKey(),
String.valueOf(stringObjectEntry.getValue())))
.toList();
log.warn("[CustomTags] [{}]", CommonUtils.toJson(tags));
return tags;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
if (PRINT_ERROR_COUNTER < 5) {
log.error("[Error while getting attributes map object]", e);
PRINT_ERROR_COUNTER++;
}
}
return List.of();
}
#Override
public Iterable<Tag> getLongRequestTags(HttpServletRequest request, Object handler) {
return null;
}
}
#Bean
public WebMvcTagsContributor webMvcTagsContributor() {
return new CustomWebMvcTagsContributor();
}
In order to test this, i've created a small spring boot app, added an endpoint to it. It works just fine.
The problem is when I add this code to the production app.
The metrics generates are the default ones and i can't figure out why.
What can I check to see why the tags are not added?
local test project
http_server_requests_seconds_count {exception="None", method="GET",id="123",outcome="Success",status="200",test="test",uri="/test/{id}/compute/{test}",)1.0
in prod - different (& bigger) app
http_server_requests_seconds_count {exception="None", method="GET",outcome="Success",status="200",uri="/api/{something}/test",)1.0
What i've tried and didn't work
Created a bean that implemented WebMvcTagsProvider - this one had an odd behaviour - it wasn't creating metrics for endpoints that had path variables in the path - though in my local test project it worked as expected
I added that log there in order to see what the extra tags are but doesn't seem to reach there as i don't see anything in the logs - i know, you might say that the current user id stops it, but it's not that.

Implementing different destinations in applications on the Tomcat server

Earlier this year I developed an implementation of the SAP JCO CustomDestinationProvider for one of my Spring MVC tomcat applications. In my application, I use this implementation to call a BAPI in my SAP R/3 system to retrieve data.
I am now working on a second Spring MVC tomcat application that I want to have call a BAPI in my SAP R/3 system to retrieve data. It will be a different BAPI that I will be calling, thus it will be different data that I will be retrieving. Since this is a different application calling a different BAPI, I want to use a different SAP system user in my configurations. This new application will be running on the same physical tomcat server as the first application.
My question is should I develop another implementation of the SAP JCO CustomDestinationProvider for this new application or should I somehow reuse the first implementation? If the answer is that I should develop another implementation for this new application, I would expect then that I would develop another implementation for each new Spring MVC tomcat application that I develop that needs to talk to SAP. Is this correct thinking?
If I do a different implementation for this new application of mine, should I be using the same destination name in the code, or should I use a different name?
Below is the code for my first implementation of CustomDestinationDataProvider:
public class CustomDestinationDataProvider {
public class MyDestinationDataProvider implements DestinationDataProvider {
private DestinationDataEventListener eL;
private HashMap<String, Properties> secureDBStorage = new HashMap<String, Properties>();
public Properties getDestinationProperties(String destinationName) {
try {
Properties p = secureDBStorage.get(destinationName);
if(p!=null) {
if(p.isEmpty())
throw new DataProviderException(DataProviderException.Reason.INVALID_CONFIGURATION, "destination configuration is incorrect", null);
return p;
}
return null;
} catch(RuntimeException re) {
throw new DataProviderException(DataProviderException.Reason.INTERNAL_ERROR, re);
}
}
public void setDestinationDataEventListener(DestinationDataEventListener eventListener) {
this.eL = eventListener;
}
public boolean supportsEvents() {
return true;
}
public void changeProperties(String destName, Properties properties) {
synchronized(secureDBStorage) {
if(properties==null) {
if(secureDBStorage.remove(destName)!=null)
eL.deleted(destName);
} else {
secureDBStorage.put(destName, properties);
eL.updated(destName); // create or updated
}
}
}
}
public ArrayList<String> executeSAPCall(Properties connectProperties, ArrayList<String> partnumbers) throws Exception {
String destName = "ABAP_AS";
SAPDAO sapDAO = new SAPDAO();
ArrayList<MaterialBean> searchResults = new ArrayList<MaterialBean>();
MyDestinationDataProvider myProvider = new MyDestinationDataProvider();
boolean destinationDataProviderRegistered = com.sap.conn.jco.ext.Environment.isDestinationDataProviderRegistered();
JCoDestination dest;
try {
if (!destinationDataProviderRegistered) {
com.sap.conn.jco.ext.Environment.registerDestinationDataProvider(myProvider);
myProvider.changeProperties(destName, connectProperties);
}
} catch(IllegalStateException providerAlreadyRegisteredException) {
logger.error("executeSAPCall: providerAlreadyRegisteredException!");
}
try {
dest = JCoDestinationManager.getDestination(destName);
searchResults = sapDAO.searchSAP(dest, partnumbers);
} catch(JCoException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return searchResults;
}
}
If the answer is that I should not need to implement another CustomDestinationDataProvider for my second application, what other considerations do I need to keep in mind?
You can only register one DestinationDataProvider so the one you set must be able to handle both (or more) different connections. In order to do this, you need unique names for each connection, i.e. destName can't be the fixed value ABAP_AS, you need to create one for each connection.
Your current implementation of the provider looks good for me, but your method when calling the RFC is mixing the creation of the connection and the actual RFC-calling too much in my eyes. IMHO you should separate the former into its own method, so you can call it from other parts of your application to e.g. do other things than RFC-calling.
I've figured it out! I discovered two different ways to implement CustomDestinationDataProvider so that I could use multiple destinations.
Something that I did that helped out with both of my different solutions was change out the method in CustomDestinationDataProvider that instantiates the MyDestinationDataProvider inner class so that instead of returning ArrayList, it returns JCoDestination. I changed the name of this method from executeSAPCall to getDestination.
The first way that I discovered that allowed me to use multiple destinations, successfully changing out destinations, was to introduce a class variable for MyDestinationDataProvider so that I could keep my instantiated version. Please note that for this solution, the CustomDestinationDataProvider class is still embedded within my java application code.
I found that this solution only worked for one application. I was not able to use this mechanism in multiple applications on the same tomcat server, but at least I was finally able to successfully switch destinations. Here is the code for CustomDestinationDataProvider.java for this first solution:
public class CustomDestinationDataProvider {
private MyDestinationDataProvider gProvider; // class version of MyDestinationDataProvider
public class MyDestinationDataProvider implements DestinationDataProvider {
private DestinationDataEventListener eL;
private HashMap<String, Properties> secureDBStorage = new HashMap<String, Properties>();
public Properties getDestinationProperties(String destinationName) {
try {
Properties p = secureDBStorage.get(destinationName);
if(p!=null) {
if(p.isEmpty())
throw new DataProviderException(DataProviderException.Reason.INVALID_CONFIGURATION, "destination configuration is incorrect", null);
return p;
}
return null;
} catch(RuntimeException re) {
System.out.println("getDestinationProperties: Exception detected!!! message = " + re.getMessage());
throw new DataProviderException(DataProviderException.Reason.INTERNAL_ERROR, re);
}
}
public void setDestinationDataEventListener(DestinationDataEventListener eventListener) {
this.eL = eventListener;
}
public boolean supportsEvents() {
return true;
}
public void changeProperties(String destName, Properties properties) {
synchronized(secureDBStorage) {
if(properties==null) {
if(secureDBStorage.remove(destName)!=null) {
eL.deleted(destName);
}
} else {
secureDBStorage.put(destName, properties);
eL.updated(destName); // create or updated
}
}
}
}
public JCoDestination getDestination(String destName, Properties connectProperties) {
MyDestinationDataProvider myProvider = new MyDestinationDataProvider();
boolean destinationDataProviderRegistered = com.sap.conn.jco.ext.Environment.isDestinationDataProviderRegistered();
if (!destinationDataProviderRegistered) {
try {
com.sap.conn.jco.ext.Environment.registerDestinationDataProvider(myProvider);
gProvider = myProvider; // save our destination data provider in the class var
} catch(IllegalStateException providerAlreadyRegisteredException) {
throw new Error(providerAlreadyRegisteredException);
}
} else {
myProvider = gProvider; // get the destination data provider from the class var.
}
myProvider.changeProperties(destName, connectProperties);
JCoDestination dest = null;
try {
dest = JCoDestinationManager.getDestination(destName);
} catch(JCoException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
}
return dest;
}
}
This is the code in my servlet class that I use to instantiate and call CustomDestinationDataProvider within my application code:
CustomDestinationDataProvider cddp = new CustomDestinationDataProvider();
SAPDAO sapDAO = new SAPDAO();
Properties p1 = getProperties("SAPSystem01");
Properties p2 = getProperties("SAPSystem02");
try {
JCoDestination dest = cddp.getDestination("SAP_R3_USERID_01", p1); // establish the first destination
sapDAO.searchEmployees(dest, searchCriteria); // call the first BAPI
dest = cddp.getDestination("SAP_R3_USERID_02", p2); // establish the second destination
sapDAO.searchAvailability(dest); // call the second BAPI
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Again, this solution only works within one application. If you implement this code directly into more than one application, the first app that calls this code gets the resource and the other one will error out.
The second solution that I came up with allows multiple java applications to use the CustomDestinationDataProvider class at the same time. I broke the CustomDestinationDataProvider class out of my application code and created a separate java spring application for it (not a web application) for the purpose of creating a jar. I then transformed the MyDestinationDataProvider inner class into a singleton. Here's the code for the singleton version of CustomDestinationDataProvider:
public class CustomDestinationDataProvider {
public static class MyDestinationDataProvider implements DestinationDataProvider {
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// The following lines convert MyDestinationDataProvider into a singleton. Notice
// that the MyDestinationDataProvider class has now been declared as static.
private static MyDestinationDataProvider myDestinationDataProvider = null;
private MyDestinationDataProvider() {
}
public static MyDestinationDataProvider getInstance() {
if (myDestinationDataProvider == null) {
myDestinationDataProvider = new MyDestinationDataProvider();
}
return myDestinationDataProvider;
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
private DestinationDataEventListener eL;
private HashMap<String, Properties> secureDBStorage = new HashMap<String, Properties>();
public Properties getDestinationProperties(String destinationName) {
try {
Properties p = secureDBStorage.get(destinationName);
if(p!=null) {
if(p.isEmpty())
throw new DataProviderException(DataProviderException.Reason.INVALID_CONFIGURATION, "destination configuration is incorrect", null);
return p;
}
return null;
} catch(RuntimeException re) {
throw new DataProviderException(DataProviderException.Reason.INTERNAL_ERROR, re);
}
}
public void setDestinationDataEventListener(DestinationDataEventListener eventListener) {
this.eL = eventListener;
}
public boolean supportsEvents() {
return true;
}
public void changeProperties(String destName, Properties properties) {
synchronized(secureDBStorage) {
if(properties==null) {
if(secureDBStorage.remove(destName)!=null) {
eL.deleted(destName);
}
} else {
secureDBStorage.put(destName, properties);
eL.updated(destName); // create or updated
}
}
}
}
public JCoDestination getDestination(String destName, Properties connectProperties) throws Exception {
MyDestinationDataProvider myProvider = MyDestinationDataProvider.getInstance();
boolean destinationDataProviderRegistered = com.sap.conn.jco.ext.Environment.isDestinationDataProviderRegistered();
if (!destinationDataProviderRegistered) {
try {
com.sap.conn.jco.ext.Environment.registerDestinationDataProvider(myProvider);
} catch(IllegalStateException providerAlreadyRegisteredException) {
throw new Error(providerAlreadyRegisteredException);
}
}
myProvider.changeProperties(destName, connectProperties);
JCoDestination dest = null;
try {
dest = JCoDestinationManager.getDestination(destName);
} catch(JCoException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
throw ex;
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
throw ex;
}
return dest;
}
}
After putting this code into the jar file application and creating the jar file (I call it JCOConnector.jar), I put the jar file on the shared library classpath of my tomcat server and restarted the tomcat server. In my case, this was /opt/tomcat/shared/lib. Check your /opt/tomcat/conf/catalina.properties file for the shared.loader line for the location of your shared library classpath. Mine looks like this:
shared.loader=\
${catalina.home}/shared/lib\*.jar,${catalina.home}/shared/lib
I also put a copy of this jar file in the "C:\Users\userid\Documents\jars" folder on my workstation so that the test application code could see the code in the jar and compile. I then referenced this copy of the jar file in my pom.xml file in both of my test applications:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
<artifactId>jcoconnector</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>C:\Users\userid\Documents\jars\JCOConnector.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
After adding this to the pom.xml file, I right clicked on each project, selected Maven -> Update Project..., and I then right clicked again on each project and selected 'Refresh'. Something very important that I learned was to not add a copy of JCOConnector.jar directly to either of my test projects. The reason for this is because I want the code from the jar file in /opt/tomcat/shared/lib/JCOConnector.jar to be used. I then built and deployed each of my test apps to the tomcat server.
The code that calls my JCOConnector.jar shared library in my first test application looks like this:
CustomDestinationDataProvider cddp = new CustomDestinationDataProvider();
JCoDestination dest = null;
SAPDAO sapDAO = new SAPDAO();
Properties p1 = getProperties("SAPSystem01");
try {
dest = cddp.getDestination("SAP_R3_USERID_01", p1);
sapDAO.searchEmployees(dest);
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
The code in my second test application that calls my JCOConnector.jar shared library looks like this:
CustomDestinationDataProvider cddp = new CustomDestinationDataProvider();
JCoDestination dest = null;
SAPDAO sapDAO = new SAPDAO();
Properties p2 = getProperties("SAPSystem02");
try {
dest = cddp.getDestination("SAP_R3_USERID_02", p2);
sapDAO.searchAvailability(dest);
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
I know that I've left out a lot of the steps involved in first getting the SAP JCO 3 library installed on your workstation and server. I do hope that this helps out at least one other person of getting over the hill of trying to get multiple spring mvc java spplications talking to SAP on the same server.

Get a specific service implementation based on a parameter

In my Sling app I have data presenting documents, with pages, and content nodes. We mostly server those documents as HTML, but now I would like to have a servlet to serve these documents as PDF and PPT.
Basically, I thought about implementing the factory pattern : in my servlet, dependending on the extension of the request (pdf or ppt), I would get from a DocumentBuilderFactory, the proper DocumentBuilder implementation, either PdfDocumentBuilder or PptDocumentBuilder.
So first I had this:
public class PlanExportBuilderFactory {
public PlanExportBuilder getBuilder(String type) {
PlanExportBuilder builder = null;
switch (type) {
case "pdf":
builder = new PdfPlanExportBuilder();
break;
default:
logger.error("Unsupported plan export builder, type: " + type);
}
return builder;
}
}
In the servlet:
#Component(metatype = false)
#Service(Servlet.class)
#Properties({
#Property(name = "sling.servlet.resourceTypes", value = "myApp/document"),
#Property(name = "sling.servlet.extensions", value = { "ppt", "pdf" }),
#Property(name = "sling.servlet.methods", value = "GET")
})
public class PlanExportServlet extends SlingSafeMethodsServlet {
#Reference
PlanExportBuilderFactory builderFactory;
#Override
protected void doGet(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
Resource resource = request.getResource();
PlanExportBuilder builder = builderFactory.getBuilder(request.getRequestPathInfo().getExtension());
}
}
But the problem is that in the builder I would like to reference other services to access Sling resources, and with this solution, they're not bound.
I looked at Services Factory with OSGi but from what I've understood, you use them to configure differently the same implementation of a service.
Then I found that you can get a specific implementation by naming it, or use a property and a filter.
So I've ended up with this:
public class PlanExportBuilderFactory {
#Reference(target = "(builderType=pdf)")
PlanExportBuilder pdfPlanExportBuilder;
public PlanExportBuilder getBuilder(String type) {
PlanExportBuilder builder = null;
switch (type) {
case "pdf":
return pdfPlanExportBuilder;
default:
logger.error("Unsupported plan export builder, type: " + type);
}
return builder;
}
}
The builder defining a "builderType" property :
// AbstractPlanExportBuilder implements PlanExportBuilder interface
#Component
#Service(value=PlanExportBuilder.class)
public class PdfPlanExportBuilder extends AbstractPlanExportBuilder {
#Property(name="builderType", value="pdf")
public PdfPlanExportBuilder() {
planDocument = new PdfPlanDocument();
}
}
I would like to know if it's a good way to retrieve my PDF builder implementation regarding OSGi good practices.
EDIT 1
From Peter's answer I've tried to add multiple references but with Felix it doesn't seem to work:
#Reference(name = "planExportBuilder", cardinality = ReferenceCardinality.MANDATORY_MULTIPLE, policy = ReferencePolicy.DYNAMIC)
private Map<String, PlanExportBuilder> builders = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, PlanExportBuilder>();
protected final void bindPlanExportBuilder(PlanExportBuilder b, Map<String, Object> props) {
final String type = PropertiesUtil.toString(props.get("type"), null);
if (type != null) {
this.builders.put((String) props.get("type"), b);
}
}
protected final void unbindPlanExportBuilder(final PlanExportBuilder b, Map<String, Object> props) {
final String type = PropertiesUtil.toString(props.get("type"), null);
if (type != null) {
this.builders.remove(type);
}
}
I get these errors :
#Reference(builders) : Missing method bind for reference planExportBuilder
#Reference(builders) : Something went wrong: false - true - MANDATORY_MULTIPLE
#Reference(builders) : Missing method unbind for reference planExportBuilder
The Felix documentation here http://felix.apache.org/documentation/subprojects/apache-felix-maven-scr-plugin/scr-annotations.html#reference says for the bind method:
The default value is the name created by appending the reference name to the string bind. The method must be declared public or protected and take single argument which is declared with the service interface type
So according to this, I understand it cannot work with Felix, as I'm trying to pass two arguments. However, I found an example here that seems to match what you've suggested but I cannot make it work: https://github.com/Adobe-Consulting-Services/acs-aem-samples/blob/master/bundle/src/main/java/com/adobe/acs/samples/services/impl/SampleMultiReferenceServiceImpl.java
EDIT 2
Just had to move the reference above the class to make it work:
#References({
#Reference(
name = "planExportBuilder",
referenceInterface = PlanExportBuilder.class,
policy = ReferencePolicy.DYNAMIC,
cardinality = ReferenceCardinality.OPTIONAL_MULTIPLE)
})
public class PlanExportServlet extends SlingSafeMethodsServlet {
Factories are evil :-) Main reason is of course the yucky class loading hacks that are usually used but also because they tend to have global knowledge. In general, you want to be able to add a bundle with a new DocumentBuilder and then that type should become available.
A more OSGi oriented solution is therefore to use service properties. This could look like:
#Component( property=HTTP_WHITEBOARD_FILTER_REGEX+"=/as")
public class DocumentServlet {
final Map<String,DocBuilder> builders = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
public void doGet( HttpServletRequest rq, HttpServletResponse rsp )
throws IOException, ServletException {
InputStream in = getInputStream( rq.getPathInfo() );
if ( in == null )
....
String type = toType( rq.getPathInfo(), rq.getParameter("type") );
DocBuilder docbuilder = builders.get( type );
if ( docbuilder == null)
....
docbuilder.convert( type, in, rsp.getOutputStream() );
}
#Reference( cardinality=MULTIPLE, policy=DYNAMIC )
void addDocBuilder( DocBuilder db, Map<String,Object> props ) {
docbuilders.put(props.get("type"), db );
}
void removeDocBuilder(Map<String,Object> props ) {
docbuilders.remove(props.get("type"));
}
}
A DocBuilder could look like:
#Component( property = "type=ppt-pdf" )
public class PowerPointToPdf implements DocBuilder {
...
}

How to externalize the queries to xml files using spring

I am using spring and their JDBC template to do read/write operations to the database. I am facing a problem in my reporting module that i have to frequently change the query sqls to cater to frequent changes.
Though using spring jdbc ORM, is there a way to externalize my query parameters such that i just change it in the XML & restart and there is no need to rebuild my source again for deployment. Any approach ORM (preferred) or simple Sql will do.
As of now i have to change the query again and again ,rebuild the source and deploy.
I am not sure if Spring provides some out of the box solutions to implement what you want. But here is one way to get it done, which i had implemented ones. So i will try to reduce some hardwork for you.
You might need to implement a utility to load from resources xml file. Something like this.
public final class LoadFromResourceFileUtils {
public static String loadQuery(final String libraryPath,
final String queryName) {
final InputStream is = StreamUtils
.streamFromClasspathResource(libraryPath);
if (is == null) {
throw new RuntimeException(String.format(
"The SQL Libary %s could not be found.", libraryPath));
}
final Document doc = XMLParseUtils.parse(is);
final Element qryElem = (Element) doc.selectSingleNode(String.format(
"SQLQueries/SQLQuery[#name='%s']", queryName));
final String ret = qryElem == null ? null : qryElem.getText();
return ret;
}
}
You would need to store your queries in an XML say queries.xml and keep it in your classpath, for e.g
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SQLQueries>
<SQLQuery name="myQuery">
<![CDATA[
your query
]]>
</SQLQuery>
</SQLQueries>
And in your DAO you can do this to get the query
String query = LoadFromResourceFileUtils.loadQuery(
"queries.xml", "myQuery");
XMLParseUtils and StreamUtils for your reference
public final class XMLParseUtils {
public static Document parse(final InputStream inStream) {
Document ret = null;
try {
if (inStream == null) {
throw new RuntimeException(
"XML Input Stream for parsing is null");
}
final SAXReader saxReader = new SAXReader();
ret = saxReader.read(inStream);
} catch (final DocumentException exc) {
throw new RuntimeException("XML Parsing error", exc);
}
return ret;
}
}
public final class StreamUtils {
public static InputStream streamFromClasspathResource(
final String resourceClassPath) {
final Class<StreamUtils> clazz = StreamUtils.class;
final ClassLoader clLoader = clazz.getClassLoader();
final InputStream inStream = clLoader
.getResourceAsStream(resourceClassPath);
if (inStream == null) {
if(LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()){
LOGGER.debug(String.format("Resource %s NOT FOUND.",
resourceClassPath));
}
}
return inStream;
}
}

Template variables with ControllerLinkBuilder

I want my response to include this:
"keyMaps":{
"href":"http://localhost/api/keyMaps{/keyMapId}",
"templated":true
}
That's easy enough to achieve:
add(new Link("http://localhost/api/keyMaps{/keyMapId}", "keyMaps"));
But, of course, I'd rather use the ControllerLinkBuilder, like this:
add(linkTo(methodOn(KeyMapController.class).getKeyMap("{keyMapId}")).withRel("keyMaps"));
The problem is that by the time the variable "{keyMapId}" reaches the UriTemplate constructor, it's been included in an encoded URL:
http://localhost/api/keyMaps/%7BkeyMapId%7D
So UriTemplate's constructor doesn't recognise it as containing a variable.
How can I persuade ControllerLinkBuilder that I want to use template variables?
It looks to me like the current state of Spring-HATEOAS doesn't allow this via the ControllerLinkBuilder (I'd very much like to be proven wrong), so I have implemented this myself using the following classes for templating query parameters:
public class TemplatedLinkBuilder {
private static final TemplatedLinkBuilderFactory FACTORY = new TemplatedLinkBuilderFactory();
public static final String ENCODED_LEFT_BRACE = "%7B";
public static final String ENCODED_RIGHT_BRACE = "%7D";
private UriComponentsBuilder uriComponentsBuilder;
TemplatedLinkBuilder(UriComponentsBuilder builder) {
uriComponentsBuilder = builder;
}
public static TemplatedLinkBuilder linkTo(Object invocationValue) {
return FACTORY.linkTo(invocationValue);
}
public static <T> T methodOn(Class<T> controller, Object... parameters) {
return DummyInvocationUtils.methodOn(controller, parameters);
}
public Link withRel(String rel) {
return new Link(replaceTemplateMarkers(uriComponentsBuilder.build().toString()), rel);
}
public Link withSelfRel() {
return withRel(Link.REL_SELF);
}
private String replaceTemplateMarkers(String encodedUri) {
return encodedUri.replaceAll(ENCODED_LEFT_BRACE, "{").replaceAll(ENCODED_RIGHT_BRACE, "}");
}
}
and
public class TemplatedLinkBuilderFactory {
private final ControllerLinkBuilderFactory controllerLinkBuilderFactory;
public TemplatedLinkBuilderFactory() {
this.controllerLinkBuilderFactory = new ControllerLinkBuilderFactory();
}
public TemplatedLinkBuilder linkTo(Object invocationValue) {
ControllerLinkBuilder controllerLinkBuilder = controllerLinkBuilderFactory.linkTo(invocationValue);
UriComponentsBuilder uriComponentsBuilder = controllerLinkBuilder.toUriComponentsBuilder();
Assert.isInstanceOf(DummyInvocationUtils.LastInvocationAware.class, invocationValue);
DummyInvocationUtils.LastInvocationAware invocations = (DummyInvocationUtils.LastInvocationAware) invocationValue;
DummyInvocationUtils.MethodInvocation invocation = invocations.getLastInvocation();
Object[] arguments = invocation.getArguments();
MethodParameters parameters = new MethodParameters(invocation.getMethod());
for (MethodParameter requestParameter : parameters.getParametersWith(RequestParam.class)) {
Object value = arguments[requestParameter.getParameterIndex()];
if (value == null) {
uriComponentsBuilder.queryParam(requestParameter.getParameterName(), "{" + requestParameter.getParameterName() + "}");
}
}
return new TemplatedLinkBuilder(uriComponentsBuilder);
}
}
Which embeds the normal ControllerLinkBuilder and then uses similar logic to parse for #RequestParam annotated parameters that are null and add these on to the query parameters. Also, our client resuses these templated URIs to perform further requests to the server. To achieve this and not need to worry about stripping out the unused templated params, I have to perform the reverse operation (swapping {params} with null), which I'm doing using a custom Spring RequestParamMethodArgumentResolver as follows
public class TemplatedRequestParamResolver extends RequestParamMethodArgumentResolver {
public TemplatedRequestParamResolver() {
super(false);
}
#Override
protected Object resolveName(String name, MethodParameter parameter, NativeWebRequest webRequest) throws Exception {
Object value = super.resolveName(name, parameter, webRequest);
if (value instanceof Object[]) {
Object[] valueAsCollection = (Object[])value;
List<Object> resultList = new LinkedList<Object>();
for (Object collectionEntry : valueAsCollection) {
if (nullifyTemplatedValue(collectionEntry) != null) {
resultList.add(collectionEntry);
}
}
if (resultList.isEmpty()) {
value = null;
} else {
value = resultList.toArray();
}
} else{
value = nullifyTemplatedValue(value);
}
return value;
}
private Object nullifyTemplatedValue(Object value) {
if (value != null && value.toString().startsWith("{") && value.toString().endsWith("}")) {
value = null;
}
return value;
}
}
Also this needs to replace the existing RequestParamMethodArgumentResolver which I do with:
#Configuration
public class ConfigureTemplatedRequestParamResolver {
private #Autowired RequestMappingHandlerAdapter adapter;
#PostConstruct
public void replaceArgumentMethodHandlers() {
List<HandlerMethodArgumentResolver> argumentResolvers = new ArrayList<HandlerMethodArgumentResolver>(adapter.getArgumentResolvers());
for (int cursor = 0; cursor < argumentResolvers.size(); ++cursor) {
HandlerMethodArgumentResolver handlerMethodArgumentResolver = argumentResolvers.get(cursor);
if (handlerMethodArgumentResolver instanceof RequestParamMethodArgumentResolver) {
argumentResolvers.remove(cursor);
argumentResolvers.add(cursor, new TemplatedRequestParamResolver());
break;
}
}
adapter.setArgumentResolvers(argumentResolvers);
}
}
Unfortunately, although { and } are valid characters in a templated URI, they are not valid in a URI, which may be a problem for your client code depending on how strict it is. I'd much prefer a neater solution built into Spring-HATEOAS!
With latest versions of spring-hateoas you can do the following:
UriComponents uriComponents = UriComponentsBuilder.fromUri(linkBuilder.toUri()).build();
UriTemplate template = new UriTemplate(uriComponents.toUriString())
.with("keyMapId", TemplateVariable.SEGMENT);
will give you: http://localhost:8080/bla{/keyMapId}",
Starting with this commit:
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-hateoas/commit/2daf8aabfb78b6767bf27ac3e473832c872302c7
You can now pass null where path variable is expected. It works for me, without workarounds.
resource.add(linkTo(methodOn(UsersController.class).someMethod(null)).withRel("someMethod"));
And the result:
"someMethod": {
"href": "http://localhost:8080/api/v1/users/{userId}",
"templated": true
},
Also check related issues: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-hateoas/issues/545
We've run into the same problem. General workaround is we have our own LinkBuilder class with a bunch of static helpers. Templated ones look like this:
public static Link linkToSubcategoriesTemplated(String categoryId){
return new Link(
new UriTemplate(
linkTo(methodOn(CategoryController.class).subcategories(null, null, categoryId))
.toUriComponentsBuilder().build().toUriString(),
// register it as variable
getBaseTemplateVariables()
),
REL_SUBCATEGORIES
);
}
private static TemplateVariables getBaseTemplateVariables() {
return new TemplateVariables(
new TemplateVariable("page", TemplateVariable.VariableType.REQUEST_PARAM),
new TemplateVariable("sort", TemplateVariable.VariableType.REQUEST_PARAM),
new TemplateVariable("size", TemplateVariable.VariableType.REQUEST_PARAM)
);
}
This is for exposing the parameters of a controller response of a PagedResource.
then in the controllers we call this an append a withRel as needed.
According to this issue comment, this will be addressed in an upcoming release of spring-hateoas.
For now, there's a drop-in replacement for ControllerLinkBuilder available from de.escalon.hypermedia:spring-hateoas-ext in Maven Central.
I can now do this:
import static de.escalon.hypermedia.spring.AffordanceBuilder.*
...
add(linkTo(methodOn(KeyMapController.class).getKeyMap(null)).withRel("keyMaps"));
I pass in null as the parameter value to indicate I want to use a template variable. The name of the variable is automatically pulled from the controller.
I needed to include a link with template variables in the root of a spring data rest application, to get access via traverson to an oauth2 token. This is working fine, maybe useful:
#Component
class RepositoryLinksResourceProcessor implements ResourceProcessor<RepositoryLinksResource> {
#Override
RepositoryLinksResource process(RepositoryLinksResource resource) {
UriTemplate uriTemplate = new UriTemplate(
ControllerLinkBuilder.
linkTo(
TokenEndpoint,
TokenEndpoint.getDeclaredMethod("postAccessToken", java.security.Principal, Map )).
toUriComponentsBuilder().
build().
toString(),
new TemplateVariables([
new TemplateVariable("username", TemplateVariable.VariableType.REQUEST_PARAM),
new TemplateVariable("password", TemplateVariable.VariableType.REQUEST_PARAM),
new TemplateVariable("clientId", TemplateVariable.VariableType.REQUEST_PARAM),
new TemplateVariable("clientSecret", TemplateVariable.VariableType.REQUEST_PARAM)
])
)
resource.add(
new Link( uriTemplate,
"token"
)
)
return resource
}
}
Based on the previous comments I have implemented a generic helper method (against spring-hateoas-0.20.0) as a "temporary" workaround. The implementation does consider only RequestParameters and is far from being optimized or well tested. It might come handy to some other poor soul traveling down the same rabbit hole though:
public static Link getTemplatedLink(final Method m, final String rel) {
DefaultParameterNameDiscoverer disco = new DefaultParameterNameDiscoverer();
ControllerLinkBuilder builder = ControllerLinkBuilder.linkTo(m.getDeclaringClass(), m);
UriTemplate uriTemplate = new UriTemplate(UriComponentsBuilder.fromUri(builder.toUri()).build().toUriString());
Annotation[][] parameterAnnotations = m.getParameterAnnotations();
int param = 0;
for (Annotation[] parameterAnnotation : parameterAnnotations) {
for (Annotation annotation : parameterAnnotation) {
if (annotation.annotationType().equals(RequestParam.class)) {
RequestParam rpa = (RequestParam) annotation;
String parameterName = rpa.name();
if (StringUtils.isEmpty(parameterName)) parameterName = disco.getParameterNames(m)[param];
uriTemplate = uriTemplate.with(parameterName, TemplateVariable.VariableType.REQUEST_PARAM);
}
}
param++;
}
return new Link(uriTemplate, rel);
}

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