io.vertx.ext.web

Interface RoutingContext

public interface RoutingContext

Represents the context for the handling of a request in Vert.x-Web.

A new instance is created for each HTTP request that is received in the Handler.handle(Object) of the router.

The same instance is passed to any matching request or failure handlers during the routing of the request or failure.

The context provides access to the HttpServerRequest and HttpServerResponse and allows you to maintain arbitrary data that lives for the lifetime of the context. Contexts are discarded once they have been routed to the handler for the request.

The context also provides access to the Session, cookies and body for the request, given the correct handlers in the application.

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Author:

Tim Fox

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
default List<LanguageHeader>	acceptableLanguages() Returns the languages for the current request.
int	addBodyEndHandler(Handler<Void> handler) Provides a handler that will be called after the last part of the body is written to the wire.
RoutingContext	addCookie(Cookie cookie) Deprecated. Use HttpServerResponse.addCookie(Cookie) Add a cookie. This will be sent back to the client in the response.
default Future<Void>	addEndHandler() Add an end handler for the request/response context.
int	addEndHandler(Handler<AsyncResult<Void>> handler) Add an end handler for the request/response context.
int	addHeadersEndHandler(Handler<Void> handler) Add a handler that will be called just before headers are written to the response.
default RoutingContext	attachment(String filename) Set Content-Disposition get to "attachment" with optional filename mime type.
void	clearUser() Clear the current user object in the context.
int	cookieCount() Deprecated. Use HttpServerRequest.cookieCount()
Map<String,Cookie>	cookieMap() Deprecated. Use HttpServerRequest.cookieMap()
Route	currentRoute()
Map<String,Object>	data()
default Future<Void>	end() Shortcut to the response end.
default Future<Void>	end(Buffer buffer) Shortcut to the response end.
default RoutingContext	end(Buffer buffer, Handler<AsyncResult<Void>> handler) See end(Buffer)
default RoutingContext	end(Handler<AsyncResult<Void>> handler) See end()
default Future<Void>	end(String chunk) Shortcut to the response end.
default RoutingContext	end(String chunk, Handler<AsyncResult<Void>> handler) See end(String)
default RoutingContext	etag(String etag) Set the ETag of a response.
void	fail(int statusCode) Fail the context with the specified status code.
void	fail(int statusCode, Throwable throwable) Fail the context with the specified throwable and the specified the status code.
void	fail(Throwable throwable) Fail the context with the specified throwable and 500 status code.
boolean	failed()
Throwable	failure() If the context is being routed to failure handlers after a failure has been triggered by calling fail(Throwable) then this will return that throwable.
Set<FileUpload>	fileUploads()
<T> T	get(String key) Get some data from the context.
<T> T	get(String key, T defaultValue) Get some data from the context.
String	getAcceptableContentType() If the route specifies produces matches, e.g.
Buffer	getBody()
default JsonObject	getBodyAsJson()
JsonObject	getBodyAsJson(int maxAllowedLength) Gets the current body buffer as a JsonObject.
default JsonArray	getBodyAsJsonArray()
JsonArray	getBodyAsJsonArray(int maxAllowedLength) Gets the current body buffer as a JsonArray.
String	getBodyAsString()
String	getBodyAsString(String encoding) Get the entire HTTP request body as a string, assuming the specified encoding.
Cookie	getCookie(String name) Deprecated. Use HttpServerRequest.getCookie(String) Get the cookie with the specified name.
default boolean	is(String type) Check if the incoming request contains the "Content-Type" get field, and it contains the give mime `type`.
default boolean	isFresh() Check if the request is fresh, aka Last-Modified and/or the ETag still match.
boolean	isSessionAccessed() Whether the session() has been already called or not.
default Future<Void>	json(Object json) Encode an Object to JSON and end the request.
default RoutingContext	json(Object json, Handler<AsyncResult<Void>> handler) See json(Object).
default RoutingContext	lastModified(java.time.Instant instant) Set the Last-Modified date using a Instant.
default RoutingContext	lastModified(String instant) Set the Last-Modified date using a String.
String	mountPoint()
void	next() Tell the router to route this context to the next matching route (if any).
default String	normalisedPath() Deprecated.
String	normalizedPath() Return the normalized path for the request.
ParsedHeaderValues	parsedHeaders() The headers: Accept Accept-Charset Accept-Encoding Accept-Language Content-Type Parsed into ParsedHeaderValue
String	pathParam(String name) Gets the value of a single path parameter
Map<String,String>	pathParams() Returns a map of named parameters as defined in path declaration with their actual values
default LanguageHeader	preferredLanguage() Helper to return the user preferred language.
RoutingContext	put(String key, Object obj) Put some arbitrary data in the context.
List<String>	queryParam(String name) Gets the value of a single query parameter.
MultiMap	queryParams() Returns a map of all query parameters inside the query string The query parameters are lazily decoded: the decoding happens on the first time this method is called.
MultiMap	queryParams(Charset encoding) Always decode the current query string with the given encoding.
default Future<Void>	redirect(String url) Perform a 302 redirect to url.
default RoutingContext	redirect(String url, Handler<AsyncResult<Void>> handler) See redirect(String).
<T> T	remove(String key) Remove some data from the context.
boolean	removeBodyEndHandler(int handlerID) Remove a body end handler
default Cookie	removeCookie(String name) Deprecated. Use HttpServerResponse.removeCookie(String) Expire a cookie, notifying a User Agent to remove it from its cookie jar.
Cookie	removeCookie(String name, boolean invalidate) Deprecated. Use HttpServerResponse.removeCookie(String, boolean) Remove a cookie from the cookie set. If invalidate is true then it will expire a cookie, notifying a User Agent to remove it from its cookie jar.
boolean	removeEndHandler(int handlerID) Remove an end handler
boolean	removeHeadersEndHandler(int handlerID) Remove a headers end handler
HttpServerRequest	request()
void	reroute(HttpMethod method, String path) Restarts the current router with a new method and path.
default void	reroute(String path) Restarts the current router with a new path and reusing the original method.
HttpServerResponse	response()
Session	session() Get the session.
void	setAcceptableContentType(String contentType) Set the acceptable content type.
void	setBody(Buffer body) Set the body.
void	setSession(Session session) Set the session.
void	setUser(User user) Set the user.
int	statusCode() If the context is being routed to failure handlers after a failure has been triggered by calling fail(int) then this will return that status code.
User	user() Get the authenticated user (if any).
Vertx	vertx()

Method Detail

request

HttpServerRequest request()

Returns:

the HTTP request object

response

HttpServerResponse response()

Returns:

the HTTP response object

next

void next()

Tell the router to route this context to the next matching route (if any). This method, if called, does not need to be called during the execution of the handler, it can be called some arbitrary time later, if required.

If next is not called for a handler then the handler should make sure it ends the response or no response will be sent.

fail

void fail(int statusCode)

Fail the context with the specified status code.

This will cause the router to route the context to any matching failure handlers for the request. If no failure handlers match It will trigger the error handler matching the status code. You can define such error handler with Router.errorHandler(int, Handler). If no error handler is not defined, It will send a default failure response with provided status code.

Parameters:

statusCode - the HTTP status code

fail

void fail(Throwable throwable)

Fail the context with the specified throwable and 500 status code.

This will cause the router to route the context to any matching failure handlers for the request. If no failure handlers match It will trigger the error handler matching the status code. You can define such error handler with Router.errorHandler(int, Handler). If no error handler is not defined, It will send a default failure response with 500 status code.

Parameters:

throwable - a throwable representing the failure

fail

void fail(int statusCode,
          Throwable throwable)

Fail the context with the specified throwable and the specified the status code.

This will cause the router to route the context to any matching failure handlers for the request. If no failure handlers match It will trigger the error handler matching the status code. You can define such error handler with Router.errorHandler(int, Handler). If no error handler is not defined, It will send a default failure response with provided status code.

Parameters:

statusCode - the HTTP status code

throwable - a throwable representing the failure

put

RoutingContext put(String key,
                   Object obj)

Put some arbitrary data in the context. This will be available in any handlers that receive the context.

Parameters:

key - the key for the data

obj - the data

Returns:

a reference to this, so the API can be used fluently

get

<T> T get(String key)

Get some data from the context. The data is available in any handlers that receive the context.

Type Parameters:

T - the type of the data

Parameters:

key - the key for the data

Returns:

the data

Throws:

ClassCastException - if the data is not of the expected type

get

<T> T get(String key,
          T defaultValue)

Get some data from the context. The data is available in any handlers that receive the context.

Type Parameters:

T - the type of the data

Parameters:

key - the key for the data

defaultValue - when the underlying data doesn't contain the key this will be the return value.

Returns:

the data

Throws:

ClassCastException - if the data is not of the expected type

remove

<T> T remove(String key)

Remove some data from the context. The data is available in any handlers that receive the context.

Type Parameters:

T - the type of the data

Parameters:

key - the key for the data

Returns:

the previous data associated with the key

Throws:

ClassCastException - if the data is not of the expected type

data

Map<String,Object> data()

Returns:

all the context data as a map

vertx

Vertx vertx()

Returns:

the Vert.x instance associated to the initiating Router for this context

mountPoint

String mountPoint()

Returns:

the mount point for this router. It will be null for a top level router. For a sub-router it will be the path at which the subrouter was mounted.

currentRoute

Route currentRoute()

Returns:

the current route this context is being routed through.

normalisedPath

@Deprecated
default String normalisedPath()

Deprecated.

Use normalizedPath() instead

normalizedPath

String normalizedPath()

Return the normalized path for the request.

The normalized path is where the URI path has been decoded, i.e. any unicode or other illegal URL characters that were encoded in the original URL with `%` will be returned to their original form. E.g. `%20` will revert to a space. Also `+` reverts to a space in a query.

The normalized path will also not contain any `..` character sequences to prevent resources being accessed outside of the permitted area.

It's recommended to always use the normalized path as opposed to HttpServerRequest.path() if accessing server resources requested by a client.

Returns:

the normalized path

getCookie

@Deprecated
Cookie getCookie(String name)

Deprecated. Use HttpServerRequest.getCookie(String) Get the cookie with the specified name.

Parameters:

name - the cookie name

Returns:

the cookie

addCookie

@Deprecated
RoutingContext addCookie(Cookie cookie)

Deprecated. Use HttpServerResponse.addCookie(Cookie) Add a cookie. This will be sent back to the client in the response.

Parameters:

cookie - the cookie

Returns:

a reference to this, so the API can be used fluently

removeCookie

@Deprecated
default Cookie removeCookie(String name)

Deprecated. Use HttpServerResponse.removeCookie(String) Expire a cookie, notifying a User Agent to remove it from its cookie jar.

Parameters:

name - the name of the cookie

Returns:

the cookie, if it existed, or null

removeCookie

@Deprecated
Cookie removeCookie(String name,
                                boolean invalidate)

Deprecated. Use HttpServerResponse.removeCookie(String, boolean) Remove a cookie from the cookie set. If invalidate is true then it will expire a cookie, notifying a User Agent to remove it from its cookie jar.

Parameters:

name - the name of the cookie

Returns:

the cookie, if it existed, or null

cookieCount

@Deprecated
int cookieCount()

Deprecated. Use HttpServerRequest.cookieCount()

Returns:

the number of cookies.

cookieMap

@Deprecated
Map<String,Cookie> cookieMap()

Deprecated. Use HttpServerRequest.cookieMap()

Returns:

a map of all the cookies.

getBodyAsString

String getBodyAsString()

Returns:

the entire HTTP request body as a string, assuming UTF-8 encoding if the request does not provide the content type charset attribute. If a charset is provided in the request that it shall be respected. The context must have first been routed to a BodyHandler for this to be populated.

getBodyAsString

String getBodyAsString(String encoding)

Get the entire HTTP request body as a string, assuming the specified encoding. The context must have first been routed to a BodyHandler for this to be populated.

Parameters:

encoding - the encoding, e.g. "UTF-16"

Returns:

the body

getBodyAsJson

JsonObject getBodyAsJson(int maxAllowedLength)

Gets the current body buffer as a JsonObject. If a positive limit is provided the parsing will only happen if the buffer length is smaller or equal to the limit. Otherwise an IllegalStateException is thrown. When the application is only handling uploads in JSON format, it is recommended to set a limit on BodyHandler.setBodyLimit(long) as this will avoid the upload to be parsed and loaded into the application memory.

Parameters:

maxAllowedLength - if the current buffer length is greater than the limit an IllegalStateException is thrown. This can be used to avoid DDoS attacks on very long JSON payloads that could take over the CPU while attempting to parse the data.

Returns:

Get the entire HTTP request body as a JsonObject. The context must have first been routed to a BodyHandler for this to be populated.
When the body is null or the "null" JSON literal then null is returned.

getBodyAsJsonArray

JsonArray getBodyAsJsonArray(int maxAllowedLength)

Gets the current body buffer as a JsonArray. If a positive limit is provided the parsing will only happen if the buffer length is smaller or equal to the limit. Otherwise an IllegalStateException is thrown. When the application is only handling uploads in JSON format, it is recommended to set a limit on BodyHandler.setBodyLimit(long) as this will avoid the upload to be parsed and loaded into the application memory.

Parameters:

maxAllowedLength - if the current buffer length is greater than the limit an IllegalStateException is thrown. This can be used to avoid DDoS attacks on very long JSON payloads that could take over the CPU while attempting to parse the data.

Returns:

Get the entire HTTP request body as a JsonArray. The context must have first been routed to a BodyHandler for this to be populated.
When the body is null or the "null" JSON literal then null is returned.

getBodyAsJson

default JsonObject getBodyAsJson()

Returns:

Get the entire HTTP request body as a JsonObject. The context must have first been routed to a BodyHandler for this to be populated.
When the body is null or the "null" JSON literal then null is returned.

getBodyAsJsonArray

default JsonArray getBodyAsJsonArray()

Returns:

Get the entire HTTP request body as a JsonArray. The context must have first been routed to a BodyHandler for this to be populated.
When the body is null or the "null" JSON literal then null is returned.

getBody

Buffer getBody()

Returns:

Get the entire HTTP request body as a Buffer. The context must have first been routed to a BodyHandler for this to be populated.

fileUploads

Set<FileUpload> fileUploads()

Returns:

a set of fileuploads (if any) for the request. The context must have first been routed to a BodyHandler for this to work.

session

Session session()

Get the session. The context must have first been routed to a SessionHandler for this to be populated. Sessions live for a browser session, and are maintained by session cookies.

Returns:

the session.

isSessionAccessed

boolean isSessionAccessed()

Whether the session() has been already called or not. This is usually used by the SessionHandler.

Returns:

true if the session has been accessed.

user

User user()

Get the authenticated user (if any). This will usually be injected by an auth handler if authentication if successful.

Returns:

the user, or null if the current user is not authenticated.

failure

Throwable failure()

If the context is being routed to failure handlers after a failure has been triggered by calling fail(Throwable) then this will return that throwable. It can be used by failure handlers to render a response, e.g. create a failure response page.

Returns:

the throwable used when signalling failure

statusCode

int statusCode()

If the context is being routed to failure handlers after a failure has been triggered by calling fail(int) then this will return that status code. It can be used by failure handlers to render a response, e.g. create a failure response page. When the status code has not been set yet (it is undefined) its value will be -1.

Returns:

the status code used when signalling failure

getAcceptableContentType

String getAcceptableContentType()

If the route specifies produces matches, e.g. produces `text/html` and `text/plain`, and the `accept` header matches one or more of these then this returns the most acceptable match.

Returns:

the most acceptable content type.

parsedHeaders

ParsedHeaderValues parsedHeaders()

The headers:

1. Accept
2. Accept-Charset
3. Accept-Encoding
4. Accept-Language
5. Content-Type

Parsed into ParsedHeaderValue

Returns:

A container with the parsed headers.

addHeadersEndHandler

int addHeadersEndHandler(Handler<Void> handler)

Add a handler that will be called just before headers are written to the response. This gives you a hook where you can write any extra headers before the response has been written when it will be too late.

Parameters:

handler - the handler

Returns:

the id of the handler. This can be used if you later want to remove the handler.

removeHeadersEndHandler

boolean removeHeadersEndHandler(int handlerID)

Remove a headers end handler

Parameters:

handlerID - the id as returned from addHeadersEndHandler(Handler).

Returns:

true if the handler existed and was removed, false otherwise

addBodyEndHandler

int addBodyEndHandler(Handler<Void> handler)

Provides a handler that will be called after the last part of the body is written to the wire. The handler is called asynchronously of when the response has been received by the client. This provides a hook allowing you to do more operations once the request has been sent over the wire. Do not use this for resource cleanup as this handler might never get called (e.g. if the connection is reset).

Parameters:

handler - the handler

Returns:

the id of the handler. This can be used if you later want to remove the handler.

removeBodyEndHandler

boolean removeBodyEndHandler(int handlerID)

Remove a body end handler

Parameters:

handlerID - the id as returned from addBodyEndHandler(Handler).

Returns:

true if the handler existed and was removed, false otherwise

addEndHandler

int addEndHandler(Handler<AsyncResult<Void>> handler)

Add an end handler for the request/response context. This will be called when the response is disposed or an exception has been encountered to allow consistent cleanup. The handler is called asynchronously of when the response has been received by the client.

Parameters:

handler - the handler that will be called with either a success or failure result.

Returns:

the id of the handler. This can be used if you later want to remove the handler.

addEndHandler

default Future<Void> addEndHandler()

Add an end handler for the request/response context. This will be called when the response is disposed or an exception has been encountered to allow consistent cleanup. The handler is called asynchronously of when the response has been received by the client.

Returns:

future that will be called with either a success or failure result.

See Also:

addEndHandler(Handler)

removeEndHandler

boolean removeEndHandler(int handlerID)

Remove an end handler

Parameters:

handlerID - the id as returned from addEndHandler(Handler).

Returns:

true if the handler existed and was removed, false otherwise

failed

boolean failed()

Returns:

true if the context is being routed to failure handlers.

setBody

void setBody(Buffer body)

Set the body. Used by the BodyHandler. You will not normally call this method.

Parameters:

body - the body

setSession

void setSession(Session session)

Set the session. Used by the SessionHandler. You will not normally call this method.

Parameters:

session - the session

setUser

void setUser(User user)

Set the user. Usually used by auth handlers to inject a User. You will not normally call this method.

Parameters:

user - the user

clearUser

void clearUser()

Clear the current user object in the context. This usually is used for implementing a log out feature, since the current user is unbounded from the routing context.

setAcceptableContentType

void setAcceptableContentType(String contentType)

Set the acceptable content type. Used by

Parameters:

contentType - the content type

reroute

default void reroute(String path)

Restarts the current router with a new path and reusing the original method. All path parameters are then parsed and available on the params list. Query params will also be allowed and available.

Parameters:

path - the new http path.

reroute

void reroute(HttpMethod method,
             String path)

Restarts the current router with a new method and path. All path parameters are then parsed and available on the params list. Query params will also be allowed and available.

Parameters:

method - the new http request

path - the new http path.

acceptableLanguages

default List<LanguageHeader> acceptableLanguages()

Returns the languages for the current request. The languages are determined from the Accept-Language header and sorted on quality. When 2 or more entries have the same quality then the order used to return the best match is based on the lowest index on the original list. For example if a user has en-US and en-GB with same quality and this order the best match will be en-US because it was declared as first entry by the client.

Returns:

The best matched language for the request

preferredLanguage

default LanguageHeader preferredLanguage()

Helper to return the user preferred language. It is the same action as returning the first element of the acceptable languages.

Returns:

the users preferred locale.

pathParams

Map<String,String> pathParams()

Returns a map of named parameters as defined in path declaration with their actual values

Returns:

the map of named parameters

pathParam

String pathParam(String name)

Gets the value of a single path parameter

Parameters:

name - the name of parameter as defined in path declaration

Returns:

the actual value of the parameter or null if it doesn't exist

queryParams

MultiMap queryParams()

Returns a map of all query parameters inside the query string
The query parameters are lazily decoded: the decoding happens on the first time this method is called. If the query string is invalid it fails the context

Returns:

the multimap of query parameters

queryParams

MultiMap queryParams(Charset encoding)

Always decode the current query string with the given encoding. The decode result is never cached. Callers to this method are expected to cache the result if needed. Usually users should use queryParams(). This method is only useful when the requests without content type (GET requests as an example) expect that query params are in the ASCII format ISO-5559-1.

Parameters:

encoding - a non null character set.

Returns:

the multimap of query parameters

queryParam

List<String> queryParam(String name)

Gets the value of a single query parameter. For more info queryParams()

Parameters:

name - The name of query parameter

Returns:

The list of all parameters matching the parameter name. It returns an empty list if no query parameter with name was found

attachment

default RoutingContext attachment(String filename)

Set Content-Disposition get to "attachment" with optional filename mime type.

Parameters:

filename - the filename for the attachment

redirect

default Future<Void> redirect(String url)

Perform a 302 redirect to url. If a custom 3xx code is already defined, then that one will be preferred.

The string "back" is special-cased to provide Referrer support, when Referrer is not present "/" is used.

Examples:

redirect('back'); redirect('/login'); redirect('http://google.com');

Parameters:

url - the target url

redirect

default RoutingContext redirect(String url,
                                Handler<AsyncResult<Void>> handler)

See redirect(String).

json

default Future<Void> json(Object json)

Encode an Object to JSON and end the request. The method will apply the correct content type to the response, perform the encoding and end.

Parameters:

json - the json

Returns:

a future to handle the end of the request

json

default RoutingContext json(Object json,
                            Handler<AsyncResult<Void>> handler)

See json(Object).

is

default boolean is(String type)

Check if the incoming request contains the "Content-Type" get field, and it contains the give mime `type`. If there is no request body, `false` is returned. If there is no content type, `false` is returned. Otherwise, it returns true if the `type` that matches.

Examples:

// With Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 is("html"); // => true is("text/html"); // => true

// When Content-Type is application/json is("application/json"); // => true is("html"); // => false

Parameters:

type - content type

Returns:

The most close value

isFresh

default boolean isFresh()

Check if the request is fresh, aka Last-Modified and/or the ETag still match.

Returns:

true if content is fresh according to the cache.

etag

default RoutingContext etag(String etag)

Set the ETag of a response. This will normalize the quotes if necessary.

etag('md5hashsum'); etag('"md5hashsum"'); ('W/"123456789"');

Parameters:

etag - the etag value

lastModified

default RoutingContext lastModified(java.time.Instant instant)

Set the Last-Modified date using a Instant.

Parameters:

instant - the last modified instant

lastModified

default RoutingContext lastModified(String instant)

Set the Last-Modified date using a String.

Parameters:

instant - the last modified instant

end

default Future<Void> end(String chunk)

Shortcut to the response end.

Parameters:

chunk - a chunk

Returns:

future

end

default RoutingContext end(String chunk,
                           Handler<AsyncResult<Void>> handler)

See end(String)

end

default Future<Void> end(Buffer buffer)

Shortcut to the response end.

Parameters:

buffer - a chunk

Returns:

future

end

default RoutingContext end(Buffer buffer,
                           Handler<AsyncResult<Void>> handler)

See end(Buffer)

end

default Future<Void> end()

Shortcut to the response end.

Returns:

future

end

default RoutingContext end(Handler<AsyncResult<Void>> handler)

See end()