Managed Client Example

This example demonstrates a simple usage of Jersey Managed Client feature.

Contents

The mapping of the URI path space is presented in the following table:

In the example, the requests to a public resource deployed on /public/ path are forwarded to an internal resource (deployed on /internal/ path) using injected javax.ws.rs.client.WebTarget instances produced using 2 separate managed clients each of the managed clients using it's own custom configuration.

An access to internal resource methods is guarded by a container request filter (CustomHeaderFilter) which rejects any request that does not contain expected custom header set to an expected value. In the example, the 2 managed clients (used by a public resource to access the methods on the internal resource) are configured with custom configurations, each containing a registration of a custom client request filter that is instructed to append a required custom header and value to every outgoing request. Only with managed client support working properly, the public resource is able to successfully retrieve data from the internal resource.

Running the Example

Run the example as follows:

mvn clean package exec:java

This deploys current example on the local host. You can then access WADL description of the deployed application at http://localhost:8080/managed-client-webapp/application.wadl.

You can access public resource of this application using curl:

curl -v -H "Accept: text/plain" http://localhost:8080/managed-client-webapp/public/a

curl -v -H "Accept: text/plain" http://localhost:8080/managed-client-webapp/public/b

In this example you should see the returned response message body contains “a” or “b” respectively upon successful invocation.

You may also verify that access to internal resource is not possible without including a proper header in the request. First try to access the internal resource without any custom header:

curl -v -H "Accept: text/plain" http://localhost:8080/managed-client-webapp/internal/a

curl -v -H "Accept: text/plain" http://localhost:8080/managed-client-webapp/internal/b

In both cases a HTTP 403 Forbidden. response is returned. Now lets try to access the resource once again, but this time we'll include also the expected custom headers:

curl -v -H "Accept: text/plain" -H "custom-header:a" http://localhost:8080/managed-client-webapp/internal/a

curl -v -H "Accept: text/plain" -H "custom-header:b" http://localhost:8080/managed-client-webapp/internal/b

Finally, you should see the invocation succeeded and the returned response message body contains “a” or “b” respectively.