Vert.x publish HttpServerRequest to other module - http

Question

if i receive a HttpServerRequest in a Handler, is it somehow possible to publish the request?
I want to implement a small demo website with an index.html and an unknown number of sub sites. At first there should be a main vert.x module, which starts the HttpServer. In this main module it should be possible to add other dependent modules. I will call them submodules now. I don't know how many submodules i will have later, but each submodule should contain the logic to handle the http response for a specific URL (the sub html files). I guess i have to do the same for the WebSocketHandler...
A small example of the code inside the start():
//My Main Module:
vertx.createHttpServer().requestHandler(new Handler<HttpServerRequest>() {
public void handle(HttpServerRequest req) {
vertx.eventBus().publish("HTTP_REQUEST_CONSTANT", req);
}
}).listen(8080);
// My submodule 1
vertx.eventBus().registerHandler("HTTP_REQUEST_CONSTANT", new Handler<HttpServerRequest>() {
#Override
public void handle(HttpServerRequest req) {
if (req.uri().equals("/")) {
req.response();
}
}
});
// Other submodules which handles other URLs
Or any other solutions? I just don't wanna have the logic for sub sites in the main module.
Edit: Or could i call the vertx.createHttpServer() method in each submodule?

Answer 1

I have a similar Vert.x based application and I ended up doing the following:
I have a HttpServerVerticle that is started from the MainVerticle. There I created an HttpServer with several matchers. Each matcher receives a request and forwards it to a dedicated verticle through theEventBus. Upon getting the response from a dedicated verticle it writes the answer to the response.
Here is a code snippet:
RouteMatcher restMatcher = new RouteMatcher();
EventBus eventBus = vertx.eventBus();
HttpServer httpServer = vertx.createHttpServer();
restMatcher.post("/your/url",
r -> {
r.bodyHandler(requestBody -> {
final int length = requestBody.length();
if(length == 0) {
//return bad request
r.response().setStatusCode(HttpResponseStatus.BAD_REQUEST.code());
r.response().end();
return;
}
eventBus.send("your.address.here",
requestBody.getString(0, length),
new Handler<Message<JsonObject>>(){
#Override
public void handle(Message<JsonObject> message) {
//return the response from the other verticle
r.response().setStatusCode(HttpResponseStatus.OK.code());
if (message.body() != null) {
r.response().end(message.body().toString());
}
else{
r.response().end();
}
}
});
});
});
httpServer.requestHandler(restMatcher);
httpServer.listen(yourPort,yourHost);
In the dedicated verticle you register a listener to the address:
vertx.eventBus().registerHandler("your.address.here", this::yourHandlerMethod);
The handler method would look something like the following:
protected void yourHandlerMethod(Message<String> message){
// do your magic, produce an answer
message.reply(answer);
}
This way you separate your logic from your HTTP mappings and can have different pieces of logic in separate verticles using multiple event bus addresses.
Hope this helps.