Very cool... Nice to hear that you got it to work. Thanks, Ruwan
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Coulombe, Greg <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to write back to the group to indicate that the problem > has been resolved: I was correctly configuring axis2 with the > BinaryBuilder/Formatter as follows: > > <messageFormatter contentType="application/octet-stream" > class="org.apache.axis2.format.BinaryFormatter"/> > > ... > > <messageBuilder contentType="application/octet-stream" > class="org.apache.axis2.format.BinaryBuilder"/> > > The problem I was having was that I didn't have any mediators set up for > the incoming binary message. Thus, the output of the binary builder > ("<binary>...</binary") was being passed directly to the response. The > problem was that the content type of the message after it was processed > by the BinaryBuilder was application/xml. Since I didn't have any more > mediators set up, Synapse dutifully forwared that in-memory XML to the > response. Once I added a property mediator that set the content type to > application/octet-stream, the BinaryFormatter was called during the > response process and the binary was output just fine. The final proxy > config that accomplished the pass-through follows: > > <proxy name="binary" transports="http" startOnLoad="true"> > <target> > <endpoint> > <address uri="http://server:8080/"; > format="rest" /> > </endpoint> > <outSequence> > <property action="set" scope="axis2" > name="messageType" value="application/octet-stream"/> > <send/> > </outSequence> > </target> > </proxy> > > --GKC > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Supun Kamburugamuva [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Passing non-XML body content for REST services > > Hi, > How about using org.apache.axis2.format.PlainTextFormatter > and org.apache.axis2.format.PlainTextBuilder? > > Thanks, > Supun.. > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Coulombe, Greg > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Sure. Here is the synapse.xml, axis2.xml is below: > > > > <definitions xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse";> > > <endpoint name="myEndPoint"> > > <address uri="http://localhost:8080/myendpoint"; > > format="rest" /> > > </endpoint> > > > > <proxy name="myProxy" transports="http" startOnLoad="true"> > > <target> > > <inSequence> > > <send> > > <endpoint key="myEndPoint" /> > > </send> > > </inSequence> > > <outSequence> > > <send/> > > </outSequence> > > </target> > > </proxy> > > <sequence name="errorHandler"> > > <log level="full" /> > > </sequence> > > </definitions> > > > > Snippets from axis2.xml: > > > > <messageBuilder contentType="*/*" > > class="org.apache.axis2.format.BinaryBuilder"/> > > ... > > <messageFormatter contentType="*/*" > > class="org.apache.axis2.format.BinaryFormatter"/> > > > > What should I modify to enable plain text, JSON and binary data to > pass > > through without change? > > > > Thanks, > > > > --GKC > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andreas Veithen [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:45 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Passing non-XML body content for REST services > > > > That should be possible. Can you post your synapse.xml file? > > > > Andreas > > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 13:23, Coulombe, > Greg<[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am developing some REST services (using the a 1.3 snapshot build > of > > > synapse) and I'd like to use Synapse to proxy REST service calls > that > > > return (or accept) non-XML content. How do I configure Synapse to > > proxy > > > that content without wrapping it in an XML element? The content > types > > > that I am interested in proxying are JSON and Binary. I have been > > > playing with the Axis2 BinaryFormatter and BinaryBuilder and it > seems > > > close to what I am looking for but not exactly correct: when I call > > GET > > > against a service that returns a content type of > > > application/octet-stream, I get back the binary content but it is > MIME > > > encoded (I think) in a <binary/> element. Is there a way to > configure > > > synapse/axis2 to simply pass that binary data through untouched? > > > Similarly, I would like to do this with plain text and/or JSON data > > too. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Greg Coulombe > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc > http://wso2.org > supunk.blogspot.com > -- Ruwan Linton Technical Lead & Product Manager; WSO2 ESB; http://wso2.org/esb WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org email: [email protected]; cell: +94 77 341 3097 blog: http://ruwansblog.blogspot.com
