A library of helpers for developing Vert.x applications on the JVM.

Gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven {
            url 'https://dl.bintray.com/labs2160/vertx-ext'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    // Vert.x "Core" API 
    implementation 'com.labs2160:vertx-ext-core:1.0.0'

    // ...or, Vert.x "RxJava 2" API
    implementation 'com.labs2160:vertx-ext-reactivex:1.0.0'

    // ...or, Vert.x "RxJava 1" API
    implementation 'com.labs2160:vertx-ext-rxjava:1.0.0'
}

• Java 8+
• Kotlin 1.2.x
• Vert.x 3.5.x

• EventBus
• Message
• RoutingContext

The EventBus extensions are designed to promote canonical usage of JSON as a messaging medium, while also reducing the amount of code needed in both multicast and point-to-point messaging scenarios. This is achieved in two ways:

1. Overloaded variations of publishJsonObject() and sendJsonObject() have been introduced, with each variant accepting an arbitrary message object as input. This message is serialized as a JsonObject over the wire. Provided that the message can be (de)serialized as a JsonObject, this alleviates the need for writing and registering custom MessageCodecs.

2. The fully-qualified name of the class of the message supplied to publishJsonObject() and sendJsonObject() is used as the destination address. This alleviates the need for maintaining a separate registry of addresses, while also promoting an event-driven approach to messaging.

The Message extensions are designed to further promote the canonical usage of JSON as a messaging medium.

Use fromJsonObject() to read the body of a Message as a JsonObject.

Use replyAsJsonObject() to reply to a Message with a body serialized as a JsonObject.

The RoutingContext extensions introduce more concise, typesafe ways of composing responses to HTTP requests.

Overloaded variations of respond() can be used to compose and end a response with:

• [required] a status represented by io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseStatus
• [optional] an arbitrary body to be serialized as JSON

By default, bodies are serialized as JSON without any formatting.

respondPretty() is provided to write JSON bodies as in a human readable format. (No formatting is applied by default).

If using the Vert.x API Contract to perform request validation, params() can be used to get the RequestParameters associated with the current request.