Reactor Netty

Reactor Netty offers non-blocking and backpressure-ready TCP/HTTP/UDP clients & servers based on Netty framework.

Getting it

Reactor Netty requires Java 8 or + to run.

With Gradle from repo.spring.io or Maven Central repositories (stable releases only):

    repositories {
      //maven { url 'https://repo.spring.io/snapshot' }
      maven { url 'https://repo.spring.io/milestone' }
      mavenCentral()
    }

    dependencies {
      //compile "io.projectreactor.netty:reactor-netty:0.8.4.BUILD-SNAPSHOT"
      compile "io.projectreactor.netty:reactor-netty:0.8.3.RELEASE"
    }

See the Reactor Core reference documentation for more information on getting it (eg. using Maven, or on how to get milestones and snapshots).

Getting Started

New to Reactor Netty? Check this Reactor Netty Workshop

Here is a very simple HTTP server and the corresponding HTTP client example

HttpServer.create()   // Prepares an HTTP server ready for configuration
          .port(0)    // Configures the port number as zero, this will let the system pick up
                      // an ephemeral port when binding the server
          .route(routes ->
                      // The server will respond only on POST requests
                      // where the path starts with /test and then there is path parameter
                  routes.post("/test/{param}", (request, response) ->
                          response.sendString(request.receive()
                                                     .asString()
                                                     .map(s -> s + ' ' + request.param("param") + '!')
                                                     .log("http-server"))))
          .bindNow(); // Starts the server in a blocking fashion, and waits for it to finish its initialization

HttpClient.create()             // Prepares an HTTP client ready for configuration
          .port(server.port())  // Obtains the server's port and provides it as a port to which this
                                // client should connect
          .post()               // Specifies that POST method will be used
          .uri("/test/World")   // Specifies the path
          .send(ByteBufFlux.fromString(Flux.just("Hello")))  // Sends the request body
          .responseContent()    // Receives the response body
          .aggregate()
          .asString()
          .log("http-client")
          .block();

Getting help

Having trouble with Reactor Netty? We'd like to help!

• If you are upgrading, read the release notes for upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features.
• Ask a question - we monitor stackoverflow.com for questions tagged with reactor-netty. You can also chat with the community on Gitter.
• Report bugs with Reactor Netty at github.com/reactor/reactor-netty/issues.

Reporting Issues

Reactor Netty uses GitHub’s integrated issue tracking system to record bugs and feature requests. If you want to raise an issue, please follow the recommendations below:

• Before you log a bug, please search the issue tracker to see if someone has already reported the problem.
• If the issue doesn't already exist, create a new issue.
• Please provide as much information as possible with the issue report, we like to know the version of Reactor Netty that you are using, as well as your Operating System and JVM version.

Building from Source

You don't need to build from source to use Reactor Netty (binaries in repo.spring.io), but if you want to try out the latest and greatest, Reactor Netty can be easily built with the gradle wrapper. You also need JDK 1.8.

$ git clone https://github.com/reactor/reactor-netty.git
$ cd reactor-netty
$ ./gradlew build

If you want to publish the artifacts to your local Maven repository use:

$ ./gradlew install

Javadoc

https://projectreactor.io/docs/netty/release/api/

Guides

https://violetagg.github.io/reactor-netty-workshop/

License

Reactor Netty is Open Source Software released under the Apache License 2.0

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