Wultra Java Core Libraries

This project contains Wultra Java Core classes that are shared across our projects.

RESTful Model

All Wultra projects that use RESTful API to publish their services use common model structure. The core philosophy is following:

1. We use JSON format to transfer the data.
2. We always transfer an object as a request and response. Never an array, string, decimal, boolean or null.
3. The top most object is used for a "transport" information (paging, encryption, status, ...), the actual "business logic" information is embedded in request / response object attribute of the top-most object.

Request

All requests have a following JSON structure:

{
    "requestObject": {
        "_comment": "Request object attributes"
    }
}

To prepare a request with request object in Java, use:

new ObjectRequest(someRequestObject);

Success Response

For a simple OK response, we use following format:

{
    "status": "OK"
}

To prepare a simple success response in Java, use:

new Response();

Success Response With Response Object

For an OK response with a response object, we use following format:

{
    "status": "OK",
    "responseObject": {
        "_comment": "Request object attributes"
    }
}

Note that the response object may be a list of other objects, strings, decimals or booleans:

{
    "status": "OK",
    "responseObject": [
        "_item1",
        "_item2"
    ]
}

To prepare a success response with a response object in Java, use:

new ObjectResponse(someObjectResponse);

Error Response

For an error response, we use following format that includes an error code and message for easier debugging:

{
    "status": "ERROR",
    "responseObject": {
        "code": "SOME_ERROR_CODE",
        "message": "Some message, for debugging purposes"
    }
}

To prepare an error response with an error details in Java, use:

new ErrorResponse("SOME_ERROR_CODE", "Some message, for debugging purposes");

Base Implementation of REST client

Class DefaultRestClient provides a base implementation of a REST client. The client provides an interface for calling HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE.

The example below shows very basic initialization and usage of the REST client without any configuration:

        RestClient restClient = new DefaultRestClient("http://localhost");
        ResponseEntity<String> responseEntity = restClient.get("/api/status", new ParameterizedTypeReference<String>() {});
        String response = responseEntity.getBody();
        HttpHeaders headers = responseEntity.getHeaders();

REST Client Configuration

In order to configure the REST client, you can use the builder interface:

RestClient restClient = DefaultRestClient.builder().baseUrl("http://localhost").build();

The following options are available for the builder:

• baseUrl - base URL for all requests, full URL is expected in request path if baseUrl is not specified
• contentType - content type used for requests (default: APPLICATION_JSON)
• acceptType - accept type used for signalling the response type (default: APPLICATION_JSON)
• proxy - proxy settings (default: proxy is disabled)
  • host - proxy host
  • port - proxy port
  • username - proxy username
  • password - proxy password
• connectionTimeout - connection timeout in milliseconds (default: 5000 ms)
• responseTimeout - Maximum duration allowed between each network-level read operations. (default: no timeout)
• maxIdleTime - ConnectionProvider max idle time. (default: no max idle time)
• maxLifeTime - ConnectionProvider max life time. (default: no max life time)
• keepAliveEnabled - Keep-Alive probe feature flag (default: false)
• keepAliveIdle - Keep-Alive idle time
• keepAliveInterval - Keep-Alive retransmission interval time
• keepAliveCount - Keep-Alive retransmission limit
• acceptInvalidSslCertificate - whether invalid SSL certificate is accepted (default: false)
• maxInMemorySize - maximum in memory request size (default: 1048576 bytes)
• httpBasicAuth - HTTP basic authentication (default: disabled)
  • username - username for HTTP basic authentication
  • password - password for HTTP basic authentication
• httpDigestAuth - HTTP digest authentication (default: disabled)
  • username - username for HTTP digest authentication
  • password - password for HTTP digest authentication
• certificateAuth - certificate authentication (default: disabled)
  • useCustomKeyStore - whether custom keystore should be used for certificate authentication (default: false)
  • keyStoreLocation - resource location of keystore (e.g. file:/path_to_keystore)
  • keyStorePassword - keystore password
  • keyStoreBytes - byte data with keystore (alternative configuration way to keyStoreLocation)
  • keyAlias - key alias for the private key stored inside the keystore
  • keyPassword - password for the private key stored inside the keystore
  • useCustomTrustStore - whether custom truststore should be used for certificate authentication (default: false)
  • trustStoreLocation - resource location of truststore (e.g. file:/path_to_truststore)
  • trustStorePassword - truststore password
  • trustStoreBytes - byte data with truststore (alternative configuration way to trustStoreLocation)
• modules - jackson modules
• jacksonProperties - jackson properties for custom object mapper
  • serialization - Jackson on/off features that affect the way Java objects are serialized.
  • deserialization - Jackson on/off features that affect the way Java objects are deserialized, e.g. FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES=true
• filter - custom ExchangeFilterFunction for applying a filter during communication
• defaultHttpHeaders - custom HttpHeaders to be added to all requests as default HTTP headers
• followRedirectEnabled - whether HTTP redirect responses are followed by the client (default: false)
• simpleLoggingEnabled - whether simple one-line logging of HTTP method, URL and response status code is enabled (default: false)
• logErrorResponsesAsWarnings - whether responses with error status codes are logged on WARN level in simple logging (default: true)

Calling HTTP Methods Using REST Client

Once the rest client is initialized, you can use the following methods. Each method has two variants so that HTTP headers can be specified, if necessary. The following methods are available:

• get - a blocking GET call with a generic response
• getNonBlocking - a non-blocking GET call with a generic response with onSuccess and onError consumers
• getObject - a blocking GET call with ObjectResponse
• post - a blocking POST call with a generic request / response
• postNonBlocking - a non-blocking POST call with a generic request / response with onSuccess and onError consumers
• postObject - a blocking POST call with ObjectRequest / ObjectResponse
• put - a blocking PUT call with a generic request / response
• putNonBlocking - a non-blocking PUT call with a generic request / response with onSuccess and onError consumers
• putObject - a blocking PUT call with ObjectRequest / ObjectResponse
• delete - a blocking DELETE call with a generic response
• deleteNonBlocking - a non-blocking DELETE call with a generic response with onSuccess and onError consumers
• deleteObject - a blocking DELETE call with ObjectResponse
• patch - a blocking PATCH call with a generic request / response
• patchNonBlocking - a non-blocking PATCH call with a generic request / response with onSuccess and onError consumers
• patchObject - a blocking PATCH call with ObjectRequest / ObjectResponse
• head - a blocking HEAD call with a generic request
• headNonBlocking - a non-blocking HEAD call with a generic request with onSuccess and onError consumers
• headObject - a blocking HEAD call with ObjectRequest

The path parameter specified in requests can be either:

• a partial request path, in this case the baseUrl parameter must be configured during initialization
• a full URL, in this case the baseUrl parameter must not be configured during initialization

Sample Usage

The example below shows how to use the Rest Client with ObjectRequest / ObjectResponse classes.

        RestClient restClient = DefaultRestClient.builder()
            .baseUrl("http://localhost:8080/my-app")
            .build();

        // The requestData object contains data object which is serialized and sent to the server
        RequestData requestData = new RequestData(...);
        ObjectRequest<RequestData> objectRequest = new ObjectRequest<RequestData>(requestData);
        try {
            ObjectResponse<ResponseData> objectResponse = restClient.postObject("/api/endpoint", objectRequest, ResponseData.class);
            // The responseData object contains deserialized response received from the server
            ResponseData responseData = objectResponse.getResponseObject();
        } catch (RestClientException ex) {
            if (ex.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST) {
                // handle BAD_REQUEST error
            }
            ...
        }

Error Handling

In case any HTTP error occurs during a blocking HTTP request execution, a RestClientException is thrown with following details:

• statusCode - an HTTP status code
• response - a raw error response
• responseHeaders - response HTTP headers
• errorResponse - a parsed ErrorResponse, only used for the ObjectResponse response type

Non-blocking methods provide an onError consumer for custom error handling.

Simple One-Line Logging

You can enable simple one-line logging using RestClientConfiguration:

config.setSimpleLoggingEnabled(true);

The log messages use INFO and WARN levels based on the status code:

2023-01-31 12:09:14.014  INFO 64851 --- [ctor-http-nio-2] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : RestClient GET https://localhost:49728/api/test/response: 200 OK
2023-01-31 12:09:15.367  WARN 64851 --- [ctor-http-nio-4] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : RestClient POST https://localhost:49728/api/test/error-response: 400 BAD_REQUEST

You can disable logging on WARN level, in this case log messages always use the INFO level:

config.setLogErrorResponsesAsWarnings(false);

Detailed Logging

To enable detailed request / response logging, set level of com.wultra.core.rest.client.base.DefaultRestClient to TRACE.

Request Example

2022-11-25 07:40:37.283 TRACE 53194 --- [ctor-http-nio-2] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : [4400ac35] REGISTERED
2022-11-25 07:40:37.297 TRACE 53194 --- [ctor-http-nio-2] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : [4400ac35] CONNECT: localhost/127.0.0.1:50794
2022-11-25 07:40:37.323 TRACE 53194 --- [ctor-http-nio-2] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : [4400ac35, L:/127.0.0.1:50795 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:50794] ACTIVE
2022-11-25 07:40:37.396 TRACE 53194 --- [ctor-http-nio-2] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : [4400ac35, L:/127.0.0.1:50795 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:50794] READ COMPLETE
2022-11-25 07:40:37.396 TRACE 53194 --- [ctor-http-nio-2] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : [4400ac35, L:/127.0.0.1:50795 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:50794] READ COMPLETE
2022-11-25 07:40:37.436 TRACE 53194 --- [ctor-http-nio-2] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : [4400ac35, L:/127.0.0.1:50795 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:50794] USER_EVENT: SslHandshakeCompletionEvent(SUCCESS)
2022-11-25 07:40:37.466 TRACE 53194 --- [ctor-http-nio-2] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : [4400ac35-1, L:/127.0.0.1:50795 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:50794] WRITE: 212B POST /api/test/object-response HTTP/1.1
user-agent: ReactorNetty/1.0.19
host: localhost:50794
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic dGVzdDp0ZXN0
content-length: 45


2022-11-25 07:40:37.466 TRACE 53194 --- [ctor-http-nio-2] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : [4400ac35-1, L:/127.0.0.1:50795 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:50794] WRITE: 45B {"requestObject":{"request":"1669358437187"}}
2022-11-25 07:40:37.466 TRACE 53194 --- [ctor-http-nio-2] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : [4400ac35-1, L:/127.0.0.1:50795 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:50794] FLUSH
2022-11-25 07:40:37.470 TRACE 53194 --- [ctor-http-nio-2] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : [4400ac35-1, L:/127.0.0.1:50795 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:50794] READ COMPLETE

Response Example

2022-11-25 07:35:07.393 TRACE 53095 --- [tor-http-nio-10] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : [9855567c-1, L:/127.0.0.1:50699 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:50690] READ: 430B HTTP/1.1 200 
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: 0
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains
X-Frame-Options: DENY
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 06:35:06 GMT

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{"status":"OK","responseObject":{"response":"object response"}}

2022-11-25 07:35:07.393 TRACE 53095 --- [tor-http-nio-10] c.w.c.r.client.base.DefaultRestClient    : [9855567c-1, L:/127.0.0.1:50699 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:50690] READ COMPLETE

Wultra Auditing Library

The audit-base project provides auditing functionality for easier investigation of issues. Audit records are stored in a database and can be easily queried. The auditing library also handles removal of old audit records.

The audit library requires one database table audit_log and optionally the second table audit_params for logging detail parameters. The DDL is available for the following databases:

• DDL for MySQL
• DDL for Oracle
• DDL for PostgreSQL

Configuration

The following configuration is required for integration of the auditing library:

• Enable scheduling on the application using @EnableScheduling annotation on class annotated with @SpringBootApplication so that the flush and cleanup functionality can be scheduled.
• Add the com.wultra.core.audit.base package to the @ComponentScan, e.g. @ComponentScan(basePackages = {"...", "com.wultra.core.audit.base"}), so that the annotations used in auditing library can be discovered.
• Configure the spring.application.name property to enable storing application name with audit records.

The following properties can be configured in case the default configuration needs to be changed:

• audit.level - minimum audit level (default: INFO)
• audit.event.queue.size - event queue size in memory (default: 100000)
• audit.storage.type - storage type, reserved for future use (default: DATABASE)
• audit.db.cleanup.days - audit records older than specified number of days are deleted (default: 365)
• audit.db.table.log.name - name of audit log database table (default: audit_log)
• audit.db.table.param.name - name of audit parameters database table (default: audit_param)
• audit.db.table.param.enabled - flag if logging params to parameters database is enabled (default: false)
• audit.db.batch.size - database batch size (default: 1000)

You can configure database schema used by the auditing library using regular Spring JPA/Hibernate property in your application:

• spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.default_schema - database database schema (default: none)

Audit Levels

Following audit levels are available:

• error - an error occurred
• warn - a minor error occurred
• info - informational message
• debug - debug message (disabled by default)
• trace - trace message (disabled by default)

Code samples

Initialization of audit factory:

@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = {"com.wultra.core.audit.base"})
public class WebServerConfiguration {

    private final AuditFactory auditFactory;

    @Autowired
    public WebServerConfiguration(AuditFactory auditFactory) {
        this.auditFactory = auditFactory;
    }

    @Bean
    public Audit audit() {
       return auditFactory.getAudit();
    }
}

Autowiring:

public class MyClass {
    private final Audit audit;

    @Autowired
    public MyClass(Audit audit) {
      this.audit = audit;
    }
}

Basic usage:

   audit.info("a message");

Formatting messages:

   audit.info("a message with {}", "formatting");

Auditing with specified level:

   audit.log("a message for error level", AuditLevel.ERROR);

Auditing of exceptions:

   audit.warn("a message", new Exception("an exception"));

Auditing with parameters:

   audit.info("a message", AuditDetail.builder().param("my_id", "some_id").build());

Auditing with parameters and type of audit message:

   String operationId = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
   Map<String, Object> param = new LinkedHashMap<>();
   param.put("user_id", "some_id");
   param.put("operation_id", operationId);
   audit.info("an access message", AuditDetail.builder().type("ACCESS").params(param).build());

Wultra HTTP Common

The http-common project provides common functionality for HTTP stack.

Features

RequestContextConverter

RequestContextConverter converts HttpServletRequest to a Wultra specific class RequestContext. This context object contains user agent and best-effort guess of the client IP address.

Wultra Annotations

The annotations project provides common annotations.

Right now, these annotations are available:

• PublicApi - Marker for interfaces intended to be called by extension.
• PublicSpi - Marker for interfaces intended to be implemented by extensions and called by core.