Pekko HTTP

Client and server backed by Pekko HTTP.

Warning

As explained in the section Mixed versioning is not allowed in the Pekko documentation, you have to make sure that all the Pekko modules of your application have the same version.

For this reason, the interpreters pekko-http-server and pekko-http-client have marked their dependency to Pekko as “provided”.

As a consequence, to use these interpreters you will have to explicitly add a dependency on pekko-stream:

"org.apache.pekko" %% "pekko-stream" % "<pekko-version>"

Where <pekko-version> is binary compatible and higher or equal to 1.0.3.

Client

API documentation

endpoints4s.pekkohttp.client.Endpoints

The Endpoints interpreter fixes the Endpoint[A, B] type to a function from A to Future[B]:

sourcecase class Endpoint[A, B](
    request: Request[A],
    response: Response[B]
) extends (A => Future[B])

This means that, given the following endpoint definition:

sourceval someResource: Endpoint[Int, String] =
  endpoint(get(path / "some-resource" / segment[Int]()), ok(textResponse))

It can be invoked as follows:

sourceval eventuallyString: Future[String] = someResource(42)

endpoints4s.pekkohttp.client.ChunkedEntities

The ChunkedEntities interpreter fixes the Chunks[A] type to pekko.stream.scaladsl.Source[A, _]:

sourcetype Chunks[A] = org.apache.pekko.stream.scaladsl.Source[A, _]

This means that, given the following endpoint definition:

sourceval logo: Endpoint[Unit, Chunks[Array[Byte]]] =
  endpoint(get(path / "logo.png"), ok(bytesChunksResponse))

It can be invoked as follows:

sourceimport org.apache.pekko.stream.scaladsl.Source

val bytesSource: Source[Array[Byte], _] =
  Source.futureSource(logo(()))

bytesSource.runForeach { bytes => println(s"Received ${bytes.length} bytes") }

Server

API documentation

endpoints4s.pekkohttp.server.Endpoints

The Endpoints interpreter fixes the Endpoint[A, B] type to something that, given an implementation function A => B, returns an org.apache.pekko.http.scaladsl.server.Route that can be integrated to your Pekko HTTP application.

For instance, given the following endpoint definition:

sourceval someResource: Endpoint[Int, String] =
  endpoint(get(path / "some-resource" / segment[Int]()), ok(textResponse))

It can be implemented as follows:

sourceval route: Route =
  someResource.implementedBy(x => s"Received $x")

Alternatively, there is also a method implementedByAsync that takes an implementing function returning a Future[B].

endpoints4s.pekkohttp.server.ChunkedEntities

The ChunkedEntities interpreter fixes the Chunks[A] type to pekko.stream.scaladsl.Source[A, _].

For instance, given the following chunked endpoint definition:

sourceval logo: Endpoint[Unit, Chunks[Array[Byte]]] =
  endpoint(get(path / "logo.png"), ok(bytesChunksResponse))

It can be implemented as follows:

sourceimport java.nio.file.Paths
import org.apache.pekko.stream.scaladsl.FileIO

val logoRoute: Route =
  logo.implementedBy { _ =>
    FileIO.fromPath(Paths.get("/foo/bar/logo.png")).map(_.toArray)
  }

Error handling

When the server processes requests, three kinds of errors can happen: the incoming request doesn’t match any endpoint, the request does match an endpoint but is invalid (e.g. one parameter has a wrong type), or an exception is thrown.

The incoming request doesn’t match any endpoint

In that case, the routes constructed by endpoints4s can’t do anything. You have to deal with such errors in the usual Pekko HTTP way: by using an implicit org.apache.pekko.http.scaladsl.server.RejectionHandler having a handleNotFound clause.

The incoming request is invalid

In that case, endpoints4s returns a “Bad Request” (400) response reporting all the errors in a JSON array. You can change this behavior by overriding the handleClientErrors method.

An exception is thrown

If an exception is thrown during request decoding, or when running the business logic, or when encoding the response, endpoints4s returns an “Internal Server Error” (500) response reporting the error in a JSON array. You can change this behavior by overriding the handleServerError method.