ANNOTATIONS.md

Framework default annotations

@Controller

Indicates that this class is a controller and contains routes.

• Retention : Class
• Attributes :
  • value : the base path for every route defined in this controller

@CONNECT, @DELETE, @GET, @HEAD, @OPTIONS, @POST, @PUT, @TRACE

Indicates that this route is accessible by this http method.

• Retention : Method
• Attributes :
  • value (mandatory) : the path this route is accessible from

@BeforeFilter

A method which will be executed before every route defined in this controller. (see it as an pre-interceptor, or pre-filter).

• Retention : Method
• Attributes :
  • value : an Integer : the execution order of this filter (the smallest the first in execution order)

@AfterFilter

A method which will be executed after every route defined in this controller. (see it as a post-interceptor, or post-filter).

• Retention : Method
• Attributes :
  • value : an Integer : the execution order of this filter (the smallest the first in execution order)

@View

Indicates that this route is a view, and should delegate to a template handler.

• Retention : Method
• Attributes :
  • value : the name of the view (suffixed by the template extension : @View("users.hbs")) if it's static. If it's dynamic (i.e. depends on the request), you should use ViewResolver as a parameter of your method.

@ContentType

This route (or every route in the controller) can read/write the following content-types.

If a request is made to one of this routes with a non-acceptable accept header or content-type header, an http 406 error code will be returned. The accept header is parsed in order to determine (and inject in routingContext.data()) the best content-type for this request.

• Retention : Method or Class
• Attributes :
  • value (mandatory) : a list of content-types you know how to handle. Example : @ContentType({"application/json", "text/xml"})

@Auth

This route (or every route in the controller) is protected by authentication.

Read the authentication documentation.

• Retention : Method or Class
• Attributes :
  • method (mandatory) : the method to use as protection (only "BASIC" for basic http authentication) supported yet
  • authority : the authority (i.e. "level-access") needed to access this route

@User

Tells Nubes to inject the current User (making the request) as parameter of the method.

• Retention : method parameter
• Attributes : none

@Cookies

This route (or every route in the controller) makes use of cookies. (Either read or write cookies)

• Retention : Method or Class
• Attributes : none

@CookieValue

Tells Nubes to inject a specific cookie value as parameter of the method.

• Retention : method parameter
• Attributes :
  • value (mandatory) : the name of the cookie

@Before

Injects a specific handler (named) right before your method is executed.

Read the interceptor documentation

• Retention : Method
• Attributes :
  • value (mandatory): the name of the interceptor

@After

Injects a specific handler (named) right after your method is executed.

Read the interceptor documentation

• Retention : Method
• Attributes :
  • value (mandatory) : the name of the interceptor

@Throttled

This route as a rate limitation (a single client can't access the route more than N times in a M second window), as defined in the configuration.

• Retention : Method or Class
• Attributes : none

@Header

Injects some header as parameter of your method.

• Retention : Method
• Attributes :
  • value (mandatory) : the name of the header you're interested in

@Params

Tries to populate a Java bean with all the request parameters. And inject it in your method.

• Retention : method parameter
• Attributes : none

@Param

Injects a specific request parameter as parameter of the method.

• Retention : method parameter
• Attributes :
  • value (mandatory) : the name of the request (or routing) parameter

@VertxLocalMap

Injects a LocalMap instance as parameter of a method so that you can access it.

• Retention : method parameter
• Attributes :
  • value (mandatory) : the name of the map

LocalMapValue

Injects a LocalMap specific value as parameter of a method.

• Retention : method parameter
• Attributes :
  • mapName (mandatory) : the name of the map
  • key (mandatory) : the key of the item in the local map

@RequestBody

Tries to inject the request's body as a Java bean as a method parameter.

• Retention : method parameter
• Attributes : none

@ClientRedirect

Indicates that the method will send a client redirect (HTTP status code 301) after being invoked.

• Retention : Method
• Attributes :
  • value (mandatory) : the URL of the redirect

@ServerRedirect

Indicates that the server will perform a server (silent for the client) redirect. Once the method has returned, another route will be invoked without the client knowing it.

• Retention : Method
• Attributes :
  • controller (mandatory) : the class of the controller holding the redirect route
  • method (mandatory) : the redirect route method

@Disabled

Indicates that this route (or every route in the controller) is disabled. Trying to reach this path will end up in a 404. The method won't be called. It can be useful to disable a route but keep the code in place to reactivate it in a further version for example.

• Retention : Method or Class
• Attributes : none

@Blocking

Indicates that the method is blocking (and takes a significant amount of time to process) and should be handled in a non-eventloop thread. Even though it's tempting to mark every method as Blocking "just in case" keep in mind that if your method is async or really doesn't do a lot of complicated stuff, delegating the work to a new thread is simply unefficient.

• Retention : Method
• Attributes : none

@File

This method returns a file.

Read the file resolving documentation

• Retention : Method
• Attributes :
  • value : the name of the file, if it's not dynamic. If not, you should add a FileResolver parameter in your method.

Services

@Service

Injects a service (or a simple Java bean) as a field into the controller at runtime.

Read the service documentation

• Retention : Field
• Attributes :
  • value : the name you registered the service under

@Consumer (for a service)

This method will be called everytime a message is published on the EventBus at the address specified as parameter. Note that the method annotated with @Consumer("some address") can take only one parameter of type : io.vertx.core.eventbus.Message

• Retention : Method (on a service)
• Attributes :
  • value : the address to listen to on the event bus

@PeriodicTask (for a service)

This method will be invoked on a periodic basis. These methods should have no parameter.

• Retention : Method (on a service)
• Attributes :
  • value : the period (in ms)