Spring Integration Gateway with no arguments - java

On my gateway, I have a method
#Gateway
String commsTest();
The idea is that I can call commsTest from the bean and use spring integration to wire it up to the service activator that will check comms.
When I do that I get a receive is not supported, because no pollable reply channel has been configured error. I realise that this is because a method with no params means "I am trying to poll a message from the channel"
This is a two part question.
What does it mean to poll a message from the channel.
How can I get the functionality I want.

Spring Integration currently has no concept of a message without a payload. By default, a gateway method with no arguments implies you want to receive data (rather than sending data or sending and receiving data).
You can change that default behavior, as described in the reference documentation.

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I have got two Spring Boot application. First one is REST application. The REST one is communicating with second application through RabbitMQ message queue. I'm sending a request to method with the #GetMapping("/") and this method producing a message to example-queue. A method with #RabbitListener(queues = {"example-queue"}) taking the message and create a object at database. Now, how can I send my response (saved object) to the method with #GetMapping("/")? I need a response from consumer to ResponseEntity.ok();. How can I do that? Thank you.
Just see if you can make the interaction with RabbitMQ consumer as a request-reply pattern.
The #RabbitListener can just return your object and be marked with a #SendTo. This way the framework will look into a replyTo property of the request message.
On the producer side you can just use an AmqpTemplate.convertSendAndReceive().
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Is it possible to return a application/json from a Spring Integration http inbound-channel-adapter?

I have an inbound-channel-adapter that forwards message to router and router has one mapping property which calls service activator where I am trying to trigger one REST POST service which accepts input JSON and produce output JSON.
In this case, service activator reutrns null but since http has to return a response.(In inbound-channel-adapter, I am using status-code-expression="T(org.springframework.http.HttpStatus).NO_CONTENT"
I'm using spring-integration v4.3.6
No, it’s possible. Since this component is one-way, there is nothing to return - just only status code header. By default it is 200 OK.
If you would like to return something, you should consider to use HTTP Inbound Gateway instead.
Otherwise your question isn’t clear

Asynchronous request-reply with Spring Boot and RabbitMQ

We want to implement the following scenario:
A producer service sends some input params to another service asking for the details based on these params.
A producer wants to specify the queue where it will be listening for the reply.
Moreover, a producer wants to provide some metadata so that it can correlate the params it sent with a result it got.
Please advice how to do this properly.
See the AsyncRabbitTemplate.
It uses the correlationId and replyTo properties to convey that information to the service that handles the request.

Spring AMQP MessageProperties:all headers were removed during deadlettering

I have got a question about Spring AMQP Message:
During processing I was able to update headers of message properties in String AMQP Message with some specific values.
After DeadLettering of this message, all specific headers were disappeared/removed.
Is this behaviour correct ?
Looking forward to your response.
Regards, Anton.
spring-rabbit.version: 1.3.5.RELEASE
spring.version: 4.1.1.RELEASE
The broker knows nothing about your client-side consumer changes; the original message (with its orignal headers) is dead-lettered by the broker (with an x-death header added to indicate the reason - rejection, expiry etc).
In order to do what you want, you need to publish your modified message yourself rather than using dead-lettering.
See the RepublishMessageRecoverer for an example using Spring retry. You can make a custom recover, or simply catch the exception in your listener to republish.

Spring MVC like processing of AMQP messages

What I want to do is process AMQP messages in a very similar way the Http Requests are processed using spring-webmvc annotations such as #RequestMapping, #RequestParam etc. But, instead of the Http Request my source object will be an AMQP message. The AMQP message request will have two headers, for example -
method="POST"
url="/api/myobjects/{someParam}"
and the payload will contain data in json format.
If you have noticed, this is nothing but HTTP REST api mapped to AMQP message.
I want to be able to write a controller like handler, for example -
#Controller
public class MyObjectHandler {
#RequestMapping(value="/api/myobjects/{someParam}", method="POST")
public MyObject createMyObject(#Payload MyObject myObj, #PathParam String someParam) {
//... some processing
return myObj;
}
// ...more handlers
}
I have looked at spring-amqp/rabbitmq annotations and also spring integration annotations. They are close to what I want, but would not allow routing to handler methods based on header parameters, especially the REST url.
I don't expect that a readymade solution would be available for this. Just want to make sure I choose the best possible option. Some of the options I think are (in order of precedence)
If the spring-webmvc annotation processing mechanism is extensible, just extend it to use AMQP message as source instead of Http Request
Modify the spring-webmvc annotation processing mechanism to take the AMQP message as input instead of Http Request
Write your own solution with custom annotaions and their processors, which I think is a very involving task
Or any other possible approach than above?
Any guidance/direction is appreciated.
I think the starting point is likely AbstractMethodMessageHandler in spring-messaging.
There's currently a SimpAnnotationMethodMessageHandler implementation for websockets which invokes #Controllers.
You could use a #RabbisListener method that has a Message<?> parameter (Spring AMQP will convert the underlying Rabbit message to a spring-messaging message, including the headers). Then, invoke the message handler to route to the appropriate controller method.
If you come up with a robust implementation, please consider contributing it.

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