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This component is intended to be upgraded to use Netty 4.0 when camel-netty4 component has finished being upgraded. At the time being this component is still based on Netty 3.x. The upgrade is intended to be as backwards compatible as possible.

Netty is stream based, which means the input it receives is submitted to Camel as a stream. That means you will only be able to read the content of the stream once.
If you find a situation where the message body appears to be empty or you need to access the data multiple times (eg: doing multicasting, or redelivery error handling)
you should use Stream caching or convert the message body to a String which is safe to be re-read multiple times.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-netty-http</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

netty-http:http://localhost:8080[?options]

Important: This component inherits all the options from Netty. So make sure to look at the Netty documentation as well.
Notice that some options from Netty is not applicable when using this Netty HTTP component, such as options related to UDP transport.

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|| Name || Default Value || Description ||
| {{chunkedMaxContentLength}} | {{1mb}} | Value in bytes the max content length per chunked frame received on the Netty HTTP server. | 
| {{compression}} | {{false}} | Allow using gzip/deflate for compression on the Netty HTTP server if the client supports it from the HTTP headers. |
| {{headerFilterStrategy}} | | To use a custom  {{org.apache.camel.spi.HeaderFilterStrategy}} to filter headers. |
| {{httpMethodRestrict}} | | To disable HTTP methods on the Netty HTTP consumer. You can specify multiple separated by comma. |
| {{mapHeaders}} | {{true}} | If this option is enabled, then during binding from Netty to Camel [Message] then the headers will be mapped as well (eg added as header to the Camel [Message] as well). You can turn off this option to disable this. The headers can still be accessed from the {{org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.NettyHttpMessage}} message with the method {{getHttpRequest()}} that returns the Netty HTTP request {{org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequest}} instance. |
| {{matchOnUriPrefix}} | {{false}} | Whether or not Camel should try to find a target consumer by matching the URI prefix if no exact match is found. See further below for more details. |
| {{nettyHttpBinding}} | | To use a custom {{org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.NettyHttpBinding}} for binding to/from Netty and Camel Message API. |
| {{bridgeEndpoint}} | {{false}} | If the option is {{true}}, the producer will ignore the {{Exchange.HTTP_URI}} header, and use the endpoint's URI for request. You may also set the {{throwExceptionOnFailure}} to be {{false}} to let the producer send all the fault response back. |
| {{throwExceptionOnFailure}} | {{true}} | Option to disable throwing the {{HttpOperationFailedException}} in case of failed responses from the remote server. This allows you to get all responses regardles of the HTTP status code. |
| {{traceEnabled}} | {{false}} | Specifies whether to enable HTTP TRACE for this Netty HTTP consumer. By default TRACE is turned off. |
| {{transferException}} | {{false}} | If enabled and an [Exchange] failed processing on the consumer side, and if the caused Exception was send back serialized in the response as a {{application/x-java-serialized-object}} content type. On the producer side the exception will be deserialized and thrown as is, instead of the {{HttpOperationFailedException}}. The caused exception is required to be serialized. |
| {{urlDecodeHeaders}} |  | If this option is enabled, then during binding from Netty to Camel [Message] then the header values will be URL decoded (eg %20 will be a space character. Notice this option is used by the default {{org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.NettyHttpBinding}} and therefore if you implement a custom {{org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.NettyHttpBinding}} then you would need to decode the headers accordingly to this option. *Notice:* This option is default {{true}} for Camel 2.12.x, and default {{false}} from Camel 2.13 onwards. |
| {{nettySharedHttpServer}} | {{null}} | To use a shared [Netty HTTP] server. See [Netty HTTP Server Example] for more details. |
| {{disableStreamCache}} | {{false}} | Determines whether or not the raw input stream from Netty {{HttpRequest#getContent()}} is cached or not (Camel will read the stream into a in light-weight memory based Stream caching) cache. By default Camel will cache the Netty input stream to support reading it multiple times to ensure it Camel can retrieve all data from the stream. However you can set this option to {{true}} when you for example need to access the raw stream, such as streaming it directly to a file or other persistent store. Mind that if you enable this option, then you cannot read the Netty stream multiple times out of the box, and you would need manually to reset the reader index on the Netty raw stream. |
| {{securityConfiguration}} | {{null}} | *Consumer only*. Refers to a {{org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.NettyHttpSecurityConfiguration}} for configuring secure web resources. |
| {{send503whenSuspended}} | {{true}} | *Consumer only*. Whether to send back HTTP status code 503 when the consumer has been suspended. If the option is {{false}} then the Netty Acceptor is unbound when the consumer is suspended, so clients cannot connect anymore. |
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|| Name || Default Value || Description ||
| {{authenticate}} | {{true}} | Whether authentication is enabled. Can be used to quickly turn this off. |
| {{constraint}} | {{Basic}} | The constraint supported. Currently only {{Basic}} is implemented and supported. |
| {{realm}} | {{null}} | The name of the JAAS security realm. This option is mandatory. |
| {{securityConstraint}} | {{null}} | Allows to plugin a security constraint mapper where you can define ACL to web resources. |
| {{securityAuthenticator}} | {{null}} | Allows to plugin a authenticator that performs the authentication. If none has been configured then the {{org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.JAASSecurityAuthenticator}} is used by default. |
| {{loginDeniedLoggingLevel}} | {{DEBUG}} | Logging level used when a login attempt failed, which allows to see more details why the login failed. |
| {{roleClassName}} | {{null}} | To specify FQN class names of {{Principal}} implementations that contains user roles. If none has been specified, then the [Netty HTTP] component will by default assume a {{Principal}} is role based if its FQN classname has the lower-case word {{role}} in its classname. You can specify multiple class names separated by comma. |
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|| Name || Type || Description ||
| {{CamelHttpMethod}} | {{String}} | Allow to control what HTTP method to use such as GET, POST, TRACE etc. The type can also be a {{org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod}} instance. |
| {{CamelHttpQuery}} | {{String}} | Allows to provide URI query parameters as a {{String}} value that overrides the endpoint configuration. Separate multiple parameters using the & sign. For example: {{foo=bar&beer=yes}}. |
| {{Content-Type}} | {{String}} | To set the content-type of the HTTP body. For example: {{text/plain; charset="UTF-8"}}. |
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|| Name || Type || Description ||
| {{CamelHttpMethod}} | {{String}} | The HTTP method used, such as GET, POST, TRACE etc. |
| {{CamelHttpUrl}} | {{String}} | The URL including protocol, host and port, etc: {code}http://0.0.0.0:8080/myapp{code} |
| {{CamelHttpUri}} | {{String}} | The URI without protocol, host and port, etc: {code}/myapp{code} |
| {{CamelHttpQuery}} | {{String}} | Any query parameters, such as {{foo=bar&beer=yes}} |
| {{CamelHttpRawQuery}} | {{String}} | *Camel 2.13.0*: Any query parameters, such as {{foo=bar&beer=yes}}. Stored in the raw form, as they arrived to the consumer (i.e. before URL decoding). |
| {{CamelHttpPath}} | {{String}} | Additional context-path. This value is empty if the client called the context-path {{/myapp}}. If the client calls {{/myapp/mystuff}}, then this header value is {{/mystuff}}. In other words its the value after the context-path configured on the route endpoint. |
| {{CamelHttpCharacterEncoding}} | {{String}} | The charset from the content-type header. |
| {{CamelHttpAuthentication}} | {{String}} | If the user was authenticated using HTTP Basic then this header is added with the value {{Basic}}. |
| {{Content-Type}} | {{String}} | The content type if provided. For example: {{text/plain; charset="UTF-8"}}. |
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org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequest request = exchange.getIn(NettyHttpMessage.class).getHttpRequest();

    from("netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:8080/foo")
      .transform().constant("Bye World");

    String out = template.requestBody("netty-http:http://localhost:8080/foo", "Hello World", String.class);
    System.out.println(out);

from("netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:8123/foo").to("mock:foo");

from("netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:8123/foo?matchOnUriPrefix=true").to("mock:foo");

from("netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:8123?matchOnUriPrefix=true").to("mock:foo");

from("netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:{{port}}/foo")
  .to("mock:foo")
  .transform().constant("Bye World");

from("netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:{{port}}/bar")
  .to("mock:bar")
  .transform().constant("Bye Camel");

from("netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:{{port}}/foo")
  .to("mock:foo")
  .transform().constant("Bye World");

// we cannot have a 2nd route on same port with SSL enabled, when the 1st route is NOT
from("netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:{{port}}/bar?ssl=true")
  .to("mock:bar")
  .transform().constant("Bye Camel");

<bean id="nettyHttpBootstrapOptions" class="org.apache.camel.component.netty.NettyServerBootstrapConfiguration">
  <property name="backlog" value="200"/>
  <property name="connectionTimeout" value="20000"/>
  <property name="workerCount" value="16"/>
</bean>

<route>
  <from uri="netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:{{port}}/foo?bootstrapConfiguration=#nettyHttpBootstrapOptions"/>
  ...
</route>

<route>
  <from uri="netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:{{port}}/bar?bootstrapConfiguration=#nettyHttpBootstrapOptions"/>
  ...
</route>

<route>
  <from uri="netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:{{port}}/beer?bootstrapConfiguration=#nettyHttpBootstrapOptions"/>
  ...
</route>

<route>
   <from uri="netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:{{port}}/foo?securityConfiguration.realm=karaf"/>
   ...
</route>

  <bean id="constraint" class="org.apache.camel.component.netty.http.SecurityConstraintMapping">
    <!-- inclusions defines url -> roles restrictions -->
    <!-- a * should be used for any role accepted (or even no roles) -->
    <property name="inclusions">
      <map>
        <entry key="/*" value="*"/>
        <entry key="/admin/*" value="admin"/>
        <entry key="/guest/*" value="admin,guest"/>
      </map>
    </property>
    <!-- exclusions is used to define public urls, which requires no authentication -->
    <property name="exclusions">
      <set>
        <value>/public/*</value>
      </set>
    </property>
  </bean>

<route>
   <from uri="netty-http:http://0.0.0.0:{{port}}/foo?matchOnUriPrefix=true&amp;securityConfiguration.realm=karaf&amp;securityConfiguration.securityConstraint=#constraint"/>
   ...
</route>