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Chapter 65. Rest

Expose REST services and their OpenAPI Specification or call external REST services.

65.1. What’s inside
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Please refer to the above links for usage and configuration details.

65.2. Maven coordinates
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Create a new project with this extension on code.quarkus.redhat.com

Or add the coordinates to your existing project: 

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-quarkus-rest</artifactId>
</dependency>
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65.3. Additional Camel Quarkus configuration
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This extension depends on the Platform HTTP extension and configures it as the component that provides the REST transport.

When using the platform-http REST transport, some characters are not allowed within path parameter names. This includes the '-' and '$' characters.

In order to make the below example REST /dashed/param route work correctly, a system property is required io.vertx.web.route.param.extended-pattern=true. 

import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;

public class CamelRoute extends RouteBuilder {

    @Override
    public void configure() {
        rest("/api")
            // Dash '-' is not allowed by default
            .get("/dashed/param/{my-param}")
            .to("direct:greet")

            // The non-dashed path parameter works by default
            .get("/undashed/param/{myParam}")
            .to("direct:greet");

            from("direct:greet")
                .setBody(constant("Hello World"));
    }
}
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There is some more background to this in the Vert.x Web documentation.

To use another REST transport provider, such as netty-http or servlet, you need to add the respective extension as a dependency to your project and set the provider in your RouteBuilder. E.g. for servlet, you’d have to add the org.apache.camel.quarkus:camel-quarkus-servlet dependency and the set the provider as follows: 

import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;

public class CamelRoute extends RouteBuilder {

    @Override
    public void configure() {
        restConfiguration()
                .component("servlet");
        ...
    }
}
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