I have a high volume java application in which I have to send http posts to another server.
Currently I'm using org.apache.commons.httpclient library:
private static void sendData(String data) {
HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
StringRequestEntity requestEntity;
try {
requestEntity = new StringRequestEntity(data, "application/json", "UTF-8");
String address = "http://<my host>/events/"
PostMethod postMethod = new PostMethod(address);
postMethod.setRequestEntity(requestEntity);
httpclient.executeMethod(postMethod);
} catch (Exception e) {
LOG.error("Failed to send data ", e);
}
}
This means I'm sending my http requests synchronously, which doesn't fit my multithreaded high volume app. So I would like to change those calls to asynchronous non-blocking http calls.
I was going through number of options such as apache async client and xsocket but was not able to make it work.
Tried ning:
private static void sendEventToGrpahiteAsync(String event) {
LOG.info("\n" + "sendEventToGrpahiteAsync");
try (AsyncHttpClient asyncHttpClient = new AsyncHttpClient()) {
BoundRequestBuilder post = asyncHttpClient.preparePost();
post.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
post.setBodyEncoding("UTF-8");
post.setBody(event);
post.execute(new HttpRequestCompletionHandler());
} catch (Exception e) {
LOG.error("Failed to sending event", e);
}
}
I tried Apache HttpAsyncClient:
private static void sendEventToGrpahiteAsync(String event) {
LOG.info("\n" + "sendEventToGrpahiteAsync");
try (CloseableHttpAsyncClient httpclient = HttpAsyncClients.createDefault()) {
httpclient.start();
HttpPost request = new HttpPost(addr);
StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(event, ContentType.create("application/json", Consts.UTF_8));
request.setEntity(entity);
httpclient.execute(request, null);
} catch (Exception e) {
LOG.error("Failed to sending event", e);
}
}
I tried xsocket:
private static void sendEventToGrpahiteAsync2(String event) {
LOG.info("\n" + "sendEventToGrpahiteAsync");
try (INonBlockingConnection con = new NonBlockingConnection(<SERVER_IP>, 80);
IHttpClientEndpoint httpClientConnection = new HttpClientConnection(con)) {
IHttpResponseHandler responseHandler = new MyResponseHandler();
IHttpRequest request = new PostRequest(url_address, "application/json", Consts.UTF_8.toString(), event);
request.setTransferEncoding(Consts.UTF_8.toString());
httpClientConnection.send(request, responseHandler);
} catch (Exception e) {
LOG.error("Failed to sending event", e);
}
}
I get no exceptions but the post doesn't get to the target as well.
To be clear, the target is a graphite server so once a post arrives it is clearly seen in a graph. The synchronous posts works well, I can see the result on the graph, but none of the asynchronous posts shows on my destination graph.
What am I missing?
Thanks