REST-S Messages

Introduction

The RestServerApp uses REST-S-… messages to communicate with other applications (such as the LogicApp) to handle inbound REST/HTTP(S) requests received from an external REST/HTTP(S) Client.

The following LuaApp services from the core n2svcd module handle messages from RestServerApp.

The internal REST-S-… messages are:

Note that this page uses the term “on-the-wire” to refer to the sending or receiving of REST content by the RestServerApp. This term is also inclusive of the case where the message is sent by local loopback and does not physically transit a Network Interface Controller (NIC).

REST-S-REQUEST

The REST-S-REQUEST message is sent by RestServerApp to the application that is configured for handling of inbound REST requests.

Refer to the RestServerApp Configuration documentation for more information on setting default parameters.

The attributes of the REST-S-REQUEST message are:

Attribute Type Description
rest Object Container for the parameters of the REST request that we have received.
.remote_ip String The remote dot-notation IP address from which the REST HTTP(S) request was sent.
.remote_port Integer The remote TCP/IP port from which the REST HTTP(S) request was sent.
.method String The HTTP Request method.
.uri String The URI for which the request was received.
Includes only path and query. No host/port/auth/user/fragment is present.
Any special characters will be escaped using standard URI escape rules.
.path String The URI path.
Any special characters will be escaped using standard URI escape rules.
.query String The URI query string (the part following "?" in the URI).
Any special characters will be escaped using standard URI escape rules.
.content_type String The HTTP Request Content-Type header value.
.content String The HTTP Request content.
.http_headers Array of Object The list of HTTP headers parsed from the HTTP Request (see below for object structure).
All HTTP headers are present, including Content-Length and Content-Type.
If a HTTP header was repeated in the HTTP Request, then it is repeated in this Array.

Note that SSL and security parameters are not placed into this message.

Each object in the rest.http_headers Array for REST-S-REQUEST has the following structure.

Field Type Description
.name String [Required] The name of the HTTP Request header.
.value String [Required] The full string value of the HTTP Request header.

REST-S-RESPONSE

The REST-S-RESPONSE message is sent back to the RestServerApp by the handling application when it is ready to send a HTTP Response to the original received HTTP Request.

The attributes of the REST-S-RESPONSE message are:

Field Type Description
success 0/1 [Required] Indicates if the request handling was successful or not.
error String Indicates the reason why the request handling failed.
Present and applicable only if success == 0.
rest Object Container for the REST response parameters we are to send.
Present only if success == 1.
.code Integer The HTTP Response Status Code to send (e.g. 200)
.content_type String The HTTP Request Content-Type header value to send.
.content String The HTTP Request content to send.
(Default = None)
.http_headers Array of Objects Additional user-level header objects to apply to an outbound HTTP Response (see below for object structure).
These headers are added after any headers defined by static RestServerApp application configuration.
You should not set the Content-Type or Content-Length headers.
(Default = No Additional Headers)

Each object in the rest.http_headers Array for REST-S-RESPONSE has the following structure.

Field Type Description
.name String [Required] The name of the HTTP Response header.
.value String [Required] The full string value of the HTTP Response header.
.replace 0 / 1 If 1 then all previous headers of this name are removed, and this header replaces them.
(Default = Append to the existing headers, do not replace)