Class HTTP2Client

All Implemented Interfaces:
Container, Destroyable, Dumpable, Dumpable.DumpableContainer, LifeCycle

@ManagedObject public class HTTP2Client extends ContainerLifeCycle

HTTP2Client provides an asynchronous, non-blocking implementation to send HTTP/2 frames to a server.

Typical usage:

 
 // Create and start HTTP2Client.
 HTTP2Client http2Client = new HTTP2Client();
 http2Client.start();
 SslContextFactory sslContextFactory = http2Client.getClientConnector().getSslContextFactory();

 // Connect to host.
 String host = "webtide.com";
 int port = 443;

 CompletableFuture<Session> sessionPromise = http2Client.connect(sslContextFactory, new InetSocketAddress(host, port), new ServerSessionListener() {});

 // Obtain the client-side Session object.
 Session session = sessionPromise.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

 // Prepare the HTTP request headers.
 HttpFields.Mutable requestFields = HttpFields.build();
 requestFields.put("User-Agent", http2Client.getClass().getName() + "/" + Jetty.VERSION);
 // Prepare the HTTP request object.
 MetaData.Request request = new MetaData.Request("PUT", HttpURI.from("https://" + host + ":" + port + "/"), HttpVersion.HTTP_2, requestFields);
 // Create the HTTP/2 HEADERS frame representing the HTTP request.
 HeadersFrame headersFrame = new HeadersFrame(request, null, false);

 // Prepare the listener to receive the HTTP response frames.
 Stream.Listener responseListener = new Stream.Listener()
 {
      @Override
      public void onHeaders(Stream stream, HeadersFrame frame)
      {
          System.err.println(frame);
      }

      @Override
      public void onData(Stream stream, DataFrame frame, Callback callback)
      {
          System.err.println(frame);
          callback.succeeded();
      }
 };

 // Send the HEADERS frame to create a stream.
 CompletableFuture<Stream> streamPromise = session.newStream(headersFrame, responseListener);
 Stream stream = streamPromise.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

 // Use the Stream object to send request content, if any, using a DATA frame.
 ByteBuffer content = UTF_8.encode("hello");
 DataFrame requestContent = new DataFrame(stream.getId(), content, true);
 stream.data(requestContent, Callback.NOOP);

 // When done, stop the HTTP2Client.
 http2Client.stop();