extractRequestEntity • Akka HTTP (original) (raw)

Signature

def extractRequestEntity: Directive1[RequestEntity]

Description

Extracts the RequestEntityRequestEntity from the RequestContextRequestContext.

The directive returns a RequestEntityRequestEntity without unmarshalling the request. To extract domain entity, entity should be used.

Example

Scala

source`` val route = extractRequestEntity { entity => complete(s"Request entity content-type is ${entity.contentType}") }

// tests: val httpEntity = HttpEntity(ContentTypes.text/plain(UTF-8), "req") Post("/abc", httpEntity) ~> route ~> check { responseAs[String] shouldEqual "Request entity content-type is text/plain; charset=UTF-8" } ``

Java

source`import static akka.http.javadsl.server.Directives.extractRequestEntity;

final Route route = extractRequestEntity(entity -> complete("Request entity content-type is " + entity.getContentType()) );

// tests: testRoute(route).run( HttpRequest.POST("/abc") .withEntity(HttpEntities.create(ContentTypes.TEXT_PLAIN_UTF8, "req")) ).assertEntity("Request entity content-type is text/plain; charset=UTF-8");`

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