Bindings of components in mule
- 2. Components can use bindings to call an external service during execution. The bindings used with a Java component bind a Java interface, or single interface method, to an outbound endpoint. The external service to be called should implement the same interface, and the component should encapsulate a reference to that interface, which is initialized during the bootstrap stage by the Mule configuration builder. The reference will be initialized using a reflective proxy class.
- 4. With component bindings, you can configure multiple interfaces or a single interface with an endpoint bound to one or more Mule endpoints. Mule currently supports component bindings for Java components (the default components in Mule) and script components, such as Groovy or JRuby. This page describes how to configure each.
- 5. Bindings can be used by components to call out to an external service. The bound interface is added to the component as a field with the usual bean getter and setter methods. In the binding configuration for the component, you can bind this interface along with a method in the interface to a Mule endpoint. When that method is called, the call parameters are sent over the Mule endpoint to another service, which may be local or remote. A result may be returned from the flow and passed back to the component using the return argument of the method. This model is very similar to traditional RPC calls.
- 7. In the above example, the component InvokerComponent has a field hello, which is of typeHelloInterface, with getter and setter methods for the field. The invoke method will be called on the flow and calls the hello.sayHello() method. This call will result in another flow. The HelloInterface is very simple with a single method sayHello.
- 9. You can handle data conversion when making a call and receiving a result using the normal transformer configuration on the endpoint. In the above example, assume the Web service was expecting an org.mule.examples.bindings.WebHelloRequ est object and returned an org.mule.examples.bindings.WebHelloResp onse object. You don’t want your component to know about these external data types, so you can configure transformers to do the conversion when the call is made as shown in next slide :
- 11. If the remote flow triggers an exception of fault, this exception will get serialized back to the local flow call and thrown. If your service wants to handle this exception, you must add the exception (or java.lang.Exception) to the bound method signature and use a try catch block as usual.
- 13. The implementation for the component is contained within the <script:script>element as shown below : return "Total: " + AdditionService.add(1,2)
- 14. ThankYou!!!!!!!!