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Quarkus IO : Supersonic Subatomic Mircoservices Introduction

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Quarkus IO : Supersonic Subatomic Mircoservices ready framework course

Introduction

Quarkus IO is a microservices based java framework. According to QuarkusIO website , Quarkus is "A Kubernetes Native Java stack tailored for OpenJDK HotSpot & GraalVM, crafted from the best of breed Java libraries and standards". This course will talks about creating microservices based on Quarkus. We will be going through

  1. Installing required software for understanding full features of Quarkus
  2. Building Todo and User Microservices using Quarkus
  3. Building superfast native images
  4. Writing test cases
  5. Using Hibernate and Mongodb database as backend
  6. Creating microservices architecture using Fallbacks and distributed logginh
  7. deploying them in cloud

Installing Software

In this section we will look at installing software required for this course. This is a prerequisite if you want to follow along this course. We will be installing . We will be installing on Linux based system but you can install on your desired operation system

  1. JDK 1.8+
  2. Maven 3.6.X
  3. GraalVM
  4. Docker

JDK

To install JDK go to official website and download the latest version for your operating system.On a linux laptop with Ubuntu you can follow the steps as well

  1. Open terminal

  2. write following commands

            sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa
        sudo apt update
        sudo apt install open-jdk-8-jdk
        export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk
        export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

Check the installed version

java -version
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Maven 3.6.X

Maven is a build tool it will help us to create builds effectively. To install maven visit maven website and download latest maven. Unzip it and add to path. JAVA_HOME must be set to use maven

unzip apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.zip
            export PATH=/opt/apache-maven-3.6.3/bin:$PATH
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GraalVM

GraalVM is a virtual machine by oracle which enables user to create native images. Native images are faster and has lower memory footprint. GraamVM enable local executables and the binary created by it is independent of JVM it runs faster. It must be noticed that while creating native builds GraalVM do analyse all the classes your code will use at its entire life cycle and the compiles to byte code , the entire process is a bit slow. Run below commands to install GraalVM on linux (ubuntu)

            sudo apt-get install build-essential libz-dev zlib1g-dev
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You can install GraamVM community edition or can download enterprise edition from oracle website. If you have a enterprise edition tar file downloaded

            tar -xvf graalvm-ee-java11-linux-amd64-19.3.1.tar.gz
            export GRAALVM_HOME=/home/coding/Documents/Softwares/graalvm-ee-java11-19.3.1/
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If you have enterprise edition installed download native jar and run following command

            ${GRAALVM_HOME}/bin/gu install native-image --filr native-image-installable-svm-svmee-java11-linux-amd64-19.3.1.jar
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Docker

To install docker at Ubuntu we can use following commands

         sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
         curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
         sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic test"
         sudo apt update
         sudo apt install docker-ce
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For detailed documentation of installation on any platform https://docs.docker.com/

Creating User Microservices

In this section we will create our first microservice. We will create user-service which will help us to perform crud operations on user. User service will have mogodb as back end . We will create it using maven command ,Alternatively we can also use generator site i.e https://code.quarkus.io

Creating user-service using maven

Open terminal and type following command.

        mvn io.quarkus:quarkus-maven-plugin:1.2.0.Final:create \
            -DprojectGroupId=com.codingsaint.learning.quarkus \
            -DprojectArtifactId=user-service \
            -DclassName="com.codingsaint.learning.quarkus.UserResource" \
            -Dpath="/user"
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While the above command will only a bare project which you can run using simple maven command. We will be adding the dependencies later , just to understand how can we use quarkus maven extension to add dependencies ,Obviously both steps can be combined together.

         cd user-service
         mvn quarkus:dev
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Running application in dev mode

The command to run in dev mode is

         mvn quarkus:dev
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This will start the server in dev mode.In dev mode if you edit the code and do a change it will stop quarkus (not JVM), recompile and start quarkus . This works as live reload and is very helpful in dev mode

building native image

Quarkus comes with integrated support for building native images , you can build bare metal or docker based images.To create a image run the below command

mvn package -Pnative
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It must be noted that this is a maven profile for building native images and to support this GraalVM must be installed with native jar as mentioned above. To build native for docker image add

-Dnative-image.docker-build=true
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Adding dependencies

We will be using below command to add dependecies

mvn quarkus:add-extension -Dextensions=hibernate-validator,mongodb-panache,resteasy-jsonb
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It must be noted that we could have added extensions while creating the project itself adding -D extension , this is just to show , how to add dependencies using maven. You can find list of all the available dependencies at https://quarkus.io/extensions/

Creating User entity 

        `package com.codingsaint.learning.quarkus;

    import org.slf4j.Logger;
    import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

    import javax.validation.Valid;
    import javax.ws.rs.*;
    import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
    import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
    import java.util.UUID;

    @Path("/users")
    public class UserResource {

        private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(UserResource.class);

        /**
         * Get all of the users
         *
         * @return Response> users
         */
        @GET
        @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
        public Response users() {
            return Response.ok(User.listAll()).build();
        }

        /**
         * Create the user
         *
         * @param user
         * @return
         */
        @POST
        @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
        @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
        public Response users(final @Valid User user) {
            user.setUserId(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
            user.setActive(true);
            User.persist(user);
            return Response.ok().build();
        }

        /**
         * Update the user
         *
         * @param user
         * @return
         */
        @PUT
        @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
        @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
        public Response update(final @Valid User user) {
            user.update();
            return Response.ok(user).build();
        }

        /**
         * retrieve user based on userId
         *
         * @param userId
         * @return Response */
        @GET
        @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
        @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
        @Path("id/{id}")
        public Response getUserByUserId(@PathParam("id") String userId) {
            User user = User.findByUserId(userId);
            LOGGER.info(" finding user based on userId {}", userId);
            return Response.ok(user).build();
        }

        /**
         * delete user based on userId
         * @param userId
         * @return
         */
        @DELETE
        @Path("id/{id}")
        public Response deleteUser(@PathParam("id") String userId) {
            LOGGER.info(" delete user based on userId {}", userId);
            User.delete("userId",userId);
            return Response.noContent().build();
        }

    }`
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Adding UserResource

            package com.codingsaint.learning.quarkus;

            import javax.validation.Valid;
            import javax.ws.rs.*;
            import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
            import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
            import java.util.UUID;

            @Path("/user")
            public class UserResource {

            @GET
            @Path("/all")
            @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            public Response users() {
            return Response.ok(User.findAll().list()).build();
            }
            @POST
            @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
            public Response users(final @Valid User user) {
            user.setUserId(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
            user.setActive(true);
            User.persist(user);
            return Response.ok().build();
            }
            }
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Adding application properties 

            quarkus.mongodb.connection-string = mongodb://localhost:27017
            quarkus.mongodb.database=todo-users
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Running the server

Run the server using below command

            mvn quarkus:dev
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Add a user

Add following curl command or use postman or other software to do a post

curl -X POST \
            http://localhost:8080/user \
            -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
            -d '{
            "firstName":"Kumar",
            "lastName":"Pallav",
            "dateOfBirth":"1987-08-05",
            "email":"codingsaint@gmail.com"
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}'

Retrieve all users

Use a get request http://localhost:8080/user/all or do a curl as below

            curl -X GET \
            http://localhost:8080/user/all \
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You will get a response like

            [{

            "id": "5e430af58cd12948d22faa9a",

            "active": true,

            "dateOfBirth": "1987-08-05",

            "email": "codingsaint@gmail.com",

            "firstName": "Kumar",

            "lastName": "Pallav",

            "userId": "10905021-e7c5-43e2-a29e-8a42f69d4fb2"

            }]
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Beeblebrox • • Edited

for everyone wondering about missing actual mongoDB instance, pull or build the image and run it with:
'$ docker run -d -p 27017:27017 -n myMongo mongod'
After that 27017 port will be exposed and Quarkus Application will be able to connect to it. For preserving data after mongoDB container restart, mount volume using:
'-v your-local-folder:/data/db'
or similar

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