How to read the body of the HTTP Request using Netty?

Question

Im using netty3.3 version, I want to read the Body of the HTTP Request which i received. How it is posssible through NETTY 3.3.

Can any body help me.

Answer 1

In your SimpleChannelHandler implemented class, override the messageReceived method like following,

    @Override
    public void messageReceived(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, MessageEvent e) throws Exception {
        HttpRequest request = (HttpRequest) e.getMessage();
        ChannelBuffer content = request.getContent();
        LOGGER.info("Received Message[{}][{}]", request.getUri(), content.toString("UTF-8")); // Printing the URI and message body
    }

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content.toString("UTF-8") will give the body.

Answer 2

Just use:

((HttpMessage) e.getMessage()).getContent();

See [1].

[1] http://netty.io/docs/stable/api/org/jboss/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpMessage.html