Settings http_sink

• type: consumer
• input: binary messages

This is a consumer block that takes data from an incoming message and makes a POST request to the configured URL.

This block supports only incoming messages with type binary, so serialization of different message types must be handled in a preceding block.

For the time being, the delivery is best-effort (i.e. if a message is not delivered, it is discarded).

Properties

• url: The URL of the HTTP request. (required, string)
• headers: Http request headers. (optional, object with string values)
• ignore_ssl_errors: If true, ignore SSL errors that happen while performing the request. (optional, boolean)

url

url

The HTTP request URL such as "http://www.example.com/test".

headers

headers

An optional object with additional headers such as {authorization: "Bearer <token>"}.

Accepted input message

The HTTP request built by the http_sink can be customized by the input message with the following properties:

• data: the body of the request.
• type: is always binary.
• subtype: if present, it will be the value of the content-type HTTP header.

Examples

The following example uses http_sink block to send HTTP POST requests to http://www.example.com/test whenever a valid message is received.

[...]
| http_sink
  .url("http://www.example.com/test")