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sidebar_position: 4 title: Sofa Plugin keywords: [“sofa”] description: sofa access soul gateway

Description

• The sofa plug-in is a plug-in that converts the HTTP protocol into the sofa protocol, and it is also the key to the gateway to realize the sofa generalization call.
• sThe sofa plug-in needs to cooperate with metadata to realize the call of Dubbo. Please refer to: Metadata。

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.dromara</groupId>
    <artifactId>soul-spring-boot-starter-plugin-sofa</artifactId>
    <version>${last.version}</version>
</dependency>

Plugin Settings

• First, go to soul-admin --> plug-in management-> setting sofa is open.
• Then, in the configuration of sofa plug-in, config sofa's register center like this:

{"protocol":"zookeeper","register":"127.0.0.1:2181"}

• The plug-in needs to be used with a dependent starter. For details, please see: user-sofa.

• Selector's rules，see : selector。

Plugin Metadata

• Each sofa interface method corresponds to a piece of metadata, which can be viewed in the soul-admin > metadata management.
• url: It's your http urls.
• RPC extension parameter, corresponding to some configuration of sofa interface.If you wanna be modify it, please modify it here. Support JSON format. The following fields:

{"loadbalance":"hash","retries":3,"timeout":-1}