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title: Motan Plugin keywords: [“motan-plugin”] description: motan-plugin

Description

• The motan plugin is a plugin that converts the Http protocol into the motan protocol.

Plugin Setting

• Add related dependencies and enable plugin, please refer to: Quick start with Motan .

• Motan client access, please refer to: Motan Proxy .

Plugin Detail

After the client accesses the Apache ShenYu gateway, it will automatically register the selector and rule information.

You can see it in PluginList -> rpc proxy -> motan. For details about the selector and rule configuration, see Selector And Rule Config .

Metadata

Each motan interface method, will correspond to a metadata, when the motan application client access to the Apache ShenYu gateway, will be automatically registered, can be viewed in the shenyu-admin background management system of the BasicConfig --> Metadata management.

• AppName: specifies the name of the application to which the metadata belongs.

• MethodName: the name of the method to call.

• Path: http request path.

• PathDescribe: the description of the path is easy to view.

• ParamsType: the parameters are separated by commas (,) in the order of interface parameter types.

• RpcExpand: description of each interface in a motan service. For example, here is the interface information for the motan service:

{
  "methodInfo": [
    {
      "methodName": "hello",
      "params": [
        {
          "left": "java.lang.String",
          "right": "name"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "group": "motan-shenyu-rpc"
}

• Interface: The fully qualified class name of the motan interface.

• RpcType：choose motan.