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title: Quick start with http description: Quick start with http

This document introduces how to quickly access the Soul Gateway using Http. You can get the code example of this document by clicking here.

Environment to prepare

Please refer to the setup and launch soul-admin and soul-bootstrap.

Introducing gateway to HTTP proxy plugin

• Add the following dependencies to the soul-bootstrap's pom.xml file:

<!--if you use http proxy start this-->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.dromara</groupId>
    <artifactId>soul-spring-boot-starter-plugin-divide</artifactId>
    <version>${last.version}</version>
</dependency>

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

Run the soul-examples-http project

Downloadsoul-examples-http

Execute the org.dromara.soul.examples.http.SoulTestHttpApplication main method to start project.

The following log appears when the startup is successful:

2021-02-10 00:57:07.561  INFO 3700 --- [pool-1-thread-1] o.d.s.client.common.utils.RegisterUtils  : http client register success: {"appName":"http","context":"/http","path":"/http/test/**","pathDesc":"","rpcType":"http","host":"192.168.50.13","port":8188,"ruleName":"/http/test/**","enabled":true,"registerMetaData":false} 
2021-02-10 00:57:07.577  INFO 3700 --- [pool-1-thread-1] o.d.s.client.common.utils.RegisterUtils  : http client register success: {"appName":"http","context":"/http","path":"/http/order/save","pathDesc":"Save order","rpcType":"http","host":"192.168.50.13","port":8188,"ruleName":"/http/order/save","enabled":true,"registerMetaData":false} 
2021-02-10 00:57:07.587  INFO 3700 --- [pool-1-thread-1] o.d.s.client.common.utils.RegisterUtils  : http client register success: {"appName":"http","context":"/http","path":"/http/order/path/**/name","pathDesc":"","rpcType":"http","host":"192.168.50.13","port":8188,"ruleName":"/http/order/path/**/name","enabled":true,"registerMetaData":false} 
2021-02-10 00:57:07.596  INFO 3700 --- [pool-1-thread-1] o.d.s.client.common.utils.RegisterUtils  : http client register success: {"appName":"http","context":"/http","path":"/http/order/findById","pathDesc":"Find by id","rpcType":"http","host":"192.168.50.13","port":8188,"ruleName":"/http/order/findById","enabled":true,"registerMetaData":false} 
2021-02-10 00:57:07.606  INFO 3700 --- [pool-1-thread-1] o.d.s.client.common.utils.RegisterUtils  : http client register success: {"appName":"http","context":"/http","path":"/http/order/path/**","pathDesc":"","rpcType":"http","host":"192.168.50.13","port":8188,"ruleName":"/http/order/path/**","enabled":true,"registerMetaData":false} 
2021-02-10 00:57:08.023  INFO 3700 --- [           main] o.s.b.web.embedded.netty.NettyWebServer  : Netty started on port(s): 8188
2021-02-10 00:57:08.026  INFO 3700 --- [           main] o.d.s.e.http.SoulTestHttpApplication     : Started SoulTestHttpApplication in 2.555 seconds (JVM running for 3.411) 

Enable the Divide plugin to handle HTTP requests

• enabled the divide plugin in the soul-admin plugin management.

Testing http request

The soul-examples-http project will automatically register interface methods annotated with @SoulSpringMvcClient in the soul gateway after successful startup.

Open Plugin Management -> divide to see the list of plugin rule configurations

Use PostMan to simulate HTTP to request your http service