The quarkus-google-cloud-functions-http extension allows you to write microservices with RESTEasy (JAX-RS), Undertow (servlet) or Vert.x Web, and make these microservices deployable to the Google Cloud Functions runtime.

One Google Cloud Functions deployment can represent any number of JAX-RS, servlet, or Vert.x Web endpoints.

This technology is considered preview.

In preview, backward compatibility and presence in the ecosystem is not guaranteed. Specific improvements might require to change configuration or APIs and plans to become stable are under way. Feedback is welcome on our mailing list or as issues in our GitHub issue tracker.

For a full list of possible extension statuses, check our FAQ entry.

Prerequisites

To complete this guide, you need:

Solution

This guide walks you through generating a sample project followed by creating three HTTP endpoints written with JAX-RS APIs, Servlet APIs or Vert.x Web APIs. Once built, you will be able to deploy the project to Google Cloud.

Creating the Maven Deployment Project

Create an application with the quarkus-google-cloud-functions-http extension. You can use the following Maven command to create it:

mvn io.quarkus:quarkus-maven-plugin:1.6.0.CR1:create \
    -DprojectGroupId=org.acme \
    -DprojectArtifactId=google-cloud-functions-http \
    -DclassName="org.acme.quickstart.GreetingResource" \
    -Dpath="/hello" \
    -Dextensions="google-cloud-functions-http,resteasy-json,undertow,vertx-web"

Login to Google Cloud

Login to Google Cloud is necessary for deploying the application and it can be done as follows:

gcloud auth login

At the time of this writing, Cloud Functions are still in beta so make sure to install the beta command group.

gcloud components install beta

Creating the endpoints

For this example project, we will create three endpoints, one for RESTEasy (JAX-RS), one for Undertow (Servlet) and one for Vert.x Web (reactive routes).

If you don’t need endpoints of each type, you can remove the corresponding extensions from your pom.xml.

The JAX-RS endpoint

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;

@Path("/hello")
public class GreetingResource {

    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    public String hello() {
        return "hello";
    }
}

The Servlet endpoint

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

@WebServlet(name = "ServletGreeting", urlPatterns = "/servlet/hello")
public class GreetingServlet extends HttpServlet {
    @Override
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException {
        resp.setStatus(200);
        resp.addHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain");
        resp.getWriter().write("hello");
    }

    @Override
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException {
        String name = req.getReader().readLine();
        resp.setStatus(200);
        resp.addHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain");
        resp.getWriter().write("hello " + name);
    }
}

The Vert.x Web endpoint

import static io.vertx.core.http.HttpMethod.GET;

import io.quarkus.vertx.web.Route;
import io.vertx.ext.web.RoutingContext;

public class GreetingRoutes {
    @Route(path = "/vertx/hello", methods = GET)
    void hello(RoutingContext context) {
        context.response().headers().set("Content-Type", "text/plain");
        context.response().setStatusCode(200).end("hello");
    }
}

Build and Deploy to Google Cloud

To build your application, you first need to define a packaging of type uber-jar via your application.properties.

quarkus.package.uber-jar=true

Package your application using the standard mvn clean package command. The result of the previous command is a single JAR file inside the target repository that contains classes and dependencies of the project.

To deploy your JAR to Google Cloud, you need to pass a directory with only this JAR inside it, to the gcloud utility.

So first, create a deployment directory and copy the generated artifact inside it.

mkdir deployment
cp target/google-cloud-functions-http-1.0-SNAPSHOT-runner.jar deployment/

Then you will be able to use gcloud to deploy your function to Google Cloud.

gcloud beta functions deploy quarkus-example-http \
  --entry-point=io.quarkus.gcp.functions.http.QuarkusHttpFunction \
  --runtime=java11 --trigger-http --source=deployment

The entry point must always be set to io.quarkus.gcp.functions.http.QuarkusHttpFunction as this is the class that integrates Cloud Functions with Quarkus.

The first time you launch this command, you can have the following error message:

ERROR: (gcloud.beta.functions.deploy) OperationError: code=7, message=Build Failed: Cloud Build has not been used in project <project_name> before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/cloudbuild.googleapis.com/overview?project=<my-project> then retry.

This means that Cloud Build is not activated yet. To overcome this error, open the URL shown in the error, follow the instructions and then wait a few minutes before retrying the command.

This command will give you as output a httpsTrigger.url that points to your function.

You can then call your endpoints via:

  • For JAX-RS: {httpsTrigger.url}/hello

  • For servlet: {httpsTrigger.url}/servlet/hello

  • For Vert.x Web: {httpsTrigger.url}/vertx/hello

Testing locally

The easiest way to locally test your function is using the Cloud Function invoker JAR.

You can download it via Maven using the following command:

mvn dependency:copy \
  -Dartifact='com.google.cloud.functions.invoker:java-function-invoker:1.0.0-beta1' \
  -DoutputDirectory=.

Then you can use it to launch your function locally.

java -jar java-function-invoker-1.0.0-beta1.jar \
  --classpath target/google-cloud-functions-http-1.0-SNAPSHOT-runner.jar \
  --target io.quarkus.gcp.functions.http.QuarkusHttpFunction

Your endpoints will be available on http://localhost:8080.