Package edu.ucsb.cs156.example.controllers

Class FrontendProxyController

java.lang.Object

edu.ucsb.cs156.example.controllers.FrontendProxyController

@Profile("development")
@RestController
public class FrontendProxyController
extends Object

The FrontendProxyController is used to proxy requests to the frontend of the application. This is only used in development where we have a separate frontend server process listening on port 3000. For production, see the FrontendController.

See Also:

• FrontendController

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
FrontendProxyController()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity<?>	proxy(org.springframework.cloud.gateway.mvc.ProxyExchange<byte[]> proxy)	This method proxies requests to the frontend server.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

FrontendProxyController

public FrontendProxyController()

Method Details

proxy

@GetMapping({"/","/{path:^(?!api|oauth2|swagger-ui|h2-console).*}/**"})
public org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity<?> proxy(org.springframework.cloud.gateway.mvc.ProxyExchange<byte[]> proxy)

This method proxies requests to the frontend server. It is only used in development. The regular expression is used to exclude the paths that should NOT be proxied to the frontend server, such as the endpoints for the api, oauth2, and swagger-ui.

Parameters:

proxy - the proxy exchange, injected by Spring automatically

Returns:

response entity with the response from the frontend server, or a response entity with instructions in case the frontend server cannot be reached.