ring-jetty9-adapter (rj9a)

Ring adapter for Jetty 12 and 11 (although named as jetty9), with HTTP/2, WebSocket, experimental HTTP/3 and virtual threads support.

This is a simple and plain wrapper on modern Jetty versions. It doesn't introduce additional thread model or anything else (no unofficial ring variance, no core.async). You are free to add those on top of our base API. This library can be used as a drop-in replacement of original ring-jetty-adapter.

As of Ring 1.6, the official Jetty adapter has been updated to Jetty 9.2. However, rj9a tracks most recent Jetty release and offers additional features like http/2, http/3 and websocket.

Version Matrix

rj9a works on top of certain components of Java/Clojure ecosystem. To find a version works for your stack, check the version matrix below.

rj9a	Jetty	JDK	Clojure	Servlet API	Ring API	Maintained?
HEAD	12.0.x	17	1.12	N/A	1.12	true
0.33.x	12.0.x	17	1.11	N/A	1.12	false
0.32.x	12.0.x	17	1.11	N/A	1.11	false
0.30.x	12.0.x	17	1.11	N/A	1.10	false
0.22.x	11.0.x	11	1.11	Jakarta 5.0	1.10	false
0.17.x	10.0.x	11	1.10	Jakarta 4.0	1.9	false
0.14.x	9.4.x	8	1.10	3.1	1.8	false

The master branch will keep tracking Jetty 12 as our default release channel. Jetty versions prior to 12 have reached their EOF (support is only available with commercial version), so now we are dropping support of them. But you can still use it.

Note that from 0.33 of rj9a, we dropped dependencies to ring/ring-core and only depend on their protocol artifacts. This won't be a problem if your applications are just normal ring sync or async handlers. However, for websocket users, you will need to include ring/ring-core explicitly as dependency to be able to use websocket APIs.

For JDK 8 users, 0.14 releases should be usable but I'm no longer actively maintaining it.

Usage

Leiningen

Code

In the REPL:

(require '[ring.adapter.jetty9 :refer [run-jetty]])
(run-jetty app {:port 50505}) ;; same as the 'official' adapter

In ns declaration:

(ns my.server
  (:require [ring.adapter.jetty9 :refer [run-jetty]]))

Ring 1.6 async handler

(require '[ring.adapter.jetty9 :refer [run-jetty]])

(defn app [request send-response raise-error]
  (send-response {:body "It works!"}))
(run-jetty app {:port 50505 :async? true})

HTTP/2

HTTP/2 becomes an optional feature since rj9a 0.35, to enable HTTP/2 on cleartext and secure transport, first you need to add our optional dependency:

[info.sunng/ring-jetty9-adapter-http2 "VERSION"]

VERSION can be checked here

Second, provide HTTP/2 options to run-jetty like:

(jetty/run-jetty dummy-app {:port 5000
                            :h2c? true  ;; enable cleartext http/2
                            :h2? true   ;; enable http/2
                            :ssl? true  ;; ssl is required for http/2
                            :ssl-port 5443
                            :keystore "dev-resources/keystore.jks"
                            :key-password "111111"
                            :keystore-type "jks"})

ALPN dependency is required for secure HTTP/2 transport. For rj9a version 0.17.1 and newer, org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-alpn-java-server is included by default.

For rj9a versions prior to 0.17, you will need additional dependency to enable ALPN. Add following dependencies according to the JDK version you use.

• For JDK 11 and above, add [org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-alpn-java-server ~jetty-version]
• For OpenJDK 8u252 and above, add [org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-alpn-openjdk8-server ~jetty-version]
• For OpenJDK 8 prior to update 252, please check example-http2-legacy profile in project.clj for boot-classpath configuration
• For any version of JDK users, conscrypt implementation is supported by adding [org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-alpn-conscrypt-server ~jetty-version] but it's not recommended for now because of memory leak issue

Note your will need to replace ~jetty-version with corresponding jetty version that your version of rj9a uses.

HTTP/3

From 10.0.9, Jetty ships an experimental HTTP/3 implementation based on Jetty's own build of the quiche library. rj9a 0.17.6 made it an optional feature. To enable HTTP/3 support, you will need to:

• In addition to rj9a, add dependency [info.sunng/ring-jetty9-adapter-http3 "VERSION"] to your clojure project to bring in HTTP/3 staff. Remember to replace VERSION with our latest release, which can be checked here
• Provide certficate and key just like HTTPs setup because HTTP/3 is secure by default. There is no plaintext fallback for now.
• Provide option :http3? true and a work directory to for pem :http3-pem-work-directory to run-jetty to enable HTTP/3 protocol.

(jetty/run-jetty dummy-app {:port 5000  ;; default clear-text http/1.1 port
                            :http3 true  ;; enable http/3 support
                            :http3-pem-work-directory "/some/path" ;; a pre-created directory for quic configuration
                            :ssl-port 5443 ;; ssl-port is used by http/3
                            :keystore "dev-resources/keystore.jks"
                            :key-password "111111"
                            :keystore-type "jks"})

Since HTTP/3 runs on UDP, it is possible to share the same port with TCP based protocol like HTTP/2 or 1.1.

An example is available in examples folder.

WebSocket

From Ring 1.11, Websocket API has been standardized. A valid websocket handler can be defined as a map of listener functions:

(def ws-handler {:on-open (fn [ws])
                 :on-error (fn [ws e])
                 :on-close (fn [ws status-code reason])
                 :on-message (fn [ws message])
                 :on-ping (fn [ws bytebuffer])
                 :on-pong (fn [ws bytebuffer])})

Functions are provided in ring.websocket to read and write data on the ws value:

• (ring.websocket/send ws msg)
• (ring.websocket/send ws msg succeed-callback fail-callback)
• (ring.websocket/ping ws msg)
• (ring.websocket/close ws)

Notice that we support different type of msg:

• String: send text websocket message
• ByteBuffer: send binary websocket message

In your ring app, detect a websocket handshake request and upgrade it with a websocket handler.

(require '[ring.adapter.jetty9 :as jetty])

(defn app [req]
  (if (jetty/ws-upgrade-request? req)
    (jetty/ws-upgrade-response ws-handler)))

(run-jetty app)

In the javascript:

// remember to add the trailing slash.
// Otherwise, jetty will return a 302 on websocket upgrade request,
// which is not supported by most browsers.
var ws = new WebSocket("ws://somehost/loc/");
ws.onopen = ....

If you want to omit the trailing slash from your URLs (and not receive a redirect from Jetty), you can start the server like:

(run-jetty app {:allow-null-path-info true})

Websocket Handshake

Sometimes you may have a negotiation with the websocket client on the handshake (upgrade request) phase. You can define a ring like function that returns the websocket handler, or raises an error. You may also select a subprotocol from (:websocket-subprotocol upgrade-request) via the websocket handler creator function. See websocket example for detail.

Examples

You can find examples in examples folder. To run example:

• http: lein with-profile example-http run a very basic example of ring handler
• async: lein with-profile example-async run ring 1.6 async handler example
• http2: lein with-profile example-http2 run
• http3: lein with-profile example-http3 run
• websocket: lein with-profile example-websocket run

License

Copyright © 2013-2024 Sun Ning

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.

Sponsors

This project is sponsored by:

• TOYOKUMO sponsored this project in Thanks OSS Award program.