How to create a Spring Reactor Flux from Http inte

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With one difference that messages come from Http endpoint rather than JMS queue. The problem is that Message Channel is not get populated for some reason or it is not picked up by Flux.from(). The log entries show that GenericMessage is created from Http Integration flow with a payload as path variable but does not get enqueued/published to a channel? I tried .channel(MessageChannels.queue()) and .channel(MessageChannels.publishSubscribe()) does not make any difference, event stream is empty. Here is the code:

@Bean
public Publisher<Message<String>> httpReactiveSource() {
        return IntegrationFlows.
                from(Http.inboundChannelAdapter("/eventmessage/{id}")
                        .requestMapping(r -> r
                        .methods(HttpMethod.POST)                                                                                   
                        )
                        .payloadExpression("#pathVariables.id")
                        )                           
                        .channel(MessageChannels.queue())
                        .log(LoggingHandler.Level.DEBUG)                            
                        .log()  
                        .toReactivePublisher();
    }


@GetMapping(value="eventmessagechannel/{id}", produces=MediaType.TEXT_EVENT_STREAM_VALUE)
public Flux<String> eventMessages(@PathVariable String id){     
    return Flux.from(httpReactiveSource())              
            .map(Message::getPayload);

}

UPDATE1:

build.gradle

buildscript {
    ext {
        springBootVersion = '2.0.0.M2'
    }
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        maven { url "https://repo.spring.io/snapshot" }
        maven { url "https://repo.spring.io/milestone" }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}")
    }
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'
apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'

version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    maven { url "https://repo.spring.io/snapshot" }
    maven { url "https://repo.spring.io/milestone" }
}


dependencies {
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-freemarker')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-integration') 
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-webflux') 
    compile('org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-http')
    testCompile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test')
    testCompile('io.projectreactor:reactor-test')

}

UPDATE2

It works when @SpringBootApplication and @RestController are defined in one file, but stops to work when @SpringBootApplication and @RestController are in separate files.

TestApp.java

package com.example;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;


@SpringBootApplication
public class TestApp {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
            SpringApplication.run(TestApp.class, args);
    }
}

TestController.java

package com.example.controller;


import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.reactivestreams.Publisher;
import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
import org.springframework.integration.dsl.IntegrationFlows;
import org.springframework.integration.dsl.channel.MessageChannels;
import org.springframework.integration.handler.LoggingHandler;
import org.springframework.integration.http.dsl.Http;
import org.springframework.messaging.Message;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;



import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import reactor.core.publisher.Flux;



@RestController
public class TestController {
     @Bean
        public Publisher<Message<String>> httpReactiveSource() {
            return IntegrationFlows.
                    from(Http.inboundChannelAdapter("/message/{id}")
                            .requestMapping(r -> r
                                    .methods(HttpMethod.POST)
                            )
                            .payloadExpression("#pathVariables.id")
                    )
                    .channel(MessageChannels.queue())
                    .toReactivePublisher();
        }

        @GetMapping(value = "/events", produces = MediaType.TEXT_EVENT_STREAM_VALUE)
        public Flux<String> eventMessages() {
            return Flux.from(httpReactiveSource())
                    .map(Message::getPayload);
        }

}

This works for me well:

@SpringBootApplication
@RestController
public class SpringIntegrationSseDemoApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(SpringIntegrationSseDemoApplication.class, args);
    }

    @Bean
    public Publisher<Message<String>> httpReactiveSource() {
        return IntegrationFlows.
                from(Http.inboundChannelAdapter("/message/{id}")
                        .requestMapping(r -> r
                                .methods(HttpMethod.POST)
                        )
                        .payloadExpression("#pathVariables.id")
                )
                .channel(MessageChannels.queue())
                .toReactivePublisher();
    }

    @GetMapping(value = "/events", produces = MediaType.TEXT_EVENT_STREAM_VALUE)
    public Flux<String> eventMessages() {
        return Flux.from(httpReactiveSource())
                .map(Message::getPayload);
    }

}

I have this dependencies in POM:

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-integration</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-webflux</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.integration</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-integration-http</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

I run the app and have two terminals:

curl http://localhost:8080/events

to listen to SSEs.

And in the second one I perform this:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/message/foo

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/message/bar

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/message/666

So, the first terminal responds like:

data:foo

data:bar

data:666

Note, we don't need spring-boot-starter-webflux dependency. The Flux to SSE works well with regular MVC on the Servlet Container.

Spring Integration will support WebFlux soon, too: https://jira.spring.io/browse/INT-4300. So, you will be able to configure there something like:

   IntegrationFlows
    .from(Http.inboundReactiveGateway("/sse")
                        .requestMapping(m -> m.produces(MediaType.TEXT_EVENT_STREAM_VALUE)))

And fully rely just only WebFlux without any Servlet Container dependencies.