host

Filter requests matching conditions against the hostname part of the Host header value in the request.

def host(hostNames: String*): Directive0
def host(predicate: String => Boolean): Directive0
def host(regex: Regex): Directive1[String]

Description

The def host(regex: Regex) overloadregular expression matching works a little bit different: it rejects all requests with a hostname that doesn’t have a prefix matching the given regular expression and also extracts a String to its inner route following this rules:

• For all matching requests the prefix string matching the regex is extracted and passed to the inner route.
• If the regex contains a capturing group only the string matched by this group is extracted.
• If the regex contains more than one capturing group an IllegalArgumentException is thrown.

Example

Matching a list of hosts:

Scala

copysourceval route =
  host("api.company.com", "rest.company.com") {
    complete("Ok")
  }

// tests:
Get() ~> Host("rest.company.com") ~> route ~> check {
  status shouldEqual OK
  responseAs[String] shouldEqual "Ok"
}

Get() ~> Host("notallowed.company.com") ~> route ~> check {
  handled shouldBe false
}

Java

copysourceimport static akka.http.javadsl.server.Directives.complete;
import static akka.http.javadsl.server.Directives.host;

final Route matchListOfHosts = host(
    Arrays.asList("api.company.com", "rest.company.com"),
    () -> complete(StatusCodes.OK));

testRoute(matchListOfHosts).run(HttpRequest.GET("/").addHeader(Host.create("api.company.com")))
    .assertStatusCode(StatusCodes.OK);

Making sure the host satisfies the given predicate

Scala

copysourceval shortOnly: String => Boolean = (hostname) => hostname.length < 10

val route =
  host(shortOnly) {
    complete("Ok")
  }

// tests:
Get() ~> Host("short.com") ~> route ~> check {
  status shouldEqual OK
  responseAs[String] shouldEqual "Ok"
}

Get() ~> Host("verylonghostname.com") ~> route ~> check {
  handled shouldBe false
}

Java

copysourceimport static akka.http.javadsl.server.Directives.complete;
import static akka.http.javadsl.server.Directives.host;

final Route shortOnly = host(hostname -> hostname.length() < 10,
    () -> complete(StatusCodes.OK));

testRoute(shortOnly).run(HttpRequest.GET("/").addHeader(Host.create("short.com")))
    .assertStatusCode(StatusCodes.OK);

testRoute(shortOnly).run(HttpRequest.GET("/").addHeader(Host.create("verylonghostname.com")))
    .assertStatusCode(StatusCodes.NOT_FOUND);

Using a regular expressions:

Scala

copysourceval route =
  concat(
    host("api|rest".r) { prefix =>
      complete(s"Extracted prefix: $prefix")
    },
    host("public.(my|your)company.com".r) { captured =>
      complete(s"You came through $captured company")
    }
  )

// tests:
Get() ~> Host("api.company.com") ~> route ~> check {
  status shouldEqual OK
  responseAs[String] shouldEqual "Extracted prefix: api"
}

Get() ~> Host("public.mycompany.com") ~> route ~> check {
  status shouldEqual OK
  responseAs[String] shouldEqual "You came through my company"
}

Java

copysourceimport akka.http.javadsl.server.Directives;

import static akka.http.javadsl.server.Directives.host;


final Route hostPrefixRoute = host(Pattern.compile("api|rest"), prefix -> 
    complete("Extracted prefix: " + prefix));

final Route hostPartRoute = host(Pattern.compile("public.(my|your)company.com"), captured ->
    complete("You came through " + captured
        + " company"));

final Route route = Directives.concat(hostPrefixRoute, hostPartRoute);

testRoute(route).run(HttpRequest.GET("/").addHeader(Host.create("api.company.com")))
    .assertStatusCode(StatusCodes.OK).assertEntity("Extracted prefix: api");

testRoute(route).run(HttpRequest.GET("/").addHeader(Host.create("public.mycompany.com")))
    .assertStatusCode(StatusCodes.OK)
    .assertEntity("You came through my company");

Beware that in the case of introducing multiple capturing groups in the regex such as in the case bellow, the directive will fail at runtime, at the moment the route tree is evaluated for the first time. This might cause your http handler actor to enter in a fail/restart loop depending on your supervision strategy.

Scala

copysourcean[IllegalArgumentException] should be thrownBy {
  host("server-([0-9]).company.(com|net|org)".r) { target =>
    complete("Will never complete :'(")
  }
}

Java

copysource// this will throw IllegalArgumentException
final Route hostRegex = host(Pattern.compile("server-([0-9]).company.(com|net|org)"), s ->
    // will not reach here
    complete(s)
);