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spring-integration/src/reference/docbook/stream.xml
Chris Beams f30da932e8 INT-2388 Update Gradle build
This is a significant update to the build system, including the changes
listed below. README.md has been updated with instructions on the most
important day-to-day commands.

 - Eliminate buildSrc submodule

   In favor of using the new bundlor and docbook-reference plugins. The
   net effect is a large reduction in number of lines of build code.
   Common docbook resources, stylesheets, etc are stored directly in the
   docbook plugin.

   This means that --recursive is no longer required when cloning and
   there will never be a need to use `git submodule` commands. README
   files have been updated to reflect.

   Use of the new bundlor plugin also means the removal of template.mf
   files from the source tree in favor of an inline approach. See
   build.gradle for details. Bundlor 'import templates' are built up
   programmatically and kept physically close to gradle dependency
   declarations, leading to more convenience when changing these values
   and hopefully fewer errors / version inconsistencies over time.

   Certain tests depended on the presence of template.mf files, all of
   which have recently been removed from the source tree in favor of the
   new bundlor plugin which allows for inlining bundlor configuration
   within the Gradle build script. These tests now create temp files
   using the java.io.File API instead.

 - Upgrade to Gradle 1.0-milestone-6

   The m6 release is significantly faster when resolving dependencies
   and has a number of valuable new features over the earlier m3
   version. Review the release notes for Gradle 1.0-milestone-6 online
   for full details.

 - Switch to repo.springsource.org repository

   Previously the project build declared as many repositories as
   necessary to resolve all project dependencies.

   Now depending on a single 'virtual repository' defined within the
   SpringSource Artifactory instance at http://repo.springsource.org.
   Currently, the virtual repository in use is 'libs-milestone', which
   allows for the resolution of all "milestone-or-better" versions of
   all S2 and third-party dependencies.

   Should snapshot dependencies become required, this value may be
   changed from 'libs-milestone' to 'libs-snapshot'. To build only
   against GA releases, change the value to 'libs-release'.

 - New build plan(s)

   Spring Integration build plans have been updated to use the
   Artifactory Bamboo plugin and publish to repo.springsource.org.
   Build plans have names like 2.1.x to reflect the version under
   development, not necessarily the name of the branch, as this may
   change over time and across major releases.

 - Improve release process

   As mentioned above, Spring Integration will now use the Artifactory
   Bamboo plugin to publish releases and also use Artifactory's support
   for pushing builds directly into Maven Central via oss.sonatype.org.

   Generate poms that contain all necessary fields for onboarding at
   Maven central (scm, developers, organization, licenses, etc).

   Generate -source and -javadoc poms to comply with Maven Central
   onboarding rules (and for general good practice anyway).

   Generation of PGP signatures, sha1 and md5 checksums are all handled
   automatically by Artifactory. These are also requirements for
   automated entry into Maven Central.

 - Remove source-level pom generation

   Automatic generation of Maven poms suitable for use in building
   Spring Integration is no longer supported. Generation and
   publication of poms for the purpose of dependency management remains
   supported.

   Sonar support has to date depended on these poms, but will be
   switched over to use the Gradle Sonar plugin shortly.

 - Eliminate docs subproject

   Move docs/src to the root of the project and eliminate docs as a
   formal subproject. This simplifies the build in a number of ways,
   including removing the need for distinguishing between 'subprojects'
   and 'javaprojects' as well as allowing users to build both 'api' and
   'reference' docs without qualifying with a ':docs' prefix.

   Also rename the src/info directory to src/dist to better reflect that
   these files are packaged with the distribution. For example, the
   readme.txt there is really the distribution readme, distinct from the
   README.md at the root of the project which is for building from source,
   etc.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="stream"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<title>Stream Support</title>
<section id="stream-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
In many cases application data is obtained from a stream. It is <emphasis>not</emphasis> recommended to send a reference to a Stream as a message payload to a consumer. Instead messages are created from data that is read from an input stream and message payloads are written to an output stream one by one.
</para>
</section>
<section id="stream-reading">
<title>Reading from streams</title>
<para>
Spring Integration provides two adapters for streams. Both <classname>ByteStreamReadingMessageSource</classname> and
<classname>CharacterStreamReadingMessageSource</classname> implement <interfacename>MessageSource</interfacename>.
By configuring one of these within a channel-adapter element, the polling period can be configured,
and the Message Bus can automatically detect and schedule them. The byte stream version requires an
<classname>InputStream</classname>, and the character stream version requires a <classname>Reader</classname> as
the single constructor argument. The <classname>ByteStreamReadingMessageSource</classname> also accepts the 'bytesPerMessage'
property to determine how many bytes it will attempt to read into each <interfacename>Message</interfacename>. The
default value is 1024
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<bean class="org.springframework.integration.stream.ByteStreamReadingMessageSource">
<constructor-arg ref="someInputStream"/>
<property name="bytesPerMessage" value="2048"/>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.integration.stream.CharacterStreamReadingMessageSource">
<constructor-arg ref="someReader"/>
</bean>]]>
</programlisting>
</para>
</section>
<section id="stream-writing">
<title>Writing to streams</title>
<para>
For target streams, there are also two implementations: <classname>ByteStreamWritingMessageHandler</classname> and
<classname>CharacterStreamWritingMessageHandler</classname>. Each requires a single constructor argument -
<classname>OutputStream</classname> for byte streams or <classname>Writer</classname> for character streams,
and each provides a second constructor that adds the optional 'bufferSize'. Since both of these
ultimately implement the <interfacename>MessageHandler</interfacename> interface, they can be referenced from a
<emphasis>channel-adapter</emphasis> configuration as described in more detail in
<xref linkend="channel-adapter"/>.
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<bean class="org.springframework.integration.stream.ByteStreamWritingMessageHandler">
<constructor-arg ref="someOutputStream"/>
<constructor-arg value="1024"/>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.integration.stream.CharacterStreamWritingMessageHandler">
<constructor-arg ref="someWriter"/>
</bean>]]>
</programlisting>
</para>
</section>
<section id="stream-namespace">
<title>Stream namespace support</title>
<para>
To reduce the configuration needed for stream related channel adapters there is a namespace defined. The following schema locations are needed to use it.
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns:int-stream="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/stream"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/stream
http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/stream/spring-integration-stream.xsd">]]></programlisting>
</para>
<para>
To configure the inbound channel adapter the following code snippet shows the different configuration options that are supported.
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<int-stream:stdin-channel-adapter id="adapterWithDefaultCharset"/>
<int-stream:stdin-channel-adapter id="adapterWithProvidedCharset" charset="UTF-8"/>]]></programlisting>
</para>
<para>
To configure the outbound channel adapter you can use the namespace support as well. The following code snippet shows the different configuration for an outbound channel adapters.
<programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[<int-stream:stdout-channel-adapter id="stdoutAdapterWithDefaultCharset" channel="testChannel"/>
<int-stream:stdout-channel-adapter id="stdoutAdapterWithProvidedCharset" charset="UTF-8" channel="testChannel"/>
<int-stream:stderr-channel-adapter id="stderrAdapter" channel="testChannel"/>
<int-stream:stdout-channel-adapter id="newlineAdapter" append-newline="true" channel="testChannel"/>
]]></programlisting>
</para>
</section>
</chapter>