HTTP Server Adapter

The http_server adapter creates an http server and reads points from incoming http requests.

HTTP Server Adapter
- read http_server

read http_server

Read points by pushing the contents of http requests into the Juttle flowgraph

read http_server -port port
                 -method method
                 -timeField timeField
                 -separator character
                 -commentSymbol character
                 -ignoreEmptyLines true/false
                 -allowIncompleteLines true/false

Parameter	Description	Required?
`-port`	Port for HTTP Server to listen on	No; default: `8080`
`-method`	HTTP method to use Currently only supports `POST`or `PUT`	No; default: `POST`
`-timeField`	The name of the field to use as the time field The specified field will be renamed to `time`in the body of the HTTP request. If the points already contain a field called `time` that field is overwritten. This is useful when the source data contains a time field whose values are not valid time stamps.	No; defaults to keeping the `time`field as is
`-rootPath`	When the incoming data is JSON, use the specified path into the incoming object (expressed as `field1.field2` to emit points	No
`-separator`	When `-format 'csv'`is used, you can specify the separator between columns in a CSV file.	No: defaults to `,`
`-commentSymbol`	When `-format 'csv'`is used, you can specify the comment character that prefixes comment lines in a CSV file.	No: defaults to `,`
`-ignoreEmptyLines`	When `-format 'csv'`is used, you can skip empty lines in a CSV file.	No: defaults to `false`
`-allowIncompleteLines`	When `-format 'csv'`is used, you can allow for parsing of incomplete lines in a CSV file.	No: defaults to `false`

Currently the read http_server adapter will automatically parse incoming data based off of the content-type header. Here are the currently supported content-types:

* `text/csv`: for [CSV](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180) data
* `application/json` for [JSON](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159) data
* `application/json` for [JSON lines](http://jsonlines.org/) data

Example

Create a simple http server on port 2000.

/*
 * Create an http server on port 2000. View points in a table.
 *
 */

 read http_server -port 2000
 | view table;

Send points to server by running this curl command:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"hello": "world"}'  http://localhost:2000