Important: This news article covers an old version of Javalin (v3.4.1). The current version is v6.7.0.
See the documentation page for up-to-date information.

RouteOverviewPlugin JSON

The RouteOverviewPlugin has been with Javalin since version 1.5.0. It’s a plugin which listens for routeAdded events and creates a HTML page displaying all the mapped routes:

Route overview

As of 3.4.1, this will be served as a JSON object if the client accepts json. You can enable the RouteOverviewPlugin like this:

Javalin.create(config ->
    config.registerPlugin(new RouteOverviewPlugin(path));        // show all routes on specified path
    config.registerPlugin(new RouteOverviewPlugin(path, roles)); // show all routes on specified path (with auth)
)

Thanks to @dherges for adding this feature.

Fixes

  • We’re now using the newly created Jvm-Brotli instead of jBrotli (thanks to @nixxcode).
  • The JavalinVue plugin now always uses UTF-8 for reading files. This fixes a bug when running on distroless docker images (or any OS which doesn’t use UTF-8 by default).
  • The JavalinVue#stateFunction is now a @JvmField.
  • If an EofException occurs in JavalinServlet or JettyResourceHandler it’s no longer logged. These exceptions occur if the client closes a connection before the response has been fully written (which is fine).
  • The WsContext class now has queryParam(key: String) (thanks to @bluedevil2k).