Create and Connect a Micronaut Application to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage

This guide describes how to create a Micronaut application that demonstrates how to store, retrieve, and delete user profile pictures in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage using Micronaut Object Storage.

The Micronaut Object Storage API provides a uniform API to create, read, and delete objects in the major cloud providers:

• Amazon S3
• Google Cloud Storage
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage

Using this API enables the creation of truly multicloud, portable applications.

Prerequisites #

• JDK 17 or higher. See Setting up Your Desktop.
• An Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account. See Setting up Your Cloud Accounts.
• The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI installed with local access configured.
• An Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compartment with appropriate permission granted to your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure user account to manage the Object Storage family in the compartment.
• The GCN CLI. See Setting up Your Desktop. (Optional.)

Follow the steps below to create the application from scratch. However, you can also download the completed example in Java:

A note regarding your development environment

Consider using Visual Studio Code that provides native support for developing applications with the Graal Cloud Native Tools extension.

Note: If you use IntelliJ IDEA, enable annotation processing.

1. Create the Application #

Create an application using the GCN Launcher.

1. Open the GCN Launcher in advanced mode.

2. Create a new project using the following selections. (Alternatively, use these shortcuts for Maven or Gradle.)
   • Project Type: Application (Default)
   • Project Name: oci-storage-demo
   • Base Package: com.example (Default)
   • Clouds: OCI
   • Language: Java (Default)
   • Build Tool: Gradle (Groovy) or Maven
   • Test Framework: JUnit (Default)
   • Java Version: 17 (Default)
   • Micronaut Version: (Default)
   • Cloud Services: Object Storage
   • Features: GraalVM Native Image (Default)
   • Sample Code: Yes (Default)
3. Click Generate Project. The GCN Launcher creates an application with the default package com.example in a directory named oci-storage-demo. The application ZIP file will be downloaded in your default downloads directory. Unzip it, open in your code editor, and proceed to the next steps.

Alternatively, use the GCN CLI as follows:

gcn create-app com.example.oci-storage-demo \
  --clouds=oci \
  --services=objectstore \
  --features=graalvm \
  --build=gradle \
  --lang=java

gcn create-app com.example.oci-storage-demo \
  --clouds=oci \
  --services=objectstore \
  --features=graalvm \
  --build=maven \
  --lang=java

For more information, see Using the GCN CLI.

2. ProfilePicturesController #

The launcher created an interface with the endpoints of the “profile pictures” microservice in a file named lib/src/main/java/com/example/ProfilePicturesApi.java:

package com.example;

import io.micronaut.http.HttpRequest;
import io.micronaut.http.HttpResponse;
import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Delete;
import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Get;
import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Post;
import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Status;
import io.micronaut.http.multipart.CompletedFileUpload;
import io.micronaut.http.server.types.files.StreamedFile;

import java.util.Optional;

import static io.micronaut.http.HttpStatus.NO_CONTENT;
import static io.micronaut.http.MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA;

public interface ProfilePicturesApi {

    @Post(uri = "/{userId}", consumes = MULTIPART_FORM_DATA) // <1>
    HttpResponse<?> upload(CompletedFileUpload fileUpload, String userId, HttpRequest<?> request);

    @Get("/{userId}") // <2>
    Optional<HttpResponse<StreamedFile>> download(String userId);

    @Status(NO_CONTENT) // <3>
    @Delete("/{userId}") // <4>
    void delete(String userId);
}

1 The @Post annotation maps the method to an HTTP POST request.

2 The @Get annotation maps the method to an HTTP GET request.

3 You can return void in your controller’s method and specify the HTTP status code via the @Status annotation.

4 The @Delete annotation maps the delete method to an HTTP Delete request on /{userId}.

The launcher also created the ProfilePicturesController class that implements the ProfilePicturesApi interface in a file named lib/src/main/java/com/example/ProfilePicturesController.java. It contains the class definition and constructor:

package com.example;

import io.micronaut.http.HttpRequest;
import io.micronaut.http.HttpResponse;
import io.micronaut.http.MutableHttpResponse;
import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Controller;
import io.micronaut.http.multipart.CompletedFileUpload;
import io.micronaut.http.server.types.files.StreamedFile;
import io.micronaut.http.server.util.HttpHostResolver;
import io.micronaut.http.uri.UriBuilder;
import io.micronaut.objectstorage.ObjectStorageEntry;
import io.micronaut.objectstorage.ObjectStorageOperations;
import io.micronaut.objectstorage.request.UploadRequest;
import io.micronaut.objectstorage.response.UploadResponse;
import io.micronaut.scheduling.TaskExecutors;
import io.micronaut.scheduling.annotation.ExecuteOn;

import java.net.URI;
import java.util.Optional;

import static io.micronaut.http.HttpHeaders.ETAG;
import static io.micronaut.http.MediaType.IMAGE_JPEG_TYPE;

@Controller(ProfilePicturesController.PREFIX) // <1>
@ExecuteOn(TaskExecutors.IO) // <2>
class ProfilePicturesController implements ProfilePicturesApi {

    static final String PREFIX = "/pictures";

    private final ObjectStorageOperations<?, ?, ?> objectStorage; // <3>
    private final HttpHostResolver httpHostResolver; // <4>

    ProfilePicturesController(ObjectStorageOperations<?, ?, ?> objectStorage,
                              HttpHostResolver httpHostResolver) {
        this.objectStorage = objectStorage;
        this.httpHostResolver = httpHostResolver;
    }
}

1 The class is defined as a controller with the @Controller annotation mapped to the path /pictures.

2 It is critical that any blocking I/O operations (such as fetching the data from the database) are offloaded to a separate thread pool that does not block the event loop.

3 ObjectStorageOperations provides a uniform API to create, read and delete objects in the major cloud providers.

4 HttpHostResolver enables you to resolve the host for an HTTP request.

2.1. Upload Endpoint #

The launcher also generated the /upload endpoint which receives the file from the HTTP client via CompletedFileUpload, and the userId path parameter. It uploads the file to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage using ObjectStorageOperations, and then returns its ETag in an HTTP response header to the client:

@Override
public HttpResponse<?> upload(CompletedFileUpload fileUpload,
                              String userId,
                              HttpRequest<?> request) {
    String key = buildKey(userId); // <1>
    UploadRequest objectStorageUpload = UploadRequest.fromCompletedFileUpload(fileUpload, key); // <2>
    UploadResponse<?> response = objectStorage.upload(objectStorageUpload); // <3>

    return HttpResponse
            .created(location(request, userId)) // <4>
            .header(ETAG, response.getETag()); // <5>
}

private static String buildKey(String userId) {
    return userId + ".jpg";
}

private URI location(HttpRequest<?> request, String userId) {
    return UriBuilder.of(httpHostResolver.resolve(request))
            .path(PREFIX)
            .path(userId)
            .build();
}

1 The key represents the path under which the file will be stored.

2 You can use any of the UploadRequest static methods to build an upload request.

3 The upload operation returns an UploadResponse, which wraps the cloud-specific SDK response.

4 Return the absolute URL of the resource in the location header.

5 The response object contains some common properties for all cloud vendors, such as the ETag, that is sent in a header to the client.

2.2. Download Endpoint #

The generated /download endpoint simply retrieves the entry from the expected key, and transforms it into a StreamedFile:

@Override
public Optional<HttpResponse<StreamedFile>> download(String userId) {
    String key = buildKey(userId);
    return objectStorage.retrieve(key) // <1>
            .map(ProfilePicturesController::buildStreamedFile); // <2>
}

private static HttpResponse<StreamedFile> buildStreamedFile(ObjectStorageEntry<?> entry) {
    StreamedFile file = new StreamedFile(entry.getInputStream(), IMAGE_JPEG_TYPE).attach(entry.getKey());
    MutableHttpResponse<Object> httpResponse = HttpResponse.ok();
    file.process(httpResponse);
    return httpResponse.body(file);
}

1 The retrieve operation returns a cloud-independent ObjectStorageEntry.

2 Transform the cloud-specific storage entry into an HttpResponse<StreamedFile>.

The HTTP client could have used the ETag from the upload operation and sent it in a If-None-Match header in the download request to implement caching, which then would have been to be implemented in the download endpoint. But this is beyond the scope of this guide.

2.3. Delete Endpoint #

For the /delete endpoint, all you have to do is invoke the delete method with the expected key:

@Override
public void delete(String userId) {
    String key = buildKey(userId);
    objectStorage.delete(key);
}

3. Set Up Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Resources #

1. Create a bucket named “gcn-guide-object-storage” by following the steps in Creating a Bucket. (When prompted, accept the default options.)

2. Click the name of the bucket to view its details. From the Bucket Information tab, make a note of its Namespace.

3. Ensure that you can see the table of the bucket’s Objects. (It should be empty.)

4. Micronaut requires values for the name of the bucket and its namespace, so provide them as environment variables, as follows:

    export OBJECT_STORAGE_BUCKET=gcn-guide-object-storage
    export OBJECT_STORAGE_NAMESPACE=<namespace>
   

3.1 Configure the Upload Parameters (Optional) #

To upload a file larger than 1MB, configure the file oci/src/main/resources/application-oraclecloud.properties as follows:

# 20MB = 20 * 1024 * 1024b = 20971520b
micronaut.server.multipart.max-file-size=20971520

4. Run the Application #

To run the application, use the following command(s), which starts the application on port 8080.

./gradlew :oci:run

./mvnw install -pl lib -am 
./mvnw mn:run -pl oci

5. Test the Application #

Test the application by uploading, downloading, and deleting a user profile picture.

5.1. Upload a Profile Picture #

1. Assuming you have a profile picture in a local file named profile.jpg, you can upload it to your application using the following command:

    curl -i -F "fileUpload=@profile.jpg" http://localhost:8080/pictures/user_name
   

    HTTP/1.1 201 Created
    location: http://localhost:8080/pictures/user_name
    ETag: "617cb82e296e153c29b34cccf7af0908"
    date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:50:30 GMT
    connection: keep-alive
    transfer-encoding: chunked
   

   Note the location and ETag headers.

2. Refresh the Bucket Details page: you should see the profile picture listed in the Objects table.

5.2. Download a Profile Picture #

Use the following command to download a picture:

curl http://localhost:8080/pictures/user_name -O -J

The file will be saved as user_name.jpg because the download endpoint includes a Content-Disposition: attachment header. Open it to check that it is the same image as profile.jpg.

5.3. Delete a Profile Picture #

1. Use the following command to delete a picture:

    curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8080/pictures/user_name
   

2. Check that the file has actually been deleted by refreshing the Bucket Details page: you should see that the Objects table is again empty.

6. Generate a Native Executable Using GraalVM #

GCN supports compiling a Java application ahead-of-time into a native executable using GraalVM Native Image. You can use the Gradle plugin for GraalVM Native Image building/Maven plugin for GraalVM Native Image building. Packaged as a native executable, it significantly reduces application startup time and memory footprint.

To generate a native executable, run the following command(s):

./gradlew :oci:nativeCompile

oci/build/native/nativeCompile/oci

./mvnw install -pl lib -am 
./mvnw package -pl oci -Dpackaging=native-image

oci/target/oci

7. Run and Test the Native Executable #

Run the native executable, and then perform the same tests as in step 5.

8. Clean Up #

When you have completed the guide, remove the bucket from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to avoid stale resources. Follow the steps in Deleting a Bucket.

Summary #

This guide demonstrated how to create a Java application to store, retrieve, and delete user profile pictures in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage.

Related Documentation #

• Micronaut Object Storage
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
• GraalVM Native Image