Reference Doc - Make Http Components sections more generic [INT-2456]

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Gunnar Hillert opened INT-2456 and commented

The chapter on the HTTP Support (Chapter 15) is a bit confusing.

http://static.springsource.org/spring-integration/reference/html/http.html

We have 4 Http Components but the main chapter-headlines only name Inbound/Outbound gateways. The Inbound and Outbound Channel Adapters are only mentioned in passing and in the provided samples.

Furthermore, treating Gateways/Channel Adapters together is problematic, as an Outbound Gateway has semantically a different meaning compared to an Outbound Channel Adapter. For instance: I can use an Outbound Gateway to retrieve Data, not just send data. Therefore we probably should treat each component in their own section (4 sections total):

• HTTP Oubound Channel Adapter
• HTTP Inbound Channel Adapter
• Http Outbound Gateway
• Http Inbound Gateway

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Affects: 2.1 GA

Issue Links:

• Add 'value' attribute to the 'uri-variable' sub-element [INT-2463] #6444 Add 'value' attribute to the 'uri-variable' sub-element
  ("is depended on by")

• Document using the "path" attribute with HTTP inbound adapters [INT-2443] #6422 Document using the "path" attribute with HTTP inbound adapters

• Change from request-timeout to reply-timeout in HttpOutboundGateway is not reflected in the SI reference guide [INT-2450] #6429 Change from request-timeout to reply-timeout in HttpOutboundGateway is not reflected in the SI reference guide

Referenced from: pull request #1663

[spring-operator]

Artem Bilan commented

Gunnar, and again I've found a bug in the manual in the same place where you are working now ;-). Sorry
15.4 HTTP Namespace Support -> Mapping URI variables
uri-variable element now doesn't support value attribute.
Could you take care of it?