Enable HTTP compression for REST client only

[geoand]

Discussed in #46414

^{Originally posted by jdussouillez February 21, 2025}
I have a REST API that acts like a middleware between clients and another "external" REST API.

To send requests to the external API, I use a REST client. I want to enable HTTP compression in the REST client, but not in my REST API. Mostly because I have a nginx in front of my REST API that handles compression so it's handled outside of the Quarkus app.

Is this possible?

From what I saw in the documentation, to enable HTTP compression in REST client, I have to use quarkus.http.enable-compression=true.

https://quarkus.io/guides/rest-client#receiving-compressed-messages

REST Client also supports receiving compressed messages using GZIP. You can enable the HTTP compression support by adding the property quarkus.http.enable-compression=true.

But this option will also enable global HTTP compression for my API: https://quarkus.io/guides/http-reference#http-compression

I might find some way to make what I want, but I'm wondering if there is a way to easily enable compression only for REST client.

[quarkus-bot]

/cc @cescoffier (rest-client)

[geoand]

@jdussouillez can you try #46417 please?

[jdussouillez]

I tried but unfortunately I need more time to figure out how to use your branch into my project.

I cloned your repo, switched your branch, run MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx4g" ./mvnw install -Dquickly and followed https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#updating-the-version by changing the group id and version, but I have some trouble with quarkus-rest-jackson dependency:

'dependencies.dependency.version' for io.quarkus:quarkus-rest-jackson:jar is missing

When explicitly adding <version>999-SNAPSHOT</version> on the dependency, I have a lot of cannot find symbol: class Inject build errors.

I'll find a solution and try ASAP

[geoand]

FWIW, when I build Quarkus locally I use:

mvn -T 1C -DskipDocs -DskipTests -DskipITs -Dinvoker.skip -DskipExtensionValidation -Dskip.gradle.tests -Dskip.gradle.build -Dtruststore.skip clean install -Prelocations

Then I use:

      <dependency>
        <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
        <artifactId>quarkus-bom</artifactId>
        <version>999-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>pom</type>
        <scope>import</scope>
      </dependency>

as the BOM in any test application

[jdussouillez]

FWIW, when I build Quarkus locally I use

It's not my day I think.

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal net.revelc.code:impsort-maven-plugin:1.7.0:sort (sort-imports) on project quarkus-enforcer-rules: Execution sort-imports of goal net.revelc.code:impsort-maven-plugin:1.7.0:sort failed: A required class was missing while executing net.revelc.code:impsort-maven-plugin:1.7.0:sort: null
[ERROR] -----------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] realm =    plugin>net.revelc.code:impsort-maven-plugin:1.7.0
[ERROR] strategy = org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.strategy.SelfFirstStrategy
[ERROR] urls[0] = file:/home/junior/.m2/repository/net/revelc/code/impsort-maven-plugin/1.7.0/impsort-maven-plugin-1.7.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[1] = file:/home/junior/.m2/repository/com/github/javaparser/javaparser-core/3.24.2/javaparser-core-3.24.2.jar
[ERROR] urls[2] = file:/home/junior/.m2/repository/com/google/guava/guava/31.1-jre/guava-31.1-jre.jar
[ERROR] urls[3] = file:/home/junior/.m2/repository/com/google/guava/failureaccess/1.0.1/failureaccess-1.0.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[4] = file:/home/junior/.m2/repository/com/google/guava/listenablefuture/9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava/listenablefuture-9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava.jar
[ERROR] urls[5] = file:/home/junior/.m2/repository/com/google/code/findbugs/jsr305/3.0.2/jsr305-3.0.2.jar
[ERROR] urls[6] = file:/home/junior/.m2/repository/org/checkerframework/checker-qual/3.12.0/checker-qual-3.12.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[7] = file:/home/junior/.m2/repository/com/google/errorprone/error_prone_annotations/2.11.0/error_prone_annotations-2.11.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[8] = file:/home/junior/.m2/repository/com/google/j2objc/j2objc-annotations/1.3/j2objc-annotations-1.3.jar
[ERROR] Number of foreign imports: 1
[ERROR] import: Entry[import  from realm ClassRealm[maven.api, parent: null]]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] -----------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] : NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/plexus/util/DirectoryScanner: org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryScanner

[geoand]

What is the output of mvn -version?

I have:

Apache Maven 3.9.9 (8e8579a9e76f7d015ee5ec7bfcdc97d260186937)
Maven home: /home/gandrian/.sdkman/candidates/maven/current
Java version: 21.0.5, vendor: Eclipse Adoptium, runtime: /home/gandrian/.sdkman/candidates/java/21.0.5-tem
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "5.19.0-50-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

[jdussouillez]

Same. I'm using SDKMan and switched to 17 (my apps are 21) to build Quarkus

Apache Maven 3.9.9 (8e8579a9e76f7d015ee5ec7bfcdc97d260186937)
Maven home: /home/junior/.sdkman/candidates/maven/current
Java version: 17.0.14, vendor: Eclipse Adoptium, runtime: /home/junior/.sdkman/candidates/java/17.0.14-tem
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "6.11.0-17-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

[geoand]

I am out of ideas unfortunately

[geoand]

New week, perhaps any luck on a new attempt to build this?

[jdussouillez]

Same as last week unfortunately. I checked and Quarkus 999-SNAPSHOT (built from your branch) is well installed in my .m2 (file modification date matches), but I have the same issues as last week.

I'm thinking about adding a temporary module in the Quarkus project. This module will contain a endpoint calling a REST client to test the new options you added. So I don't use "external" dependencies installed on my machine but the project modules themselves.

[geoand]

I rebased the PR onto main, maybe rerunning the build will magically succeed now :)

[jdussouillez]

maybe rerunning the build will magically succeed now :)

I was hoping, but same issues. Quarkus installation works fine, but I have a lot of errors when trying to use it.

I created a small repo to use HTTP compression on REST client here: https://github.com/jdussouillez/quarkus-rest-client-compression

But I can't build/start it using my local Quarkus.

[geoand]

In your sample, you need to use quarkus-rest-jackson instead of quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson

[geoand]

It tried it and it works for me

[jdussouillez]

In your sample, you need to use quarkus-rest-jackson instead of quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson

Yes I know, I tried some stuff.

One of my coworker could build it correctly so we'll stop investigating on my machine. I'll make him test it. I'll give some feedback very soon.

[geoand]

👍🏽

[jdussouillez]

I tested it using https://github.com/jdussouillez/quarkus-rest-client-compression

I tested different configuration by switching on and off quarkus.http.enable-compression and quarkus.rest-client(.xxx).enable-compression and it works as expected! 🥳

Thanks for your help and the quick feature development!

[geoand]

Great, thanks for checking!