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Email endpoint

The email endpoint enables developers to write applications that react to messages received in a mail server. Martini periodically checks the configured email and invokes the service if a new, unread email has been received.

Properties

General configuration

Property Default Description
Name (required) The name of the endpoint.
Service (required) The service to execute when the endpoint is triggered.
Run As Anonymous The user to run the service in behalf of. This is logged to Tracker.
Document Type <Name of endpoint type> The document type to be used when adding documents to Tracker as this endpoint is triggered.
Auto Start true Whether or not to automatically start the endpoint upon package startup.
Log To Tracker false Flag determining whether executions should be logged to Tracker.
Replicated true If this endpoint is configured on a Martini instance that's running in a cluster, replicated will determine whether to run the endpoint on all instances, or only the elected leader node in the cluster. When this is checked, all instances will run the endpoint. When it's unchecked, only the leader node will run the endpoint.

Email-specific configuration

Property Default Description
Host (required) The email server to connect to.
Port 993 The server port number.
Username (required) The email address used to login.
Password (required) The password used to login.
Polling Interval 1 The interval in seconds, which stipulates how often Martini checks the inbox.
Use SSL true Flag to determine whether the connection uses SSL.
Type IMAP The email protocol to use. Supported protocols: IMAP and POP3.
Delete email on receive false Flag determining whether the received email should be deleted after the service is invoked.
Send Service response as reply false Flag determining whether the output of the service is to be used as a reply body.
Send reply on error false Flag determining whether the exception thrown by the service, if any, be sent back as the reply body.

Auto-populate configuration available for popular email services

You can use the Choose button to populate the form with popular configurations such as GMail, Outlook, and Yahoo.

Reply properties

If "Send Service response as reply" or "Send reply on error" is enabled, additional properties for configuring the reply account is requested:

Property Default Description
Host (required) The email server to connect to.
Port 1 The server port number.
Username (required) The email address used to login.
Password (required) The password used to login.
From (required) The sender of the email. If none is provided, the value of the Username field is used.
SSL/TLS true Flag to determine whether the connection uses SSL.

Auto-populate configuration available for popular email services

You can use the Choose button to populate the reply form with popular configurations such as Amazon SES, GMail, Mailgun, Mandrill, Outlook, Sendgrid, and Yahoo.

Service

When the endpoint is triggered, the following variables are exposed to the configured service:

General parameters

Name Type Description
$trackerId java.lang.String The Tracker document internal ID. If the endpoint was configured to not track, this value will be null.
$tracker io.toro.martini.tracker.Tracker The Tracker object. If the endpoint was configured to not track, this value will be null.
martiniPackage MartiniPackage The Martini package that contains the endpoint.
parameters java.util.Map A map containing all the endpoint specific parameters.
properties java.util.Map A map containing containing all the properties associated with the endpoint.

Email-specific parameters

Name Type Description
message javax.mail.Message The message that triggered this endpoint.
to javax.mail.Address[] The addresses where the email was sent to.
cc javax.mail.Address[] The addresses where the email was CC'd to.
bcc javax.mail.Address[] The addresses where the email was BCC'd to.
from javax.mail.Address[] The addresses where the email was sent from.
fromAddress java.lang.String The first email address in the from array.
replyTo javax.mail.Address[] The addresses where the email should be replied to.
subject java.lang.String The subject of the email.
headers java.util.List<javax.mail.Header> The email headers.

If the message variable is of type MimeMessage at runtime (which is the case more often than not), additional variables are exposed to the service:

Name Type Description
attachments java.util.List<javax.activation.DataSource> The list of attachments in the email.
contentType java.lang.String Content type of the email body. Values are html and text.
body java.lang.String The email body.
bodyParts java.util.List<javax.activation.DataSource> The list of body parts in the email.
content java.lang.String The email body (alias for content).
file java.nio.file.Path A local file pointing to the first attachment in the email, if exists.
filename java.lang.String The absolute path of file.
inputStream java.io.InputStream An open InputStream, pointing to the file. The stream is automatically closed after the service executes.
bytes byte[] Contains all file data. This variable is only created if your method has a parameter that matches the name (therefore scripts will never have this variable since they don't declare variables).

Examples

Gloop as service

Consider this application using Gloop. This reads the attachments from an email.

Attachment-reading service

(2) Iterates over the attachments variable provided by the endpoint when the service is invoked.
(3) Logs each attachment and its contents.

Want more examples?

The distribution ships with a Martini package called examples, which contains services (including the above example) demonstrating more use cases.

Groovy script as service

Consider this Groovy script that simply prints the available variables in the context:

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[
    'properties',
    'parameters',
    'martiniPackage',
    'message',
    'to',
    'cc',
    'bcc',
    'from',
    'fromAddress',
    'replyTo',
    'subject',
    '$trackerId',
    '$tracker',

    'attachments',
    'contentType',
    'body',
    'inputStream',
    'reader' ].each { 

    println "$it\t : " + this[it]   
}

When the endpoint is triggered - in this case, an email is sent to the configured mail address - the console prints something similar to the example below:

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properties   : [ <ommitted> ]
parameters   : [ <ommitted> ]
martiniPackage   : martiniPackage [name=examples]
message  : org.springframework.integration.mail.AbstractMailReceiver$IntegrationMimeMessage@6e2794bf
to   : [recipient@mail.com]
cc  : []
bcc  : []
from     : [Awesome Developer <awesome-developer@mail.com>]
fromAddress  : awesome-developer@mail.com
replyTo  : [Awesome Developer <awesome-developer@mail.com>]
subject  : Hi!
$trackerId   : null
$tracker     : null
attachments  : []
contentType  : html
body     : <div dir="ltr">How's the application going?</div>...<ommitted>
inputStream  : null

Groovy method as service

The following example logs the content and name of each attachment from the received email:

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class Reader {

    def readAttachments( def attachments ) {
        attachments.each {
            "Attachment ${it.name} has content ${it.inputStream.text}".info()
        }
    }
}