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title: dubbo-proxy
---

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## Summary

- [**Name**](#name)
- [**Requirement**](#requirement)
- [**Runtime Attributes**](#runtime-attributes)
- [**Static Attributes**](#static-attributes)
- [**How To Enable**](#how-to-enable)
- [**Test Plugin**](#test-plugin)
- [**Disable Plugin**](#disable-plugin)

## Name

dubbo-proxy plugin allows you proxy HTTP request to [**dubbo**](http://dubbo.apache.org).

## Requirement

If you are using OpenResty, you need to build it with dubbo support, see [how to build](../how-to-build.md#6-build-openresty-for-apisix)

To make http2dubbo work in APISIX, we enhance the dubbo module based on Tengine's `mod_dubbo`. The modifications are contributed back to Tengine, but they are not included in the latest release version (Tengine-2.3.2) yet. So Tengine itself is unsupported.

## Runtime Attributes

| Name         | Type   | Requirement | Default  | Valid        | Description                                                          |
| ------------ | ------ | ----------- | -------- | ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| service_name    | string | required    |          |              | dubbo provider service name|
| service_version | string | required    |          |              | dubbo provider service version|
| method          | string | optional    | the path of uri   |     | dubbo provider service method|

## Static Attributes

| Name         | Type   | Requirement | Default  | Valid        | Description                                                          |
| ------------ | ------ | ----------- | -------- | ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| upstream_multiplex_count | number | required    | 32        | >= 1 | the maximum number of multiplex requests in an upstream connection |

## How To Enable

First of all, enable the dubbo-proxy plugin in the `config.yaml`:

```
# Add this in config.yaml
plugins:
  - ... # plugin you need
  - dubbo-proxy
```

Then reload APISIX.

Here's an example, enable the dubbo-proxy plugin on the specified route:

```shell
curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/upstream/1  -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "nodes": {
        "127.0.0.1:20880": 1
    },
    "type": "roundrobin"
}'

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1  -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uris": [
        "/hello"
    ],
    "plugins": {
        "dubbo-proxy": {
            "service_name": "org.apache.dubbo.sample.tengine.DemoService",
            "service_version": "0.0.0",
            "method": "tengineDubbo"
        }
    },
    "upstream_id": 1
}'
```

## Test Plugin

You can follow the [Quick Start](https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/tree/master/modules/mod_dubbo#quick-start) example in Tengine and use the configuration above to test it.
They should provide the same result.

The returned data from upstream dubbo service must be a `Map<String, String>`.

If the returned data is

```json
{
    "status": "200",
    "header1": "value1",
    "header2": "valu2",
    "body": "blahblah"
}
```

the converted HTTP response will be

```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK # "status" will be the status code
...
header1: value1
header2: value2
...

blahblah # "body" will be the body
```

## Disable Plugin

When you want to disable the dubbo-proxy plugin on a route/service, it is very simple,
 you can delete the corresponding json configuration in the plugin configuration,
  no need to restart the service, it will take effect immediately:

```shell
$ curl http://127.0.0.1:2379/v2/keys/apisix/routes/1  -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d value='
{
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uris": [
        "/hello"
    ],
    "plugins": {
    },
    "upstream_id": 1
    }
}'
```

The dubbo-proxy plugin has been disabled now. It works for other plugins.

If you want to disable dubbo-proxy plugin totally,
you need to comment out in the `config.yaml`:

```yaml
plugins:
  - ... # plugin you need
  #- dubbo-proxy
```

And then reload APISIX.