Questions

What happens when a service changes its routes?

Great question! When a service is launched, in addition to registering itself and publishing its routes, it also broadcast a message to all Hydra-Router services so they can update their route information for the newly updated service. This is done on a per service basis so other service routes remain unaffected.

What if a service instance is unavailable?

If an active instance of a service can't be found then Hydra-Router will reply with a standard HTTP 503 (HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE) error.

So what's the catch?

HydraRouter can only be used with Hydra-enabled services and can only route JSON message payloads. However, the most common HTTP verbs are supported so you can send GET, POST, DELETE and PUT requests.