I’m using Vert.x for the first time ever to try to build an API in Java. Right now I can use an eventBus in my main verticle to forward certain routes like /example/:name etc to a handler that sends an eventBus message to it’s respective verticle.

  void helloPOC(RoutingContext context) {
    vertx
        .eventBus()
        .request(
            "poc.hello",
            "",
            reply -> {
              context.response().end((String) reply.result().body());
            });
  }

However, it doesn’t make sense to have so many handlers in my main verticle. I don’t assume this endpoint is going to be very fancy and have a lot of variables involved, but I want to be able to have a handler that can take all requests like /example/* to be handled in it’s respective exampleVerticle.

I could find any resources to do so but essentially this is how some pseudocode for what I want to be able to do.

// mainVerticle.java

start(){
  router.get("/example/*").handler(this::exampleHandler);
}

exampleHandler(){
  // routes to exampleVerticle
}

//exampleVerticle.java
start(){
  router.get("/example/hello").handler(this::helloExample);
}

void helloExample(RoutingContext context) {
  vertx
      .eventBus()
      .request(
          "example.hello",
          "",
          reply -> {
            // some sort of reply
          });
}

Obviously I don’t have much of an idea what I’m doing but I hope what I’m trying to do makes sense.

Thanks in advance!