Add mcp-server module: order-lookup service exposed via @McpTool/@McpResource/@McpPrompt over Streamable HTTP

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FtpJvZfg4nvLvtzgJTDWpB
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# mcp-server
An existing Spring service -- an order-lookup repository, nothing MCP-aware about it -- exposed
as MCP tools, resources, and a prompt with `@McpTool`/`@McpResource`/`@McpPrompt`, served over
Streamable HTTP: Spring AI 2.0's default MCP server transport.
Companion code for [Build an MCP Server with Spring AI 2.0](https://ankurm.com/spring-ai-2-0-mcp-server-streamable-http/) on [ankurm.com](https://ankurm.com).
## Versions
Spring Boot **4.1.1**, Spring AI **2.0.1**, Java **25** (LTS) -- same baseline as the rest of this
repository.
## Quickstart
```
./scripts/run.sh
```
Then, in another shell:
```
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"curl","version":"1.0"}}}'
```
or point [MCP Inspector](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector) or Claude Desktop's
MCP settings at `http://localhost:8080/mcp`.
## What's exposed
| Kind | Name | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Tool | `lookup_order` | Looks up one order by ID; returns customer, status, items, total |
| Resource | `orders://catalog` | Every order ID currently in the system, one per line |
| Prompt | `summarize_order` | A ready-made prompt asking a model to summarize one order for support |
All three live in [`OrderTools.java`](src/main/java/com/ankurm/mcpserver/tools/OrderTools.java),
which imports nothing MCP-specific except the three annotations -- the domain type
([`Order.java`](src/main/java/com/ankurm/mcpserver/domain/Order.java)) and the repository behind
it ([`OrderRepository.java`](src/main/java/com/ankurm/mcpserver/domain/OrderRepository.java))
would exist whether or not MCP was ever wired in.
## The one property that matters
```yaml
spring:
ai:
mcp:
server:
protocol: streamable
```
The jar's own `spring-configuration-metadata.json` lists `streamable` as this property's default
-- but leave it out of `application.yml` and the `/mcp` endpoint never gets registered at all
(a plain 404, not a clearer error). See
[`output/06-protocol-property-unset-404.txt`](output/06-protocol-property-unset-404.txt) for the
real condition-evaluation log line that explains why, and the article for the full story.
## Tests and captured output
`OrderMcpServerTest` drives the real, running server over its real Streamable HTTP transport
using the official MCP Java SDK client (`io.modelcontextprotocol.sdk:mcp`, the same library MCP
Inspector and Claude Desktop are themselves built on) -- not a mock -- and asserts on the parsed,
typed results. `OrderMcpTranscriptTest` separately captures the literal JSON-RPC bytes that cross
the wire, with a plain synchronous `java.net.http.HttpClient` driving the protocol by hand
(initialize, read the `Mcp-Session-Id` header, `notifications/initialized`, then one request per
method): an earlier version tried to capture the SDK client's own traffic with a shared servlet
filter and that was intermittently flaky, because the Streamable HTTP transport writes responses
during an async servlet dispatch and can multiplex more than one JSON-RPC message onto one
long-lived HTTP exchange -- one request per `HttpClient.send()`, read back synchronously,
sidesteps that instead of fighting it. Either way, every request and response quoted in the
article is real, not reconstructed.
| Output file | What it captures |
|---|---|
| `output/01-initialize-and-list-tools.txt` | The MCP handshake, then `tools/list` |
| `output/02-call-tool-lookup-order.txt` | `tools/call` for a real order |
| `output/03-read-resource-catalog.txt` | `resources/read` for the order catalog |
| `output/04-get-prompt-summarize-order.txt` | `prompts/get` for the summarize prompt |
| `output/05-call-tool-lookup-order-not-found.txt` | `tools/call` for an order ID that doesn't exist -- a tool error, not a protocol error |
| `output/06-protocol-property-unset-404.txt` | Captured manually: the 404 you get without `spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol` set, and the real Boot condition-evaluation log line that explains it |
Run `mvn -o test` (or `./scripts/run-all.sh`) to regenerate 01 through 05.
## Regenerating output
```
./scripts/run-all.sh
```
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# POST /mcp -- initialize, then tools/list
Request (initialize):
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"transcript-capture","version":"1.0"}}}
Response (200):
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{"completions":{},"logging":{},"prompts":{"listChanged":true},"resources":{"subscribe":false,"listChanged":true},"tools":{"listChanged":true}},"serverInfo":{"name":"order-lookup-server","version":"1.0.0"}}}
Request (tools/list):
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/list","params":{}}
Response (200):
id:59682b84-e49c-42d2-908e-a8105aa31514
event:message
data:{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"tools":[{"name":"lookup_order","title":"lookup_order","description":"Look up a single order by its ID and return its customer, status, items, and total.","inputSchema":{"$schema":"https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema","type":"object","properties":{"orderId":{"type":"string","description":"The order ID, e.g. ORD-1001"}},"required":["orderId"]},"annotations":{"title":"","readOnlyHint":false,"destructiveHint":true,"idempotentHint":false,"openWorldHint":true}}]}}
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# POST /mcp -- tools/call lookup_order, a real order
Request:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"lookup_order","arguments":{"orderId":"ORD-1001"}}}
Response (200):
id:59682b84-e49c-42d2-908e-a8105aa31514
event:message
data:{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"{\"id\":\"ORD-1001\",\"customer\":\"Priya Nair\",\"status\":\"SHIPPED\",\"items\":[\"Mechanical keyboard\",\"USB-C cable\"],\"total\":4899.00}"}],"isError":false}}
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# POST /mcp -- resources/read orders://catalog
Request:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":4,"method":"resources/read","params":{"uri":"orders://catalog"}}
Response (200):
id:59682b84-e49c-42d2-908e-a8105aa31514
event:message
data:{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":4,"result":{"contents":[{"uri":"orders://catalog","mimeType":"text/plain","text":"ORD-1001\nORD-1002\nORD-1003\nORD-1004"}]}}
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# POST /mcp -- prompts/get summarize_order
Request:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":5,"method":"prompts/get","params":{"name":"summarize_order","arguments":{"orderId":"ORD-1002"}}}
Response (200):
id:59682b84-e49c-42d2-908e-a8105aa31514
event:message
data:{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":5,"result":{"messages":[{"role":"assistant","content":{"type":"text","text":"Call the lookup_order tool for order ORD-1002, then write a single short paragraph a customer support agent could paste into a reply: state the order status in plain language, list the items, and mention the total. Do not invent any detail the tool did not return."}}]}}
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# POST /mcp -- tools/call lookup_order, an order ID that does not exist
Request:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":6,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"lookup_order","arguments":{"orderId":"ORD-9999"}}}
Response (200), note isError:true inside a 200 -- HTTP itself never fails for a tool error:
id:59682b84-e49c-42d2-908e-a8105aa31514
event:message
data:{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":6,"result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"No order with ID ORD-9999\nNo order with ID ORD-9999"}],"isError":true}}
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# The 404 that shows up with no spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol set, and why
Captured manually against a standalone run of this module with application.yml's
`spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol: streamable` line removed -- everything else identical.
Reproduced with: `mvn -o spring-boot:run --server.port=18099 --debug`, then:
$ curl -X POST http://localhost:18099/mcp -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"test","version":"1.0"}}}'
{"timestamp":"2026-09-23T11:44:01.196Z","status":404,"error":"Not Found","path":"/mcp"}
The real reason, from Boot's own --debug condition-evaluation report (trimmed to the one line
that matters):
McpServerStreamableHttpWebMvcAutoConfiguration:
Did not match:
- AllNestedConditions 1 matched 1 did not; NestedCondition on
McpServerAutoConfiguration.EnabledStreamableServerCondition.StreamableEnabledCondition
@ConditionalOnProperty (spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol=STREAMABLE) did not find
property 'protocol'; NestedCondition on
McpServerAutoConfiguration.EnabledStreamableServerCondition.McpServerEnabledCondition
@ConditionalOnProperty (spring.ai.mcp.server.enabled=true) matched
The jar's spring-configuration-metadata.json lists "streamable" as spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol's
default value -- but that default is only ever applied when something actually binds the
@ConfigurationProperties object (McpServerProperties). The @ConditionalOnProperty guarding
McpServerStreamableHttpWebMvcAutoConfiguration runs before any binding happens, checking the
Spring Environment directly for a literal "spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol" entry. No entry, no
match, no RouterFunction registered for /mcp -- the endpoint simply does not exist, and every
request to it 404s exactly like a request to a path nobody ever mapped, which is exactly what it
is. Setting spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol: streamable explicitly in application.yml fixes it, and
that same run then returns a normal 200 with a real MCP initialize response, e.g.:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{"completions":{},"logging":{},"prompts":{"listChanged":true},"resources":{"subscribe":false,"listChanged":true},"tools":{"listChanged":true}},"serverInfo":{"name":"order-lookup-server","version":"1.0.0"}}}
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>4.1.1</version>
<relativePath/>
</parent>
<groupId>com.ankurm</groupId>
<artifactId>mcp-server</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<name>mcp-server</name>
<description>An existing Spring Boot service exposed as MCP tools with @McpTool/@McpResource, over Streamable HTTP -- Spring AI 2.0's default MCP server transport</description>
<properties>
<java.version>25</java.version>
<!-- Spring AI is not managed by the Spring Boot BOM: this pair is yours to keep compatible. -->
<spring-ai.version>2.0.1</spring-ai.version>
</properties>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ai-bom</artifactId>
<version>${spring-ai.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<!-- spring-ai-starter-mcp-server-webmvc's own POM still declares spring-boot-starter-web,
not the newer spring-boot-starter-webmvc split; see the "going deeper" note in the
article. Both resolve to the same servlet-stack Spring MVC, so this compiles and runs
either way; it is simply not yet updated for Boot 4's naming. -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-ai-starter-mcp-server-webmvc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<argLine>-Duser.timezone=UTC -Dstdout.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</argLine>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Regenerates every reproducible file under output/. Run from the module root
# (spring-ai/mcp-server). Needs Maven with the dependencies already resolved once online.
#
# output/06-*.txt is NOT regenerated here -- it was captured manually against a standalone run
# with spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol commented out in application.yml. See its own header.
set -eu
cd "$(dirname "$0")/.."
mvn -q -o test
echo
echo "Regenerated output/01 through 05 -- real JSON-RPC exchanges captured by"
echo "OrderMcpTranscriptTest against the real running Streamable HTTP endpoint."
echo "output/06-protocol-property-unset-404.txt was captured manually -- see its header."
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Starts the application, killing any previous instance first.
#
# Usage:
# ./scripts/run.sh
#
# Then, in another shell (or point MCP Inspector / Claude Desktop at the same URL):
# curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/mcp \
# -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
# -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"curl","version":"1.0"}}}'
set -eu
cd "$(dirname "$0")/.."
for p in $(ps -eo pid,cmd | grep '[M]cpServerApplication' | awk '{print $1}'); do
kill -9 "$p"
done
mvn -q -o org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:run
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package com.ankurm.mcpserver;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
@SpringBootApplication
public class McpServerApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(McpServerApplication.class, args);
}
}
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package com.ankurm.mcpserver.domain;
import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.util.List;
/**
* The existing domain type this module pretends predates MCP entirely -- the point of this
* article is exposing a service that already looks like this, not designing one around MCP.
*/
public record Order(String id, String customer, OrderStatus status, List<String> items, BigDecimal total) {
}
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package com.ankurm.mcpserver.domain;
import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;
/**
* Stand-in for a real order-lookup service (a JPA repository, a call to another microservice,
* whatever it actually is at your shop). The MCP-facing code in {@code tools} never needs to
* change if this gets replaced with the real thing -- it depends on this interface's shape, not
* its storage.
*/
@Repository
public class OrderRepository {
private final Map<String, Order> orders = new LinkedHashMap<>();
public OrderRepository() {
orders.put("ORD-1001", new Order("ORD-1001", "Priya Nair", OrderStatus.SHIPPED,
List.of("Mechanical keyboard", "USB-C cable"), new BigDecimal("4899.00")));
orders.put("ORD-1002", new Order("ORD-1002", "Rohan Mehta", OrderStatus.PENDING,
List.of("27\" monitor"), new BigDecimal("18999.00")));
orders.put("ORD-1003", new Order("ORD-1003", "Ankita Rao", OrderStatus.DELIVERED,
List.of("Laptop stand", "Wireless mouse", "USB hub"), new BigDecimal("3450.00")));
orders.put("ORD-1004", new Order("ORD-1004", "Vikram Shah", OrderStatus.CANCELLED,
List.of("Graphics card"), new BigDecimal("42999.00")));
}
public Optional<Order> findById(String id) {
return Optional.ofNullable(orders.get(id));
}
public List<Order> findAll() {
return List.copyOf(orders.values());
}
}
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package com.ankurm.mcpserver.domain;
public enum OrderStatus {
PENDING, SHIPPED, DELIVERED, CANCELLED
}
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package com.ankurm.mcpserver.tools;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import org.springframework.ai.mcp.annotation.McpArg;
import org.springframework.ai.mcp.annotation.McpPrompt;
import org.springframework.ai.mcp.annotation.McpResource;
import org.springframework.ai.mcp.annotation.McpTool;
import org.springframework.ai.mcp.annotation.McpToolParam;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import com.ankurm.mcpserver.domain.Order;
import com.ankurm.mcpserver.domain.OrderRepository;
/**
* The existing service this article exposes over MCP. Nothing here imports an MCP class except
* the three annotations -- {@link OrderRepository} and {@link Order} are ordinary Spring beans
* and domain types that would exist whether or not an AI agent ever called them.
*/
@Service
public class OrderTools {
private final OrderRepository repository;
public OrderTools(OrderRepository repository) {
this.repository = repository;
}
@McpTool(name = "lookup_order", description = "Look up a single order by its ID and return its customer, status, items, and total.")
public Order lookupOrder(
@McpToolParam(description = "The order ID, e.g. ORD-1001", required = true) String orderId) {
return repository.findById(orderId)
.orElseThrow(() -> new IllegalArgumentException("No order with ID " + orderId));
}
@McpResource(uri = "orders://catalog", name = "order-catalog",
description = "Every order ID currently in the system, one per line -- read this first if you don't already have an order ID to look up.",
mimeType = "text/plain")
public String orderCatalog() {
return repository.findAll().stream().map(Order::id).collect(Collectors.joining("\n"));
}
@McpPrompt(name = "summarize_order", description = "A ready-made prompt asking a model to write a one-paragraph customer-support summary of one order.")
public String summarizeOrderPrompt(
@McpArg(name = "orderId", description = "The order ID to summarize, e.g. ORD-1001", required = true) String orderId) {
return "Call the lookup_order tool for order " + orderId
+ ", then write a single short paragraph a customer support agent could paste into a reply: "
+ "state the order status in plain language, list the items, and mention the total. "
+ "Do not invent any detail the tool did not return.";
}
}
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spring:
application:
name: mcp-server
ai:
mcp:
server:
name: order-lookup-server
version: 1.0.0
# The jar's own spring-configuration-metadata.json lists "streamable" as this
# property's default -- but that is only the @ConfigurationProperties field default,
# and the autoconfiguration class that actually wires the /mcp endpoint is gated by
# @ConditionalOnProperty, which only ever looks at the Environment, never at a field
# default. Leave this property unset and McpServerStreamableHttpWebMvcAutoConfiguration
# never matches, full stop -- see the article for the real condition-evaluation log line.
protocol: streamable
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package com.ankurm.mcpserver;
import java.util.Map;
import io.modelcontextprotocol.client.McpClient;
import io.modelcontextprotocol.client.McpSyncClient;
import io.modelcontextprotocol.client.transport.HttpClientStreamableHttpTransport;
import io.modelcontextprotocol.spec.McpSchema;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.boot.test.web.server.LocalServerPort;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
/**
* Drives the real, running MCP server over its real Streamable HTTP transport, using the
* official MCP Java SDK client (the same client library MCP Inspector and Claude Desktop are
* themselves built on) -- not a mock, not an in-process shortcut. This class asserts on the
* parsed, typed results; {@link OrderMcpTranscriptTest} separately captures the literal wire
* bytes for the article, over a deliberately simpler raw HTTP path (see its class comment for
* why the two are kept apart).
*/
@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
class OrderMcpServerTest {
@LocalServerPort
private int port;
private McpSyncClient client;
@BeforeEach
void connect() {
HttpClientStreamableHttpTransport transport = HttpClientStreamableHttpTransport
.builder("http://localhost:" + port)
.endpoint("/mcp")
.build();
this.client = McpClient.sync(transport).build();
this.client.initialize();
}
@AfterEach
void disconnect() {
this.client.closeGracefully();
}
@Test
void listsTheRegisteredTool() {
McpSchema.ListToolsResult tools = this.client.listTools();
assertThat(tools.tools()).extracting(McpSchema.Tool::name).containsExactly("lookup_order");
}
@Test
void callsLookupOrderTool() {
McpSchema.CallToolResult result = this.client
.callTool(new McpSchema.CallToolRequest("lookup_order", Map.of("orderId", "ORD-1001")));
assertThat(result.isError()).isNotEqualTo(Boolean.TRUE);
String text = ((McpSchema.TextContent) result.content().get(0)).text();
assertThat(text).contains("Priya Nair").contains("SHIPPED").contains("4899.00");
}
@Test
void callingLookupOrderWithAnUnknownIdReturnsAToolErrorNotAProtocolError() {
McpSchema.CallToolResult result = this.client
.callTool(new McpSchema.CallToolRequest("lookup_order", Map.of("orderId", "ORD-9999")));
assertThat(result.isError()).isEqualTo(Boolean.TRUE);
String text = ((McpSchema.TextContent) result.content().get(0)).text();
assertThat(text).contains("No order with ID ORD-9999");
}
@Test
void readsTheOrderCatalogResource() {
McpSchema.ReadResourceResult result = this.client
.readResource(new McpSchema.ReadResourceRequest("orders://catalog"));
String text = ((McpSchema.TextResourceContents) result.contents().get(0)).text();
assertThat(text).contains("ORD-1001").contains("ORD-1002").contains("ORD-1003").contains("ORD-1004");
}
@Test
void getsTheSummarizeOrderPrompt() {
McpSchema.GetPromptResult result = this.client
.getPrompt(new McpSchema.GetPromptRequest("summarize_order", Map.of("orderId", "ORD-1002")));
String text = ((McpSchema.TextContent) result.messages().get(0).content()).text();
assertThat(text).contains("ORD-1002").contains("lookup_order");
}
}
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package com.ankurm.mcpserver;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.time.Duration;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.boot.test.web.server.LocalServerPort;
import com.ankurm.mcpserver.support.Transcript;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
/**
* Captures the literal JSON-RPC bytes for the article by talking to the real, running server
* with a plain {@code java.net.http.HttpClient} -- deliberately not the MCP SDK client that
* {@link OrderMcpServerTest} uses for assertions. An earlier version of this test tried to
* capture the SDK client's traffic with a servlet filter and failed intermittently: the
* Streamable HTTP transport writes each response during an async servlet dispatch, and can
* multiplex more than one JSON-RPC message onto the same long-lived HTTP exchange, so a filter
* keyed by "one request equals one response equals one method" is fighting the protocol rather
* than observing it. One request per {@code HttpClient.send()} call, read synchronously, sidesteps
* that entirely -- what is captured here is exactly, deterministically, what the socket carried.
*/
@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
class OrderMcpTranscriptTest {
@LocalServerPort
private int port;
private final HttpClient httpClient = HttpClient.newBuilder().connectTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(5)).build();
@Test
void capturesRealJsonRpcTranscripts() throws Exception {
String base = "http://localhost:" + this.port + "/mcp";
String initRequest = """
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"transcript-capture","version":"1.0"}}}""";
HttpResponse<String> initResponse = post(base, initRequest, null);
assertThat(initResponse.statusCode()).isEqualTo(200);
String sessionId = initResponse.headers().firstValue("Mcp-Session-Id").orElseThrow();
try (Transcript out = new Transcript("01-initialize-and-list-tools.txt",
"POST /mcp -- initialize, then tools/list")) {
out.line("Request (initialize):").blank().line(initRequest).blank();
out.line("Response (%s):", initResponse.statusCode()).blank().line(initResponse.body()).blank();
String initializedNotification = """
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"notifications/initialized"}""";
post(base, initializedNotification, sessionId);
String listRequest = """
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/list","params":{}}""";
HttpResponse<String> listResponse = post(base, listRequest, sessionId);
assertThat(listResponse.body()).contains("lookup_order");
out.line("Request (tools/list):").blank().line(listRequest).blank();
out.line("Response (%s):", listResponse.statusCode()).blank().line(listResponse.body());
}
String callRequest = """
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"lookup_order","arguments":{"orderId":"ORD-1001"}}}""";
HttpResponse<String> callResponse = post(base, callRequest, sessionId);
assertThat(callResponse.body()).contains("Priya Nair").contains("SHIPPED");
try (Transcript out = new Transcript("02-call-tool-lookup-order.txt",
"POST /mcp -- tools/call lookup_order, a real order")) {
out.line("Request:").blank().line(callRequest).blank();
out.line("Response (%s):", callResponse.statusCode()).blank().line(callResponse.body());
}
String readRequest = """
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":4,"method":"resources/read","params":{"uri":"orders://catalog"}}""";
HttpResponse<String> readResponse = post(base, readRequest, sessionId);
assertThat(readResponse.body()).contains("ORD-1001").contains("ORD-1004");
try (Transcript out = new Transcript("03-read-resource-catalog.txt",
"POST /mcp -- resources/read orders://catalog")) {
out.line("Request:").blank().line(readRequest).blank();
out.line("Response (%s):", readResponse.statusCode()).blank().line(readResponse.body());
}
String promptRequest = """
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":5,"method":"prompts/get","params":{"name":"summarize_order","arguments":{"orderId":"ORD-1002"}}}""";
HttpResponse<String> promptResponse = post(base, promptRequest, sessionId);
assertThat(promptResponse.body()).contains("ORD-1002").contains("lookup_order");
try (Transcript out = new Transcript("04-get-prompt-summarize-order.txt",
"POST /mcp -- prompts/get summarize_order")) {
out.line("Request:").blank().line(promptRequest).blank();
out.line("Response (%s):", promptResponse.statusCode()).blank().line(promptResponse.body());
}
String notFoundRequest = """
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":6,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"lookup_order","arguments":{"orderId":"ORD-9999"}}}""";
HttpResponse<String> notFoundResponse = post(base, notFoundRequest, sessionId);
assertThat(notFoundResponse.statusCode()).isEqualTo(200);
assertThat(notFoundResponse.body()).contains("\"isError\":true").contains("No order with ID ORD-9999");
try (Transcript out = new Transcript("05-call-tool-lookup-order-not-found.txt",
"POST /mcp -- tools/call lookup_order, an order ID that does not exist")) {
out.line("Request:").blank().line(notFoundRequest).blank();
out.line("Response (%s), note isError:true inside a 200 -- HTTP itself never fails for a tool error:",
notFoundResponse.statusCode()).blank().line(notFoundResponse.body());
}
}
private HttpResponse<String> post(String url, String jsonBody, String sessionId) throws Exception {
HttpRequest.Builder builder = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create(url))
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.header("Accept", "application/json, text/event-stream")
.POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString(jsonBody));
if (sessionId != null) {
builder.header("Mcp-Session-Id", sessionId);
}
return this.httpClient.send(builder.build(), HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
}
}
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package com.ankurm.mcpserver.support;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
/**
* Writes a numbered transcript under {@code output/} (repository root, not {@code docs/}) and
* echoes it to the console. Every console block quoted in the article comes out of one of these
* files verbatim.
*/
public final class Transcript implements AutoCloseable {
private final Path path;
private final StringWriter buffer = new StringWriter();
private final PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(buffer);
public Transcript(String fileName, String title) {
this.path = Path.of("output", fileName);
out.println("# " + title);
out.println();
}
public Transcript line(String format, Object... args) {
out.println(args.length == 0 ? format : String.format(format, args));
return this;
}
public Transcript blank() {
out.println();
return this;
}
@Override
public void close() {
out.flush();
try {
Files.createDirectories(path.getParent());
Files.writeString(path, buffer.toString());
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new IllegalStateException("could not write " + path, e);
}
System.out.print(buffer);
}
}