SendGrid Test Webhook

SendGrid event webhook must be tested before deploying into the production environment, so far we have tested it by sending an actual email and receiving a webhook API call event response.

SendGrid provides a better way of testing the webhook, instead of sending an email every time, it provides an HTTP POST method, which will post a fake event notification data on the call back API.

package org.wesome.sendgrid;

import com.sendgrid.SendGrid;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@SpringBootApplication
@RestController
public class SendGridApplication {
    @Value("${send.grid.api.key}")
    private String sendGridApiKey;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(SendGridApplication.class, args);
    }

    @Bean
    public SendGrid sendGrid() {
        SendGrid sendGrid = new SendGrid(sendGridApiKey);
        return sendGrid;
    }
}
package org.wesome.sendgrid.controller;

import com.sendgrid.Method;
import com.sendgrid.Request;
import com.sendgrid.Response;
import com.sendgrid.SendGrid;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PostMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

@RestController
public class SendGridController {
    private SendGrid sendGrid;

    @PostMapping("webhook")
    public void webhook(@RequestBody List webhook) {
        for (WebHook webHook : webhook) {
            System.out.println("webHook = \n" + webHook);
        }
    }

    @GetMapping
    public ResponseEntity sendGridAPI() throws IOException {
        Request request = new Request();
        Response response;
        try {
            request.setMethod(Method.POST);
            request.setEndpoint("user/webhooks/event/test");
            request.setBody("{\"url\":\"https://de95-103-112-17-103.ngrok.io/webhook\"}");
            response = sendGrid.api(request);
            System.out.println("Headers := \n" + response.getHeaders());
            System.out.println("Body := \n" + response.getBody());
            System.out.println("StatusCode := \n" + response.getStatusCode());
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            throw ex;
        }
        return new ResponseEntity(HttpStatus.valueOf(response.getStatusCode()).getReasonPhrase(), HttpStatus.valueOf(response.getStatusCode()));
    }
}
plugins {
    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.11.RELEASE'
    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.5.5'
    id 'java'
}

group = 'org.wesome'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
    implementation 'com.sendgrid:sendgrid-java:4.4.5'
    implementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
}

test {
    useJUnitPlatform()
}
send.grid.api.key=Your SendGrid Api Key
curl --location --request GET 'http://localhost:8080'

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