Native mode

Things to consider before you run your application in the native mode.

Character encodings

By default only the following Charsets are available in the native mode (source):

Charset.defaultCharset(), US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-16

If you expect your application to need any encoding not included in this set or if you see an UnsupportedCharsetException thrown in the native mode, please add the following entry to your application.properties:

quarkus.native.add-all-charsets = true

See also quarkus.native.add-all-charsets in Quarkus documentation.

Embedding resource in native executable

Resources needed at runtime need to be explicitly embedded in the built native executable. In such situations, the include-patterns and exclude-patterns configurations could be set in application.properties as demonstrated below:

quarkus.camel.native.resources.include-patterns = docs/*,images/*
quarkus.camel.native.resources.exclude-patterns = docs/ignored.adoc,images/ignored.png

In the example above, resources named docs/included.adoc and images/included.png would be embedded in the native executable while docs/ignored.adoc and images/ignored.png would not.

include-patterns and exclude-patterns are list of comma separated Ant-path style patterns. At the end of the day, resources matching include-patterns are marked for inclusion at the exception of resources matching exclude-patterns.

Registering classes for reflection

By default, dynamic reflection is not available in native mode. Classes for which reflective access is needed have to be registered for reflection at compile time.

In many cases, application developers do not need to care because Quarkus extensions are able to detect the classes that require the reflection and register them automatically.

However, in some situations Quarkus extensions may miss some classes and it is up to the application developer to register them. There are two ways to do that:

  1. The @io.quarkus.runtime.annotations.RegisterForReflection annotation can be used to register classes on which it is used, or it can also register third party classes via its targets attribute.

  2. The quarkus.camel.native.reflection options in application.properties:

    quarkus.camel.native.reflection.include-patterns = org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.*
quarkus.camel.native.reflection.exclude-patterns = org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.*Triple

    For these options to work properly, the artifacts containing the selected classes must either contain a Jandex index ({@code META-INF/jandex.idx}) or they must be registered for indexing using the {@code quarkus.index-dependency.*} options in {@code application.properties} - e.g.

    quarkus.index-dependency.commons-lang3.group-id = org.apache.commons
quarkus.index-dependency.commons-lang3.artifact-id = commons-lang3
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