Using Mule to get Geo Code for address

For last few days i am playing around with Mule, its really cool integration framework. You can use it to build integration applications by using small amount of code. I had this requirement where given address i wanted to get the Geo Coding information for that address, I wanted to use Google Maps API for getting GeoCode information for the address. The way Google Maps API works is it has a REST API, it takes address as query string and it returns JSON structure. Ex. If you copy paste this URL in the browser http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=3055 Oak Road,Walnut Creek,CA,94597&sensor=false You will get a JSON structure with longitude and latitude embedded in lot of other information

{
   "results" : [
      {
         "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "3055",
               "short_name" : "3055",
               "types" : [ "street_number" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Oak Road",
               "short_name" : "Oak Rd",
               "types" : [ "route" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Walnut Creek",
               "short_name" : "Walnut Creek",
               "types" : [ "locality", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Contra Costa County",
               "short_name" : "Contra Costa County",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "California",
               "short_name" : "CA",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "United States",
               "short_name" : "US",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "94597",
               "short_name" : "94597",
               "types" : [ "postal_code" ]
            }
         ],
         "formatted_address" : "3055 Oak Road, Walnut Creek, CA 94597, USA",
         "geometry" : {
            "bounds" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 37.9302338,
                  "lng" : -122.0582288
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 37.9302299,
                  "lng" : -122.0582466
               }
            },
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 37.9302299,
               "lng" : -122.0582466
            },
            "location_type" : "RANGE_INTERPOLATED",
            "viewport" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 37.93158083029149,
                  "lng" : -122.0568887197085
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 37.9288828697085,
                  "lng" : -122.0595866802915
               }
            }
         },
         "types" : [ "street_address" ]
      }
   ],
   "status" : "OK"
}

Out of all the data returned by Google MAPS api i am only interested in the Lat and Long and i want to return it in GeoJSON format like this

 [
 -122.0582466,
 37.9302299
 ]

Which is [lng,lat] format, some open source JavaScript Mapping frameworks understand the GeoJSON format. I built a simple Mule integration application which takes STREETLINE1, CITY, STATE, ZIPCODE as argument and returns geo location in GeoJSON format like this [lng,lat]. I followed these steps to build the application

1. First i built a Mule Flow which looks like this
   
   In this flow i have a composite input source that could take input on either VM transport or HTTP transport and then uses the values submitted by user to make a request to Google Maps API. Once the response is returned it uses DataMapper to convert the big response that Google Maps API returns into simple GeoJSON response.
2. This is how the Data Mapping file looks like
   
   If you look at the script of this file it looks like this

After deploying this application i can make the POST call to http://localhost:9081/geocode URL and see the location in geojson format like this