How to consume REST in Java

Using Java tools,

wscompile for RPC
wsimport for Document
etc..

I can use WSDL to generate the stub and Classes required to hit the SOAP Web Service.

But I have no idea how I can do the same in REST. How can I get the Java classes required for hitting the REST Web Service. What is the way to hit the service anyway?

Can anyone show me the way?

Working example, try this:

package restclient;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

public class NetClientGet {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {

			URL url = new URL("http://localhost:3002/RestWebserviceDemo/rest/json/product/dynamicData?size=5");//your url i.e fetch data from .
			HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
			conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
			conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
			if (conn.getResponseCode() != 200) {
				throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP Error code : "
						+ conn.getResponseCode());
			}
			InputStreamReader in = new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream());
			BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(in);
			String output;
			while ((output = br.readLine()) != null) {
				System.out.println(output);
			}
			conn.disconnect();

		} catch (Exception e) {
			System.out.println("Exception in NetClientGet:- " + e);
		}
	}
}

As others have said, you can do it using the lower level HTTP API, or you can use the higher level JAXRS APIs to consume a service as JSON. For example:

Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
WebTarget target = client.target("http://host:8080/context/rest/method");
JsonArray response = target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).get(JsonArray.class);



       

Its just a 2 line of code.

import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;

RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
YourBean obj = restTemplate.getForObject("http://gturnquist-quoters.cfapps.io/api/random", YourBean.class);

Ref. Spring.io consuming-rest

The code below will help to consume rest api via Java. URL - end point rest If you dont need any authentication you dont need to write the authStringEnd variable

The method will return a JsonObject with your response

public JSONObject getAllTypes() throws JSONException, IOException {
        String url = "/api/atlas/types";
        String authString = name + ":" + password;
        String authStringEnc = new BASE64Encoder().encode(authString.getBytes());
        javax.ws.rs.client.Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
        WebTarget webTarget = client.target(host + url);
        Invocation.Builder invocationBuilder = webTarget.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).header("Authorization", "Basic " + authStringEnc);

        Response response = invocationBuilder.get();
        String output = response.readEntity(String.class
        );

        System.out.println(response.toString());
        JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(output);

        return obj;
    }

Just make an http request to the required URL with correct query string, or request body.

For example you could use java.net.HttpURLConnection and then consume via connection.getInputStream(), and then covnert to your objects.

In spring there is a restTemplate that makes it all a bit easier.

If you also need to convert that xml string that comes as a response to the service call, an x object you need can do it as follows:

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXB;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

import org.w3c.dom.CharacterData;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class RestServiceClient {

// http://localhost:8080/RESTfulExample/json/product/get
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParserConfigurationException,
SAXException {

try {

URL url = new URL(
    "http://localhost:8080/CustomerDB/webresources/co.com.mazf.ciudad");
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/xml");

if (conn.getResponseCode() != 200) {
throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code : "
    + conn.getResponseCode());
}

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
    (conn.getInputStream())));

String output;

Ciudades ciudades = new Ciudades();
System.out.println("Output from Server .... \n");
while ((output = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println("12132312");
System.err.println(output);

DocumentBuilder db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
    .newDocumentBuilder();
InputSource is = new InputSource();
is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(output));

Document doc = db.parse(is);
NodeList nodes = ((org.w3c.dom.Document) doc)
    .getElementsByTagName("ciudad");

for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
    Ciudad ciudad = new Ciudad();
    Element element = (Element) nodes.item(i);

    NodeList name = element.getElementsByTagName("idCiudad");
    Element element2 = (Element) name.item(0);

    ciudad.setIdCiudad(Integer
        .valueOf(getCharacterDataFromElement(element2)));

    NodeList title = element.getElementsByTagName("nomCiudad");
    element2 = (Element) title.item(0);

    ciudad.setNombre(getCharacterDataFromElement(element2));

    ciudades.getPartnerAccount().add(ciudad);
}
}

for (Ciudad ciudad1 : ciudades.getPartnerAccount()) {
System.out.println(ciudad1.getIdCiudad());
System.out.println(ciudad1.getNombre());
}

conn.disconnect();

} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

public static String getCharacterDataFromElement(Element e) {
Node child = e.getFirstChild();
if (child instanceof CharacterData) {
CharacterData cd = (CharacterData) child;
return cd.getData();
}
return "";
}
}

Note that the xml structure that I expected in the example was as follows:

<ciudad><idCiudad>1</idCiudad><nomCiudad>BOGOTA</nomCiudad></ciudad>

Look at Jersey. Again, REST is all about the data. And a tutorial here

JAX-RS but you can also use regular DOM that comes with standard Java

From your question its not clear whether you are using any frameworks.For REST you will be getting an WADL & Apache CXF recently added support for WADL-first development of REST services.Please go through http://cxf.apache.org/docs/index.html

You can able to consume a Restful Web service in Spring using RestTemplate.class.

Example :

public class Application {

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
        ResponseEntity<String> call= restTemplate.getForEntity("http://localhost:8080/SpringExample/hello",String.class);
        System.out.println(call.getBody())
    }

}

Reference

Apache Http Client APIs are very commonly used for calling HTTP Rest services.

Here is one of example of consuming HTTP GET call.

import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;

public class CallHTTPGetService {

public static void main(String[] args) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {


	HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
	HttpUriRequest httpUriRequest = new HttpGet("URL");

	HttpResponse response = client.execute(httpUriRequest);
    System.out.println(response);

}
}

Use following maven dependency if using Maven project.

<dependency>
		<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
		<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
		<version>4.5.1</version>
	</dependency>
	<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.httpcomponents/httpmime -->
	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
		<artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
		<version>4.5.1</version>
	</dependency>