My take on a simple HTTP Façade for easy request making.
Zero-dependency, unobtrusive, Java 7/Google App Engine-ready API for some pretty HTTP handling.
<dependency>
<groupId>xyz.luan</groupId>
<artifactId>http-facade</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
</dependency>Simple get:
Response r = new HttpFacade("www.google.com").get();
r.status() // 200
r.content() // <html>...More complex request:
new HttpFacade("luan.xyz/api/people")
.header("key", "value")
.body("{ id: 42, name: \"Luan\" }")
.post();Parse URL's, set form and query params, handle cookies, authentication (built-in non-platform-dependent Base64 enc/dec), and more.
For problems with SSL requests and Java outdated CA certificate repositories, see here.
If you want to mock a request in order to always retrieve a specific response, instead of actually making the request, you can use MockedHttpFacade and MockedResponse.
Simply inject/instantiate a mocked service to do the request; see the following example:
class MyService {
public void sendRequest(String url) {
getFacade(url).get();
}
public HttpFacade getFacade(String url) {
return new HttpFacade(url);
}
}
class MockMyService extends MyService {
@Override
public HttpFacade getFacade(String url) {
MockedResponse.build().withStatus(200).withContent("{ name : mock }");
return new MockedHttpFacade(url).mockResponse(mock);
}
}