JAX-RS 2.0 RESTEasy 3.0.2.Final Client API example

JAX-RS 2.0 has brought lots of improvement over previous version. One of major improvement is client API which was completely missing in JAX-RS 1.0. While it was easy to write a portable JAX-RS service, each JAX-RS implementation defined their own proprietary API. JAX-RS 2.0 fills in this gap with a fluent, low-level, request building API. Here’s a simple example:

	Client client = ClientFactory.newClient(); 
	WebTarget target = client.target("http://localhost:8080/howtodoinjava"); 
	Form form = new Form().param("customer", "Bill").param("product", "book"); 
	Response response = target.request().post(Entity.form(form)); 
	Order order = response.readEntity(Order.class); 

Above code is JAX-RS 2.0 specific and uses JAX-RS classes. If you are using latest RESTEasy (version 3) build then you can use these lower level JAX-RS 2.0 APIs from RESTEasy abstraction provided by its client API.

JAX-RS RESTEasy APIs

Let’s take an example web-service APIs which we will access in our client code:

	@GET
	@Path("/users")
	@Produces("application/vnd.com.demo.user-management.users+xml;charset=UTF-8;version=1")
	public Users getAllUsers() {
		User user1 = new User();
		user1.setId(1);
		user1.setFirstName("demo");
		user1.setLastName("user");
		user1.setUri("/user-management/users/1");

		User user2 = new User();
		user2.setId(2);
		user2.setFirstName("Mark");
		user2.setLastName("Dwain");
		user2.setUri("/user-management/users/2");

		Users users = new Users();
		users.setUsers(new ArrayList<User>());
		users.getUsers().add(user1);
		users.getUsers().add(user2);

		return users;
	}
	
	@POST
	@Path("/users")
	@Consumes("application/vnd.com.demo.user-management.user+xml;charset=UTF-8;version=1")
	public Response createUser(User user,
			@DefaultValue("false") @QueryParam("allow-admin") boolean allowAdmin)
			throws URISyntaxException {
		System.out.println(user.getFirstName());
		System.out.println(user.getLastName());
		return Response.status(201)
				.contentLocation(new URI("/user-management/users/123")).build();
	}

Client code

Now let’s access these APIs using new client code:

package test.jaxrs2;

import javax.ws.rs.client.Entity;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

import org.jboss.resteasy.client.jaxrs.ResteasyClient;
import org.jboss.resteasy.client.jaxrs.ResteasyClientBuilder;
import org.jboss.resteasy.client.jaxrs.ResteasyWebTarget;

import com.demo.rest.model.User;
import com.demo.rest.model.Users;

public class Demo_JAXRS_2_Example 
{
	public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
		getExample_one();
		getExample_two();
		postExample();
	}

	private static void getExample_one() 
	{
		ResteasyClient client = new ResteasyClientBuilder().build();
        ResteasyWebTarget target = client.target("http://localhost:8080/RESTEasyApplication/user-management/users");
        Response response = target.request().get();
        //Read output in string format
        String value = response.readEntity(String.class);
        System.out.println(value);
        response.close();  
	}
	
	private static void getExample_two()
	{
		ResteasyClient client = new ResteasyClientBuilder().build();
        ResteasyWebTarget target = client.target("http://localhost:8080/RESTEasyApplication/user-management/users");
        Response response = target.request().get();
        //Read the entity
        Users users = response.readEntity(Users.class);
        for(User user : users.getUsers()){
        	System.out.println(user.getId());
        	System.out.println(user.getLastName());
        }
        response.close();  
	}
	
	private static void postExample() 
	{
		User user = new User();
		user.setFirstName("john");
		user.setLastName("Maclane");
		
		ResteasyClient client = new ResteasyClientBuilder().build();
        ResteasyWebTarget target = client.target("http://localhost:8080/RESTEasyApplication/user-management/users");
        Response response = target.request().post(Entity.entity(user, "application/vnd.com.demo.user-management.user+xml;charset=UTF-8;version=1"));
        //Read output in string format
        System.out.println(response.getStatus());
        response.close();  
	}
	
}

Output in console:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<users>
<user id="1" uri="/user-management/users/1"><firstName>demo</firstName><lastName>user</lastName></user>
<user id="2" uri="/user-management/users/2"><firstName>demo</firstName><lastName>user</lastName></user>
</users>
1
user
2
Dwain
201

Maven Configuration

I have used below Maven configuration to run these examples.

  <repositories>
	<repository>
	  <id>jboss</id>
	  <url>http://repository.jboss.org/maven2</url>
	</repository>
  </repositories>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>4.11</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
     <!-- core library -->
	 <dependency>
	    <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
	     <artifactId>resteasy-jaxrs</artifactId>
	    <version>3.0.2.Final</version>
	 </dependency>
	<!-- JAXB support -->
	<dependency>
	  <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
	    <artifactId>resteasy-jaxb-provider</artifactId>
	  <version>3.0.2.Final</version>
	</dependency>
	<dependency>
	    <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
	    <artifactId>jaxrs-api</artifactId>
	    <version>3.0.2.Final</version>
	</dependency>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
		<artifactId>resteasy-client</artifactId>
		<version>3.0.2.Final</version>
	</dependency>
	<dependency>
	    <groupId>net.sf.scannotation</groupId>
	    <artifactId>scannotation</artifactId>
	    <version>1.0.3</version>
	</dependency>
  </dependencies>

To download the source code of above example, follow below link.

Download sourcecode

Happy Learning !!