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Java client for restful web service using java.net package


In this page you will come to know how to create java client for restful web services using java.net package. We will have two sections here, the first section talks about how to connect to "GET" request, and the second section shows how to connect to "POST" type of requests.

We are referring to the previous example as a restful web services.

Java Client for GET Request

package com.java2novice.rest.client;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

public class RestJavaNetClient {

	public static void main(String a[]){
		
		String url = "http://localhost:8080/RestfulWebServices/order-inventory/order/1016";
		HttpURLConnection urlConn = null;
		BufferedReader reader = null;
		try {
			URL urlObj = new URL(url);
			urlConn = (HttpURLConnection) urlObj.openConnection();
			urlConn.setRequestMethod("GET");
			urlConn.setConnectTimeout(5000);
			urlConn.setReadTimeout(5000);
			urlConn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
			if (urlConn.getResponseCode() != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
				System.err.println("Unable to connect to the URL...");
				return;
			}
			System.out.println("Connected to the server...");
			InputStream is = urlConn.getInputStream();
			reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader((is)));
			System.out.println("Reading data from server...");
			String tmpStr = null;
			while((tmpStr = reader.readLine()) != null){
				System.out.println(tmpStr);
			}
		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} finally {
			try {
				if(reader != null) reader.close();
				if(urlConn != null) urlConn.disconnect();
			} catch(Exception ex){
				
			}
		}
	}
}

The output for above code is:

Output:
Connected to the server...
Reading data from server...
{"custmer":"Java2Novice","address":"Bangalore","bill-amount":"$2000"}

Java Client for POST Request

In this example you will see how to send json input through java client using POST method:

package com.java2novice.rest.client;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

public class PostJavaNetClient {

	public static void main(String a[]){
		
		String url = "http://localhost:8080/RestfulWebServices/order-inventory/order";
		HttpURLConnection urlConn = null;
		BufferedReader reader = null;
		OutputStream ouputStream = null;
		String jsonInput = "{\"custmer\":\"Java2novice\",\"address\":\"Bangalore\","+
							"\"bill-amount\":\"$2000\"}";
		try {
			URL urlObj = new URL(url);
			urlConn = (HttpURLConnection) urlObj.openConnection();
			urlConn.setDoOutput(true);
			urlConn.setRequestMethod("POST");
			urlConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
			urlConn.setConnectTimeout(5000);
			urlConn.setReadTimeout(5000);
			urlConn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
			// send json input request
			ouputStream = urlConn.getOutputStream();
			ouputStream.write(jsonInput.getBytes());
			ouputStream.flush();
			if (urlConn.getResponseCode() != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
				System.err.println("Unable to connect to the URL...");
				return;
			}
			System.out.println("Connected to the server...");
			InputStream is = urlConn.getInputStream();
			reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader((is)));
			String tmpStr = null;
			while((tmpStr = reader.readLine()) != null){
				System.out.println(tmpStr);
			}
		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} finally {
			try {
				if(reader != null) reader.close();
				if(urlConn != null) urlConn.disconnect();
			} catch(Exception ex){
				
			}
		}
	}
}

The output for above code is:

Output:
Connected to the server...
Your order is in-progress
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Knowledge Centre
What is abstract class or abstract method?
We cannot create instance for an abstract class. We can able to create instance for its subclass only. By specifying abstract keyword just before class, we can make a class as abstract class.

public abstract class MyAbstractClass{

}

Abstract class may or may not contains abstract methods. Abstract method is just method signature, it does not containes any implementation. Its subclass must provide implementation for abstract methods. Abstract methods are looks like as given below:

public abstract int getLength();
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I'm Nataraja Gootooru, programmer by profession and passionate about technologies. All examples given here are as simple as possible to help beginners. The source code is compiled and tested in my dev environment.

If you come across any mistakes or bugs, please email me to [email protected].

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