Building an API Client

HTTP-Client is built to be extendable and allow building api clients and prevent you from writing any useless boilerplate code.

Extending the HTTPClient class

To get started simply create your api class and extend the HTTPClient class and use the constructor to set default properties associated with your api.

public class PetstoreAPI extends HTTPClient {

    public PetstoreAPI(String token) {
        setBaseUrl("https://api.example.com/v1");
        bearer(token);
    }

    public Dog[] getDogs() {
        return get("/dogs").object(Dog[].class);
    }

}

As you see there is a neat method called object that takes the datatype and will try to automatically coerce the response into it. It uses the AbstractData library which has support for different data formats like json, yaml, form-data and more.