HTTPBuilder (or other) Library with Grails

[Joshua Kehn]

I'm writing some code against another API and I need to make HTTP calls. What is the most commonly used / “best” library for doing this?

The last time I did this in PHP I used cURL, which was less elegant then I care to admit.

Regards,

–Josh
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http://joshuakehn.com

[bksaville]

There is the rest client plugin which uses HTTPBuilder underneath, but
Graeme just released the rest client builder plugin
(http://grails.org/plugin/rest-client-builder) which does the same thing
using Spring's RestTemplate underneath.  I would honestly take this one
over the HTTPBuilder one as I've had more many dependency issues with
HttpBuilder depending on an old version of http-client than I care to
count.

I've used Graeme's plugin, and it works great as far as I can tell.

HTH,
Brian

From: Joshua Kehn [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 8:37 AM
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Subject: [grails-user] HTTPBuilder (or other) Library with Grails

I'm writing some code against another API and I need to make HTTP calls.
What is the most commonly used / "best" library for doing this?

The last time I did this in PHP I used cURL, which was less elegant then I
care to admit.

Regards,

-Josh
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Joshua Kehn | @joshkehn
http://joshuakehn.com

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[Jean Barmash 1]

Josh,

Are you talking about something like HTTP builder?

http://groovy.codehaus.org/modules/http-builder/

There is also apache components:
http://hc.apache.org/

Lastly, for simple stuff (or prototyping), you may be able to use just simple groovy, especially with XMLSlurper or JSONSlurpers.


Thanks,

Jean

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Joshua Kehn <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'm writing some code against another API and I need to make HTTP calls. What is the most commonly used / “best” library for doing this?

The last time I did this in PHP I used cURL, which was less elegant then I care to admit.

Regards,

–Josh
____________________________________
Joshua Kehn | @joshkehn
http://joshuakehn.com

[Joshua Kehn]

HTTP builder is exactly what I'm looking at. I was checking to see if there was something else I hadn't found.

Thanks,

–Josh
____________________________________
Joshua Kehn | @joshkehn
http://joshuakehn.com

On Mar 26, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Jean Barmash wrote:

Josh,

Are you talking about something like HTTP builder?

http://groovy.codehaus.org/modules/http-builder/

There is also apache components:
http://hc.apache.org/

Lastly, for simple stuff (or prototyping), you may be able to use just simple groovy, especially with XMLSlurper or JSONSlurpers.


Thanks,

Jean

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Joshua Kehn <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'm writing some code against another API and I need to make HTTP calls. What is the most commonly used / “best” library for doing this?

The last time I did this in PHP I used cURL, which was less elegant then I care to admit.

Regards,

–Josh
____________________________________
Joshua Kehn | @joshkehn
http://joshuakehn.com

[rlovtangen]

I used to use HTTP builder, but now I prefer groovy-wslite: https://github.com/jwagenleitner/groovy-wslite

Easy to use for REST, no external dependencies.

Ronny

On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Joshua Kehn wrote:

HTTP builder is exactly what I'm looking at. I was checking to see if there was something else I hadn't found.

Thanks,

–Josh
____________________________________
Joshua Kehn | @joshkehn
http://joshuakehn.com

On Mar 26, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Jean Barmash wrote:

Josh,

Are you talking about something like HTTP builder?

http://groovy.codehaus.org/modules/http-builder/

There is also apache components:
http://hc.apache.org/

Lastly, for simple stuff (or prototyping), you may be able to use just simple groovy, especially with XMLSlurper or JSONSlurpers.


Thanks,

Jean

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Joshua Kehn <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'm writing some code against another API and I need to make HTTP calls. What is the most commonly used / “best” library for doing this?

The last time I did this in PHP I used cURL, which was less elegant then I care to admit.

Regards,

–Josh
____________________________________
Joshua Kehn | @joshkehn
http://joshuakehn.com