From the course: Java EE 8: Web Services
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Synchronous REST service client - Java EE Tutorial
From the course: Java EE 8: Web Services
Synchronous REST service client
- [Instructor] I've shown how to hit a RESTful service with Postman, JavaScript and from a web page. Now, you need to do it programmatically in Java. This video will show you how to call a REST resource with the JAX-RS API. It's going to be a synchronous call. What that means is that the calling thread, i.e. your client code is blocked, until either a response comes back from the service or the request has terminated by a timeout. The journey begins where everything life does in the Java class. So let's go overhead to the project. I want a new class. Now, under the package I want it in a client sub package under the REST hierarchy. For the name we'll call a SyncRESTClient. Hit the Finish button and we're done. I want to add a main method to kick start everything, public static void main(String[] args). Then the heavy lifting I will do that in a private static void syncClientCall, no arguments and there. I'm…
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