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Consuming A Service in Java

This document provides instructions for consuming web services in Java using Eclipse IDE. It details how to create a Dynamic Web Project, generate a web service client from a WSDL URL, and write code to call methods on the client to invoke the web service. It also provides examples of how to consume RESTful services using either the Jersey API or directly making HTTP requests using URLConnection.

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Consuming A Service in Java

This document provides instructions for consuming web services in Java using Eclipse IDE. It details how to create a Dynamic Web Project, generate a web service client from a WSDL URL, and write code to call methods on the client to invoke the web service. It also provides examples of how to consume RESTful services using either the Jersey API or directly making HTTP requests using URLConnection.

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Consuming a Web

Service(SOAP and
RESTful) in Java
Cheat Sheet For Consuming Services in Java
This document will provide a user the capability to create an
application to consume a sample web service (Both SOAP and
RESTful) in Java using the following technologies
1> Eclipse IDE
Karan Moodbidri and Amey Gawde
7/25/2013

Prerequisites :
Before we start with the process of consuming web services
Eclipse IDE (Kepler preferred - Can be Downloaded from here - Link )

Consuming a Web Service in Java

Open Eclipse IDE


Click on New
Go to the Pop up Option 'Other'

Search for Dynamic Web Project

Select The same options as in the image

Click Next

Click Next

Click Finish
Click on Project
Click on New
Click On other

Select Web Service Client


Enter WSDL Link in the Textbox

Click Next

Click Finish

Now we need to write Code to Consume the Service.

Click on Project
Right Click on Java Resources in the Project Tree Structure
Click on New
Click on Class
Select the Same options as given in the Picture

Click on Finish
You will have a java program open in front of you
Go to java resources
Go into src
Check the name of the package other than the package you created
Go into the package

Remember to Check the name of the file with Proxy in the end.
Now import the WS package into your java program

Now Create an object of the proxy class you previously checked


Call the function of the web service with the object of the proxy class and print it.
Code should look like this:
public static void main(String[] args) throws RemoteException {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
WeatherSoapProxy wc = new WeatherSoapProxy();
System.out.println(wc.getCityForecastByZIP("14623").getForecastResult()
[0].getTemperatures().getMorningLow());
}

Run the program


You have successfully Created a web client for the SOAP service.

Creating Client for RESTful Services

Open Eclipse IDE


Click on New
Go to the Pop up Option 'Other'

Search for Dynamic Web Project

Select The same options as in the image

Click Next

Click Next

Click Finish
Click on Project
Right Click on Java Resources in the Project Tree Structure
Click on New
Click on Class
Select the Same options as given in the Picture

Click on Finish
You will have a java program open in front of you
You will need to include the following two packages

import com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client;

import com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource;
Follow the code given Below :
Note: The String held by variable apiCall should be the URL to the RESTful Service.
Client client = Client.create();
String apiCall = null;
apiCall = "http://www.exampleRestApi/q=";
WebResource webResource = client.resource(apiCall);
String outputString = webResource.get(String.class);
System.out.println(outputString);

You have created a client for your RESTful Service.

We can Consume a REST based Service without using the Jersey API. I will be providing the
instructions Below.

We would First Create a a Normal Java Project.


For that , Click File
Click New
Click Java Project

Enter the Name of the project


Click Finish
Right Click On Project
Click on New
Click on Class
Select the Same options as given in the Picture

Click on Finish
Now I would go through the code
First we will create a URL variable to store the URL for the Rest Service.
Example code :
URL

url = new URL("http://www.omdbapi.com/?s=Titanic");

We open a HTTP Connection on that URL. We set the requestMethod to "GET" and we
connect to the Rest Service.
Example Code:
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
connection.connect();

We now to have read data from the rest service input stream
Example Code:
BufferedReader bufferReader = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));

Then we read the data from the stream into s String buffer to printed onto the console.
Example Code:
String str;
StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
while ((str = bufferReader.readLine()) != null) {
stringBuffer.append(str);
stringBuffer.append("\n");
}
System.out.println(stringBuffer.toString());

We have successfully consumed a service. The code entire code is as below. :


URL

url = new URL("http://www.omdbapi.com/?s=Titanic");


HttpURLConnection connection =
(HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
connection.connect();
BufferedReader bufferReader = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(connection
.getInputStream()));
String str;
StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
while ((str = bufferReader.readLine()) != null) {
stringBuffer.append(str);
stringBuffer.append("\n");
}
System.out.println(stringBuffer.toString());

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