I have a simple Spring boot project that uses controller mappings to get hard coded information from a class in my project.
For example, if I run the request : localhost:8080/topics, A JSON response is returned with the list of Topic Objects that i have previously created
I want to take this one step further and have a class who's variables are populated by calling this API and parsing the response : https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY&symbol=MSFT&interval=1min&apikey=demo
I believe this can be done in Java by creating a HTTP connection and reading the data from an input stream, but is the an easier way of doing this with spring boot? Im not fully sure of the name of this procedure hence Im having trouble finding solutions online
Since you are using Spring Boot, making use of Spring's RestTemplate makes sense. It comes with several message converters out of the box, and uses Jackson by default for json content.
Spring has published a good Getting Started page for consuming RESTful web services.
However, the json content returned by that services doesn't look like it will map well to a Java object, so you may have to deserialize it to a HashMap to get to the data you want.
I did an attempt to create something like this.
https://github.com/StanislavLapitsky/SpringSOAProxy
The idea is to register controller interfaces. Each of the interfaces are mapped to some URL. For the interfaces a dynamic proxy are generated (if the implementations are not available locally). So developer just call controller's interface method. The method is invoked for dynamically generated proxy. The proxy uses RestTemplate to call remote URL. It sends and receive JSON and deserializes the returned JSOn to POJO objects returned from the controller.
You need to declare contract - controller interfaces plus DTO to exchange data as well as mapping to understand which URL should be called for each controller.
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I have been creating Spring RESTful services for a while and typically I am building my own services so I create domain objects and populate them and the framework takes care of the conversion to JSON.
I have a situation now where I simply need my service to act as a pass through to another system's service that is already RESTful and returns JSON.
URL https://:/service/serviceInfo
Method GET
HTTP Content Type Produces: application/json
I simply want to wrap this call (I will apply some security checks on the service) and pass that JSON returned straight back to my service without mapping it back to Java objects, only to return as JSON to the client. Is there a simple way to do this, with minimal code?
Thanks in advance.
Can you see if this works for you?
#RequestMapping("/child")
public String testMethod(#RequestParam String param) {
return new RestTemplate().exchange("https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json", HttpMethod.GET, null, String.class).getBody();
}
You just replace the url for your own. I can also guide you to using the RestTemplate with POST or DELETE requests etc. if you need. Also adding parameters or headers if you need. I've used it extensively in some projects.
I'm creating a proxy service for translating an existing SOAP Web Service to REST. I mean, to create a REST Controller based on Spring for creating the REST interface that will call the existing SOAP Web Service.
The SOAP response must be translated into JSON on the REST service's response.
The steps I followed were:
I have generated the SOAP WebService classes thanks to CXF
(wsdl2java). OK.
I have created the REST Controller for invoking the existing SOAP WS with the previous classes. OK.
The input JSON parameter corresponds to the SOAP input parameter. Can I reuse the JAXB classes I generated on the wsdl2java process?
So I tried to define the REST controller as:
public #ResponseBody WebServiceJAXBOutput service(#RequestBody WebServiceJAXBInput input){
...
}
Nevertheless, the REST call always returns 400 (Bad request) if I specify the data values. Although it works if the input JSON fields are null:
{
"application":null,
"center":null,
"language":null
}
I guess the JAXB getter/setters are failing because of the JAXBElement (public JAXBElement getApplication()).
Should this approach work? Did I miss something?
Many thanks!!
Sergi
I am using Spring 3.0 and ExtJS. I have been trying to send a Map object from my controller to jsp. When I putting a pojo in HashMap and sending that HashMap to view.
From controller it is returning a Map but in ExtJS it is not able to read the response and gives below error.
HTTP Error code: 406
message
description The resource identified by this request is only capable of generating responses with characteristics not acceptable according to the request "accept" headers ().
Can anyone tell that how this can be resolved?
I dont think you can just shove any POJO into a map and return it via an HttpResponse. That's not how JSON works.
In order to send JSON from Java, you have to do the equivalent of serializing it using a JSON API (or roll your own). FlexJSON is one I use, as it ships in Spring Roo and is pretty easy.
I want to configure my application to send and receive Json objects.I searched on the net I found different solution but whinch one is the best or easy to implement.Things,I want,are to send Object For example ,Category hibernate entity,I want to send List as Json output or , I want to get Category class as Json Object and I'll save it database in my controller function.
You have to implement a message converter in Spring.
Refer to http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/remoting.html#rest-message-conversion (JSON messageconverter already exists in Spring 3.0.5 release)
Hello.
I've written a SOAP-webservice using JAX-WS and JAX-B, running on a JBoss 5.
Due to the overhead of SOAP I now try to enable the access to the webservice via JSON (but it should still be available via SOAP).
My question now is the following:
Is it possible to use the same webservice class (with the, via JaxB defined, bean class as parameter) for both endpoints?
Can I also use JAX-B to parse the JSON input / output at the same bean as I use it for the SOAP transfer?
And if it is possible: How? Or where should I start?