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Simple Restlet Wrapper Library

A hazzle-free library for making basic HTTP requests. For instance, to get the HTML of this projects frontpage as a String, you could do this:

try {
    String html = Http.get("http://github.com/josteinaj/simple-restlet/").asText();
} catch (HttpException e) {
    // ...
}

Below is the basic API.

Class no.nlb.http.Http

Fields

• static boolean debug - Set to true to enable debugging

Methods

• static HttpResponse get(String url) - Send a GET request.
• static HttpResponse post(String url, Document xml) - POST an XML document.
• static HttpResponse post(String url, Map<String,File> parts) - POST a multipart request.
• static HttpResponse post(String url, String text) - POST a string.
• static String url(String url, Map<String,String> parameters) - Add parameters to a URL.

Class no.nlb.http.HttpResponse

Fields

• String contentType
• int status
• String statusDescription
• String statusName

Methods

• InputStream asStream() - Returns the response body as a InputStream.
• String asText() - Returns the response body as a String.
• Document asXml() - Returns the response body as an XML Document.