REST clients for Java, MySQL and JSON Restful Web Services

This is the second part of the tutorial which demonstrates Restful web service using Java, MySQL and JSON. In this tutorial we are going to create several REST clients for our web service. You can download each REST client project. Each REST client is going to parse the JSON response and display output.

Java REST client
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We use Java SE application as our client. To parse JSON, gson library is added to project /lib folder Also it is included in project build path as an external JAR.

Course.java - data bound model class

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public class Course
{
private int id;
private String name;
private String duration;
private double fee;

public Course()
{

}

public Course(int id, String name, String duration, double fee)
{
super();
this.id = id;
this.name = name;
this.duration = duration;
this.fee = fee;
}

public int getId()
{
return id;
}

public void setId(int id)
{
this.id = id;
}

public String getName()
{
return name;
}

public void setName(String name)
{
this.name = name;
}

public String getDuration()
{
return duration;
}

public void setDuration(String duration)
{
this.duration = duration;
}

public double getFee()
{
return fee;
}

public void setFee(double fee)
{
this.fee = fee;
}

@Override
public String toString()
{
return "Course [id=" + id + ", name=" + name + ", duration=" + duration
+ ", fee=" + fee + "]";
}

}

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Main.java

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package com;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.JsonArray;
import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
import com.google.gson.JsonParser;

public class Main
{

/**
* @param args
* @throws Exception
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
String json = readUrl("http://localhost:8080/RestProject/Rest/courseService/courses");
Gson gson = new Gson();
JsonParser jsonParser = new JsonParser();
JsonArray courseArray = jsonParser.parse(json).getAsJsonArray();
List<Course> coursesList = new ArrayList<Course>();
for (JsonElement course : courseArray)
{
Course courseObj = gson.fromJson(course, Course.class);
coursesList.add(courseObj);
}

for (Course courseObj : coursesList)
{
System.out.println("ID : " + courseObj.getId());
System.out.println("Course Name : " + courseObj.getName());
System.out.println("Duration : " + courseObj.getDuration());
System.out.println("Course fee : " + courseObj.getFee());
}

}

private static String readUrl(String urlString) throws Exception
{
BufferedReader reader = null;
try
{
URL url = new URL(urlString);
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
int read;
char[] chars = new char[1024];
while ((read = reader.read(chars)) != -1)
buffer.append(chars, 0, read);

return buffer.toString();
} finally
{
if (reader != null)
reader.close();
}

}
}

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PHP REST client
CURL or file_get_contents() can be used to get JSON  from the web service URL.

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$json = file_get_contents("http://localhost:8080/RestProject/Rest/courseService/courses");
$json_o = json_decode($json);

$msg .= "";
foreach($json_o as $item)
{
$msg .= "Course ID : ". $item->id. "<br>";
$msg .= "Course Name : ". $item->name. "<br>";
$msg .= "Duration  : ". $item->duration. "<br>";
$msg .= "Course fee : ". $item->fee. "<br><br>";
}
echo $msg;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost:8080/RestProject/Rest/courseService/courses");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
$json = curl_exec($ch);
$json_o = json_decode($json);

$msg .= "";
foreach($json_o as $item)
{
$msg .= "Course ID : ". $item->id. "<br>";
$msg .= "Course Name : ". $item->name. "<br>";
$msg .= "Duration  : ". $item->duration. "<br>";
$msg .= "Course fee : ". $item->fee. "<br><br>";
}
echo $msg;
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Android REST client

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