I’ve got a program that makes use of the java.net.http.HttpClient, which was introduced in Java 11, to connect and send requests to internal services. These services are mutually authenticated, both presenting certificates issued by an internal CA. For example, On our hosts, the client’s certificate and private key get rotated pretty regularly, more often than the host or application gets
Tag: java-http-client
How / where to check for java.net.http.HttpClient HTTP response status codes
Java 11’s java.net.http.HttpClient does not seem to check the HTTP status code, except for redirects (if enabled). And all examples found in the wiki and in the Java API documentation always assume that HTTP requests are successful, i.e. they never seem to check the status code of the response. This is most likely never the desired behavior because an error
How to send a PUT request with multipart/form-data body with Java Http Client?
I am using the HttpClient and HttpRequest available on java.net.http. I have successfully sent some GET and POST requests, but I have no clue about how to send a PUT/POST request with multipart/form-data body: The curl equivalent of this request would be something like: Should I use some kind of BodyPublishers in the POST() or PUT() method in order to
How to map a JSON response to a Java class using Java 11 HttpClient and Jackson?
I’m new to the Java 11 HttpClient and would like to give it a try. I have a simple GET request that return JSON and I would like to map the JSON response to a Java class called Questionnaire. I understand that I can turn the response out of box into a String or an input stream like this How
Java 11: New HTTP client send POST requests with x-www-form-urlencoded parameters
I’m trying to send a POST request using the new http client api. Is there a built in way to send parameters formatted as x-www-form-urlencoded ? My current code: What I’m looking is for a better way to pass the parameters. Something like this: Do I need to build myself this functionality or is something already built in? I’m using