Package utility

Class UtilRest

java.lang.Object

utility.UtilRest

public class UtilRest
extends Object

Utility Class for Rest related static helper methods.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Frank Giordano

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
UtilRest()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static void	checkHttpErrors(Response response)	Return specialized http error message
static Object	getJsonResponseEntity(org.apache.http.HttpResponse httpResponse)	Retrieve response JSON entity content from httpResponse object
static Object	getTextResponseEntity(org.apache.http.HttpResponse httpResponse)	Retrieve response text entity content from httpResponse object
static boolean	isHttpError(int statusCode)	Checks if statusCode is a valid http code or not
static boolean	isUrlValid(String url)	Checks if url is a valid http or https url.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

UtilRest

public UtilRest()

Method Detail

getJsonResponseEntity

public static Object getJsonResponseEntity(org.apache.http.HttpResponse httpResponse)
                                    throws Exception

Retrieve response JSON entity content from httpResponse object

Parameters:

httpResponse - HttpResponse object

Returns:

response Json entity content

Throws:

Exception - due to extracting entity or parsing entity problem

getTextResponseEntity

public static Object getTextResponseEntity(org.apache.http.HttpResponse httpResponse)
                                    throws Exception

Retrieve response text entity content from httpResponse object

Parameters:

httpResponse - HttpResponse object

Returns:

response text entity content

Throws:

Exception - due to extracting entity or parsing entity problem

checkHttpErrors

public static void checkHttpErrors(Response response)
                            throws Exception

Return specialized http error message

Parameters:

response - Response object

Throws:

Exception - containing specialized http error message

isHttpError

public static boolean isHttpError(int statusCode)

Checks if statusCode is a valid http code or not

Parameters:

statusCode - http code value

Returns:

boolean value

isUrlValid

public static boolean isUrlValid(String url)

Checks if url is a valid http or https url.

The method will create a URL object from the specified string representation. A MalformedURLException will be thrown if no protocol is specified, or an unknown protocol is found, or spec is null which will result in a false value to be returned. Then a call the toURI() method is made that throws a URISyntaxException if the URL is not formatted strictly according to RFC 2396 and cannot be converted to a URI which will result in a false value to be returned.

Parameters:

url - value

Returns:

boolean value