REST is almost always going to be faster. The main advantage of SOAP is that it provides a mechanism for services to describe themselves to clients, and to advertise their existence. REST is much more lightweight and can be implemented using almost any tool, leading to lower bandwidth and shorter learning curve. However, the clients … Read more
This is an old question (2008) so there are many more options now than there were then: Apache CXF has three different REST Client options Jersey (mentioned above). Spring RestTemplate superceded by Spring WebClient Commons HTTP Client build your own for older Java projects. UPDATES (projects still active in 2020): Apache HTTP Components (4.2) Fluent … Read more
HttpClient is the newer of the APIs and it has the benefits of has a good asynchronous programming model being worked on by Henrik F Nielson who is basically one of the inventors of HTTP, and he designed the API so it is easy for you to follow the HTTP standard, e.g. generating standards-compliant headers … Read more
letronje‘s solution only works for very simple pages. document.body.innerHTML += takes the HTML text of the body, appends the iframe HTML, and sets the innerHTML of the page to that string. This will wipe out any event bindings your page has, amongst other things. Create an element and use appendChild instead. $.post(‘/create_binary_file.php’, postData, function(retData) { … Read more
const config = { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` } }; const bodyParameters = { key: “value” }; Axios.post( ‘http://localhost:8000/api/v1/get_token_payloads’, bodyParameters, config ).then(console.log).catch(console.log); The first parameter is the URL. The second is the JSON body that will be sent along your request. The third parameter are the headers (among other things). Which is JSON as … Read more
Using requests: import requests url=”http://ES_search_demo.com/document/record/_search?pretty=true” data=””‘{ “query”: { “bool”: { “must”: [ { “text”: { “record.document”: “SOME_JOURNAL” } }, { “text”: { “record.articleTitle”: “farmers” } } ], “must_not”: [], “should”: [] } }, “from”: 0, “size”: 50, “sort”: [], “facets”: {} }”’ response = requests.post(url, data=data) Depending on what kind of response your API returns, … Read more
We managed to get this working exactly as described in the OP, and hopefully someone else can make use of the solution. Here’s what we did: Set up the security context like so: <security:http realm=”Protected API” use-expressions=”true” auto-config=”false” create-session=”stateless” entry-point-ref=”CustomAuthenticationEntryPoint”> <security:custom-filter ref=”authenticationTokenProcessingFilter” position=”FORM_LOGIN_FILTER” /> <security:intercept-url pattern=”/authenticate” access=”permitAll”/> <security:intercept-url pattern=”/**” access=”isAuthenticated()” /> </security:http> <bean id=”CustomAuthenticationEntryPoint” class=”com.demo.api.support.spring.CustomAuthenticationEntryPoint” … Read more
Here’s an example: @GET @Path(“retrieve/{uuid}”) public Response retrieveSomething(@PathParam(“uuid”) String uuid) { if(uuid == null || uuid.trim().length() == 0) { return Response.serverError().entity(“UUID cannot be blank”).build(); } Entity entity = service.getById(uuid); if(entity == null) { return Response.status(Response.Status.NOT_FOUND).entity(“Entity not found for UUID: ” + uuid).build(); } String json = //convert entity to json return Response.ok(json, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).build(); } Take … Read more
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the new Fetch API, supported by all browsers except IE11 at the time of writing. It simplifies the XMLHttpRequest syntax you see in many of the other examples. The API includes a lot more, but start with the fetch() method. It takes two arguments: A URL or an object representing … Read more
Try selecting send and download instead of send when you make the request. (the blue button) https://www.getpostman.com/docs/responses “For binary response types, you should select Send and download which will let you save the response to your hard disk. You can then view it using the appropriate viewer.”