Cactoos-HTTP is a experimental HTTP client, fully object-oriented.

These are the design principles behind Cactoos-HTTP.

All you need is this:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.cactoos</groupId>
  <artifactId>cactoos-http</artifactId>
  <version><!-- Get it here: https://github.com/yegor256/cactoos-http/releases --></version>
</dependency>

Java version required: 1.8+.

StackOverflow tag is cactoos.

We are well aware of competitors (most likely they are more powerful than our client, but less object-oriented):

• JDK HTTP Client
• Apache HttpClient
• JCabi-Http
• Google HTTP Java Client
• Unirest
• OkHttp

How to use

Ht stands for HTTP. We are not using Http just in order to look a bit different than all other libraries.

To make a simple HTTP GET request and read its body:

String body = new TextOf(
  new HtBody(
    new HtResponse(
      "http://www.google.com"
    )
  )
).asString();

This one sends a PUT request with a multi-part form and reads back some headers and the response code (mind the usage of StickyInput):

Input head = new StickyInput(
  new HtHead(
    new HtResponse(
      new HtWire("www.example.com"),
      new Joined(
        "\n\r",
        "PUT / HTTP/1.1",
        "Host: www.example.com"
      ).asString()
    )
  )
);
int status = new HtStatus(head).intValue();
Map<String, String> headers = new HtHeaders(head);

Questions

Ask your questions related to cactoos library on Stackoverflow with cactoos tag.

How to contribute?

Just fork the repo and send us a pull request.

Make sure your branch builds without any warnings/issues:

mvn clean install -Pqulice

License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2018 Yegor Bugayenko

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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