A rest client example using the apache http library

RestClient.java

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package com.learningcurve.mb.restclient;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;

/**
 * Example of how to use rest apis with Java using 
 * apache http library
 * @author mb
 */
public class restTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        HttpClientBuilder httpcb = HttpClientBuilder.create();
        CloseableHttpClient httpclient = httpcb.build();
        HttpPost req = new HttpPost("http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts");
        //HttpGet req = new HttpGet("http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1");

        ArrayList<NameValuePair> postParameters;
        postParameters = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
        postParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("title", "foo"));
        postParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("body", "bar"));
        postParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("userId", "1"));
        req.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(postParameters));
        CloseableHttpResponse resp = httpclient.execute(req);
        HttpEntity entity = resp.getEntity();
        InputStream in = entity.getContent();
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
        String line;
        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(line);
        }
        br.close();

    }
}