Spring RestTemplate w/ Basic Auth

1_pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	
	
	
		<!-- Http Client -->
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
			<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
			<version>4.1</version>
		</dependency>
</project>

2_Example.java

import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicCredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender;
import org.apache.log4j.Level;
import org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout;
import org.springframework.http.client.ClientHttpRequestFactory;
import org.springframework.http.client.HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory;
import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;

public class Example {
	private final RestTemplate template;
	public Stripe(String user, String password) {
		DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
		BasicCredentialsProvider credentialsProvider =  new BasicCredentialsProvider();
		credentialsProvider.setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY, new UsernamePasswordCredentials(user, password);
		httpClient.setCredentialsProvider(credentialsProvider);
		ClientHttpRequestFactory rf = new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory(httpClient);
		
		template = new RestTemplate(rf);
	}

	private <T> T getObject(String url, Class<T> klazz){
		String json = template.getForObject( url(url), String.class);
		return null; // TODO deserialize json String
	}


}