Example to fetch data from the football from the api.football-data.org API

lesson-1

package net.cloudburo.football;

import org.apache.http.*;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

/**
A simple Java REST GET example using the Apache HTTP library.
This executes a call against the api.football-data.org service and
returns a JSON result

 Apache HttpClient: http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/
 **/
public class FootballTestLession1 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();

        //http://api.football-data.org/v1/competitions/?season=2015
        try {
            // specify the host, protocol, and port
            HttpHost target = new HttpHost("api.football-data.org", 80, "http");

            // specify the get reqest
            HttpGet getRequest = new HttpGet("/v1/competitions/?season=2015");

            System.out.println("executing request to " + target);

            HttpResponse httpResponse = httpclient.execute(target, getRequest);
            HttpEntity entity = httpResponse.getEntity();

            System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
            System.out.println(httpResponse.getStatusLine());
            Header[] headers = httpResponse.getAllHeaders();
            for (int i = 0; i < headers.length; i++) {
                System.out.println(headers[i]);
            }
            System.out.println("----------------------------------------");

            if (entity != null) {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            // When HttpClient instance is no longer needed,
            // shut down the connection manager to ensure
            // immediate deallocation of all system resources
            try {
                httpclient.close();
            } catch (Exception e) {}
        }
    }

}