RESTful call testing in Eclipse

Question

In my case, I am running a eclipse project providing the Restful api, and I will call that api like in the following example. I am curious if I should create another project in the eclipse to run the following code to test the api.

Jersey Example

Form form = new Form();
form.add("x", "foo");
form.add("y", "bar");

Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();

WebTarget resource = client.target("http://localhost:8080/someresource");

Builder request = resource.request();
request.accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);

Response response = request.get();

if (response.getStatusInfo().getFamily() == Family.SUCCESSFUL) {
    System.out.println("Success! " + response.getStatus());
    System.out.println(response.getEntity());
} else {
    System.out.println("ERROR! " + response.getStatus());    
    System.out.println(response.getEntity());
}

you dont need to create another project you can create just a main class in your eclipse project — EL missaoui habib, Apr 20 '16 at 08:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 20 '16 at 08:57

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you can run your code as a java application using main method.

Or since you are saying you have you services running you can use POSTMAN REST Client available as a plugin for chrome and chromium browsers. i don't know about the support for the same in other browsers.

Using postman you'll be able to see exactly how your restful service is working. you'll be able to send request headers and other parameters as a part of the rest request. Postman is the way to go for end to end web service testing.

answered Apr 20 '16 at 08:57

Abhishek

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Thanks for your suggestion. – OPfan Apr 20 '16 at 09:08
is it helpful? If yes then dont forget to mark this answer as the correct one. else please comment. – Abhishek Apr 20 '16 at 09:09
My reputation is not enough and it is helpful – OPfan Apr 20 '16 at 09:33
reputation not enough to accept this answer is correct?? is it possible??? your own question... – Abhishek Apr 20 '16 at 09:45
I have written a main class yet, but it doesn't work at all. The eclipse did not even print a sample line. – OPfan Apr 20 '16 at 10:28

RESTful call testing in Eclipse

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