javax.ws.rs.client
Interface Client

All Known Implementing Classes:

ResteasyClient

public interface Client

Client is the main entry point to the fluent API used to build and execute client requests in order to consume responses returned.

Clients are heavy-weight objects that manage the client-side communication infrastructure. Initialization as well as disposal of a Client instance may be a rather expensive operation. It is therefore advised to construct only a small number of Client instances in the application. Client instances must be properly closed before being disposed to avoid leaking resources.

Since:

2.0

Author:

Marek Potociar

See Also:

Configuration

Method Summary

void	close() Close client instance and all it's associated resources.
Configuration	configuration() Get access to the underlying configuration of the client instance.
Invocation.Builder	invocation(Link link) Build an invocation builder from a link.
WebTarget	target(Link link) Build a new web resource target.
WebTarget	target(String uri) Build a new web resource target.
WebTarget	target(URI uri) Build a new web resource target.
WebTarget	target(UriBuilder uriBuilder) Build a new web resource target.

Method Detail

close

void close()

Close client instance and all it's associated resources. Subsequent calls have no effect and are ignored. Once the client is closed, invoking any other method on the client instance would result in an IllegalStateException being thrown.

Calling this method effectively invalidates all resource targets produced by the client instance. Invoking any method on such targets once the client is closed would result in an IllegalStateException being thrown.

configuration

Configuration configuration()

Get access to the underlying configuration of the client instance.

Returns:

a mutable client configuration.

target

WebTarget target(String uri)
                 throws IllegalArgumentException,
                        NullPointerException

Build a new web resource target.

Parameters:

uri - web resource URI. May contain template parameters. Must not be null.

Returns:

web resource target bound to the provided URI.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - in case the supplied string is not a valid URI template.

NullPointerException - in case the supplied argument is null.

target

WebTarget target(URI uri)
                 throws NullPointerException

Build a new web resource target.

Parameters:

uri - web resource URI. Must not be null.

Returns:

web resource target bound to the provided URI.

Throws:

NullPointerException - in case the supplied argument is null.

target

WebTarget target(UriBuilder uriBuilder)
                 throws NullPointerException

Build a new web resource target.

Parameters:

uriBuilder - web resource URI represented as URI builder. Must not be null.

Returns:

web resource target bound to the provided URI.

Throws:

NullPointerException - in case the supplied argument is null.

target

WebTarget target(Link link)
                 throws NullPointerException

Build a new web resource target.

Parameters:

link - link to a web resource. Must not be null.

Returns:

web resource target bound to the linked web resource.

Throws:

NullPointerException - in case the supplied argument is null.

invocation

Invocation.Builder invocation(Link link)
                              throws NullPointerException

Build an invocation builder from a link. It uses the URI and the type of the link to initialize the invocation builder. The type is used as the initial value for the HTTP Accept header, if present.

Parameters:

link - link to build invocation from. Must not be null.

Returns:

newly created invocation builder.

Throws:

NullPointerException - in case link is null.