play.libs
Class WS

java.lang.Object
  play.PlayPlugin
      play.libs.WS

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Comparable<PlayPlugin>

public class WS
extends PlayPlugin

Simple HTTP client to make webservices requests.

Get latest BBC World news as a RSS content

    response = WS.GET("http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml");
    Document xmldoc = response.getXml();
    // the real pain begins here...
 

Search what Yahoo! thinks of google (starting from the 30th result).

    response = WS.GET("http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%s&pstart=1&b=%d", "Google killed me", 30 );
    if( response.getStatus() == 200 ) {
       html = response.getString();
    }
 

WS

public WS()

invocationFinally

public void invocationFinally()

Description copied from class: PlayPlugin

Called at the end of the invocation. (even if an exception occured). Time to close request specific things.

Overrides:

invocationFinally in class PlayPlugin

authenticate

public static void authenticate(java.lang.String username,
                                java.lang.String password,
                                java.lang.String url)

define client authentication for a server host provided credentials will be used during the request

Parameters:

username -

password -

url - hostname url or null to authenticate on any hosts

authenticate

public static void authenticate(java.lang.String username,
                                java.lang.String password)

authenticate

public static void authenticate(org.apache.commons.httpclient.Credentials credentials,
                                org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthScope authScope)

GET

public static WS.HttpResponse GET(java.lang.String url,
                                  java.lang.Object... params)

Deprecated. Use WS.url(url, params...).get() instead.

Make a GET request using an url template. If you provide no parameters, the url is left unchanged (no replacements)

Parameters:

url - an URL template with placeholders for parameters

params - a variable list of parameters to be replaced in the template using the String.format(...) syntax

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

GET

public static WS.HttpResponse GET(java.lang.String url,
                                  java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> params)

Deprecated. Use WS.url(url).params(params).get() instead.

Make a GET request using an url template. If you provide no parameters, the url is left unchanged (no replacements)

Parameters:

url - an URL template with placeholders for parameters

params - a variable Map

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

GET

public static WS.HttpResponse GET(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object> headers,
                                  java.lang.String url,
                                  java.lang.Object... params)

Deprecated. Use WS.url(url).params().header().get() instead.

Make a GET request using an url template. If you provide no parameters, the url is left unchanged (no replacements)

Parameters:

headers - a map of headers to be appended to the request.

url - an template with %s,%d placeholders for parameters.

params - parameters to be replaced in the url template using the String.format(...) syntax

Returns:

HTTP response WS.HttpResponse

POST

public static WS.HttpResponse POST(java.lang.String url,
                                   java.io.File body)

Deprecated. Use WS.url(url).file().post() instead.

Make a POST request.

Parameters:

url - resource URL

body - content to be posted. content-type is guessed from the filename extension.

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

POST

public static WS.HttpResponse POST(java.lang.String url,
                                   java.io.File body,
                                   java.lang.String mimeType)

Deprecated. Use WS.url(url).file().mimetype().post() instead.

Make a POST request

Parameters:

url - resource URL

body - content to be posted

mimeType - the content type as a mimetype

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

POST

public static WS.HttpResponse POST(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> headers,
                                   java.lang.String url,
                                   java.io.File body)

Deprecated. Use WS.url(url).header().file().post() instead.

Make a POST request

Parameters:

headers - a map of headers to be appended to the request.

url - resource URL

body - content to be posted. content-type is guessed from the filename extension.

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

POST

public static WS.HttpResponse POST(java.lang.String url,
                                   java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object> parameters)

Deprecated. Use WS.url(url).params().post() instead.

Make a POST request

Parameters are encoded using a application/x-www-form-urlencoded scheme. You cannot send multipart/form-data for now.

Parameters:

url - the request URL

parameters - the parameters to be posted

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

POST

public static WS.HttpResponse POST(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object> headers,
                                   java.lang.String url,
                                   java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object> parameters)

Deprecated. Use WS.url(url).params().header().post() instead.

Make a POST request

Parameters are encoded using a application/x-www-form-urlencoded scheme. You cannot send multipart/form-data for now.

Parameters:

headers - the request HTTP headers

url - the request URL

parameters - the parameters to be posted

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

POST

public static WS.HttpResponse POST(java.lang.String url,
                                   java.lang.String body,
                                   java.lang.String mimeType)

Deprecated. Use WS.url(url).params().body().mimetype().post() instead.

POST some text data

Parameters:

url - resource URL

body - text content to be posted "as is", with not encoding

mimeType - the request content-type

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

POST

public static WS.HttpResponse POST(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object> headers,
                                   java.lang.String url,
                                   java.lang.String body)

Deprecated. Use WS.url().headers().body().post() instead

POST some text data

Parameters:

headers - extra request headers

url - resource URL

body - text content to be posted "as is"

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

DELETE

public static WS.HttpResponse DELETE(java.lang.String url)

Deprecated. Use WS.url().delete() instead.

Make a DELETE request

Parameters:

url - resource URL

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

DELETE

public static WS.HttpResponse DELETE(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> headers,
                                     java.lang.String url)

Deprecated. Use WS.url().headers().delete() instead.

Make a DELETE request

Parameters:

headers - extra request headers

url - resource URL

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

HEAD

public static WS.HttpResponse HEAD(java.lang.String url,
                                   java.lang.Object... params)

Deprecated. Use WS.url().head() instead.

Make a HEAD request

Parameters:

url - resource URL

params - query parameters

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

HEAD

public static WS.HttpResponse HEAD(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> headers,
                                   java.lang.String url,
                                   java.lang.Object... params)

Deprecated. Use WS.url().headers().params().head() instead.

Make a HEAD request

Parameters:

headers - extra request headers

url - resource URL

params - query parameters

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

TRACE

public static WS.HttpResponse TRACE(java.lang.String url,
                                    java.lang.Object... params)

Deprecated. Use WS.url().trace() instead.

Make a TRACE request

Parameters:

url - resource URL

params - query parameters

Returns:

server response WS.HttpResponse

TRACE

public static WS.HttpResponse TRACE(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> headers,
                                    java.lang.String url,
                                    java.lang.Object... params)

Deprecated. Use WS.url().headers().params().delete() instead.

Make a TRACE request

Parameters:

headers - extra request headers

url - resource URL

params - query parameters

Returns:

the response

OPTIONS

public static WS.HttpResponse OPTIONS(java.lang.String url,
                                      java.lang.Object... params)

Deprecated. Use WS.url().options() instead.

Make a OPTIONS request

Parameters:

url - resource URL

params - query parameters

Returns:

the OPTIONS response

OPTIONS

public static WS.HttpResponse OPTIONS(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> headers,
                                      java.lang.String url,
                                      java.lang.Object... params)

Deprecated. Use WS.url().headers().params().options() instead.

Make a OPTIONS request

Parameters:

headers - extra request headers

url - resource URL

params - query parameters

Returns:

the OPTIONS response

encode

public static java.lang.String encode(java.lang.String part)

URL-encode an UTF-8 string to be used as a query string parameter.

Parameters:

part - string to encode

Returns:

url-encoded string

url

public static WS.WSRequest url(java.lang.String url)

Build a WebService Request with the given URL. This object support chaining style programming for adding params, file, headers to requests.

Parameters:

url - of the request

Returns:

a WSRequest on which you can add params, file headers using a chaining style programming.

url

public static WS.WSRequest url(java.lang.String url,
                               java.lang.String... params)

Build a WebService Request with the given URL. This constructor will format url using params passed in arguments. This object support chaining style programming for adding params, file, headers to requests.

Parameters:

url - to format using the given params.

params - the params passed to format the URL.

Returns:

a WSRequest on which you can add params, file headers using a chaining style programming.