How to call a REST service in webMethods Integration Server from commons-httpclient

Scenario
Assume I had created two REST Resources in webMethods, one is via HTTP Post method, another one is by HTTP Get method.

How do I test them by commons-httpclient?


How-to
Add two dependencies in your pom.xml

    <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
        <version>3.1</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
        <version>2.5</version>
    </dependency>

Here has sample code to demonstrate how to send  HTTP Post method and HTTP Get method using commons-httpclient:

package albert.practice.httpClient;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.Credentials;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

import com.google.common.base.Charsets;

public class HttpClientExample {

    private String post_uri = "http://10.12.14.28:5555/rest/test.restful.RestTest2";
    private String get_uri = "http://10.12.14.28:5555/rest/test.restful.RestTest3";
    private String inputJson = "{\"ip\":\"10.10.12.66\",\"state\": \"OFFLINE\"}";

    /**
     * Implements the HTTP POST method.
     * 
     * @return response code
     * @throws HttpException
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public int sendPost() throws HttpException, IOException {
        AuthScope authScope = getAuthScope();
        Credentials credentials = getCredentials();

        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        client.getState().setCredentials(authScope, credentials);

        PostMethod postMethod = new PostMethod(post_uri);
        postMethod.setDoAuthentication(true);
        postMethod.setParameter("data", inputJson);

        return client.executeMethod(postMethod);
    }

    /**
     * Implements the HTTP GET method.
     * 
     * @return the response string of the HTTP method
     * @throws HttpException
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public String sendGet() throws HttpException, IOException {
        String responseString = "";

        AuthScope authScope = getAuthScope();
        Credentials credentials = getCredentials();

        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        client.getState().setCredentials(authScope, credentials);

        GetMethod getMethod = new GetMethod(get_uri + "?input=albert");
        getMethod.setDoAuthentication(true);

        int statusCode = client.executeMethod(getMethod);
        if (HttpStatus.SC_OK == statusCode) {
            responseString = IOUtils.toString(getMethod.getResponseBodyAsStream(), Charsets.UTF_8);
        }
        return responseString;
    }

    /**
     * Set authentication scope.
     * 
     * @return authentication scope
     */
    private AuthScope getAuthScope() {
        String ip = "10.12.14.28";
        int port = 5555;
        String realm = AuthScope.ANY_REALM;

        AuthScope authScope = new AuthScope(ip, port, realm);
        return authScope;
    }

    /**
     * Set the authentication credentials for the given scope.
     * 
     * @return credentials
     */
    private Credentials getCredentials() {
        String username = "cctv";
        String password = "cctv";
        Credentials credentials = new UsernamePasswordCredentials(username, password);
        return credentials;
    }

}

Here has the test code:

package albert.practice.httpClient;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

public class HttpClientExampleTest {

    private HttpClientExample httpClientExample;

    @Before
    public void setup() {
        httpClientExample = new HttpClientExample();
    }

    @Test
    public void testSendPost() throws HttpException, IOException {
        int statusCode = httpClientExample.sendPost();
        assertEquals(HttpStatus.SC_OK, statusCode);
    }

    @Test
    public void testSendGet() throws HttpException, IOException {
        String responseString = httpClientExample.sendGet();
        System.out.println("responseString = " + responseString);
        assertNotNull(responseString);
    }

}