Help using java to access API

[snesbittsea]

I'm looking for a java code example that demonstrates logging in and then accessing the api.

Currently I'm sending an HTTP post along with an HttpContext, but I'm not getting back the expected cookie.

Thanks in advance,

-steve

[DomotikQuebec]

To help you, some code you are using may guide us to what you lack.

[snesbittsea]

I finally got it to work by adding a string representation of a json object to the entity.

Here's my initial code. Based on the API documentation section 3.4.1 I thought this should work. In this case, however, no cookie is returned.(Note that this is written in groovy using the Apache HttpClient library).

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def uri = new URIBuilder()
        .setScheme("http")
        .setHost('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8083')
        .setPath('/ZAutomation/api/v1/login')
        .build()

HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
CookieStore cookies = new BasicCookieStore();
HttpPost request = new HttpPost(uri);
HttpContext httpContext = new BasicHttpContext();
httpContext.setAttribute(HttpClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, cookies);

List <NameValuePair> paramList = new ArrayList <NameValuePair>();
paramList.add(new BasicNameValuePair("login", 'xxxx'));
paramList.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password", 'xxxx'));
request.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(paramList));

response = client.execute(request, httpContext);

Here's the code that finally worked, The difference is that rather than passing in login parameters as key/value pairs, I pass them in in the entity object as a stringified version of a json object.

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uri = new URIBuilder()
    .setScheme("http")
    .setHost('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8083')
    .setPath('/ZAutomation/api/v1/login')
    .build()

HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
CookieStore cookies = new BasicCookieStore();
HttpContext httpContext = new BasicHttpContext();
httpContext.setAttribute(HttpClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, cookies);
String json = '{"form":"true", "login":"xxx","password":"xxx"}';

StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(json)
HttpPost loginRequest = new HttpPost(uri);
loginRequest.setEntity(entity)
loginRequest.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
loginRequest.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");

response = client.execute(loginRequest, httpContext);

[DomotikQuebec]

The problem seems to be the URLEncoding... It is use when you do a GET Request and you want your JSON in the "URL"
When posting, don't ! It will screw your json.
for example, a space will become %20