I'm working with New Relic REST API
for the first time, I have a curl command:
curl -X GET 'https://api.newrelic.com/v2/applications/appid/metrics/data.json' \
-H 'X-Api-Key:myApiKey' -i \
-d 'names[]=EndUser/WebTransaction/WebTransaction/JSP/index.jsp'
I want to send this command in a java servlet and get a JSON object from the response ready for parsing, What is the best solution?
HttpURLConnection?
Apache httpclient?
I've tried a few different solutions, but nothing has worked so far and most examples I could find are using the depreciated DefaultHttpClient
Here is an example of one of my attempts:
String url = "https://api.newrelic.com/v2/applications.json";
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection();
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
conn.setRequestProperty("X-Api-Key", "myApiKey");
conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
JSONObject names =new JSONObject();
try {
names.put("names[]=", "EndUser/WebTransaction/WebTransaction/JSP/index.jsp");
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
OutputStreamWriter wr= new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(names.toString());
Edit
I've modified the code a bit, it's working now thanks.
String names = "names[]=EndUser/WebTransaction/WebTransaction/JSP/index.jsp";
String url = "https://api.newrelic.com/v2/applications/myAppId/metrics/data.json";
String line;
try (PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter()) {
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection();
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
conn.setRequestProperty("X-Api-Key", "myApiKey");
conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setDoInput(true);
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(names);
wr.flush();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
writer.println(HTML_START + "<h2> NewRelic JSON Response:</h2><h3>" + line + "</h3>" + HTML_END);
}
wr.close();
reader.close();
}catch(MalformedURLException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}