BBWebClient

Class BBWebClient

java.lang.Object

BBWebClient.BBWebClient

public class BBWebClient
extends Object

A simple class for retrieving content from web servers. A Wrapper for Apache's HttpClient class

Since:

18.0

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BBWebClient()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static String	GetPageContents() Test method that retrieves the local webserver page at http://localhost:8888/
static BBWebResponse	sendRequest(BBWebRequest request!) Sends a request to a webserver and retrieves a response.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BBWebClient

public BBWebClient()

Method Detail

GetPageContents

public static String GetPageContents()

Test method that retrieves the local webserver page at http://localhost:8888/

Returns:

String containing the web page body (HTML code that a browser would normally render)

sendRequest

public static BBWebResponse sendRequest(BBWebRequest request!)

Sends a request to a webserver and retrieves a response. This is performed synchronously and is therefore blocking.

Parameters:

request! - An object containing the requested URI or URL, method, authorization, and any other needed headers.

Returns:

BBWebResponse, an object containing a status code, the body of the response (a web page, JSON content, error text, etc.)