Creating a Web Service in JavaEE

Question

I'm new to creating web services in Java, thus the question.

I have an object,

public class Course {

    private int _id;
    private String _name;
    private Person _person;
}

I have data about the object stored in a file, which I've already parsed and stored in a local array list.

My DataService object does this.

public DataService(){

        _personList = new ArrayList<>();
        _courseList = new ArrayList<>();

        //logic to parse data and read into a QueryHandler object.

        _handler = new QueryHandler(_personList, _courseList);

    }

Now this data service has a GET method which displays the list of all courses.

   @GET
    @Produces("application/JSON")
    public ArrayList<Course> getAllCourses(){
        return _handler.getAllCourses();

    }

My question is how do I expose this method as an endpoint, so that the caller can get a link like example.com/getAllCourses or something like example.com/getCourseById/21(method already created) which will return the data in JSON format ?

Laurent-P · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-31 16:54:02Z

1

You have to add @Path("/course") to your class and change your method to

@GET
@Path("/getAllCourses")
@Produces("application/JSON")
public ArrayList<Course> getAllCourses(){
    return _handler.getAllCourses();

}

And if you want to get a specific id you'll write

@GET
@Path("getCourseById/{id}")
@Produces("application/JSON")
@Consumes("application/JSON")
public Course getCourseById(@PathParam("id") int id){
    return _handler.getCourseById(id);

}

The path will be host.com/course/getAllCourses or host.com/course/getCourseByid/1 for example

Here is a doc' about it JAX-RS

answered Mar 31, 2016 at 16:54

Laurent-P

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4 Comments

Zeus Over a year ago

Just one doubt, my application is using GlassFish as a server, how do I access these API's on a browser.

Laurent-P Over a year ago

Are you using maven?

Zeus Over a year ago

Nope I'm using the Gradle build system.

Laurent-P Over a year ago

(Late answer) You have to type the URL ;)

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