- Bee Client is a Scala API that wraps the standard
java.net.URLcapability for making HTTP requests more easily. - ...Much more easily!
It is written in Scala but may be called (a lot less easily) from Java also.
Simply create an HttpClient instance and get / post / whatever your requests.
val httpClient = new HttpClient
val response: Response = httpClient.get("http://www.google.com/")
println(response.status)
println(response.body.asString)
More examples follow in the tutorial.
- Simple to use - provides easy programmatic HTTP client calls, handling the necessary headers and body data.
- Light-weight - not much code; doesn't get in the way.
- Fast performance and low memory footprint.
- Easy handling of headers - both for requests and responses; both with simple values and with complex structure.
- Flexible and efficient handling of content (entity) bodies, along with the media type and character encoding. UTF-8 is used as the default character encoding.
- Request entity bodies can be streamed in. Response entity bodies can be streamed out.
- Complete implementation: all HTTP methods and headers are supported.
- Standards-compliance builds on
HttpURLConnectionand in some ways improves on it. - HTTPS is supported (based upon
javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection) - Cookies are supported. They are held in immutable cookie jars gleaned from response headers (or created programmatically) and then sent back with subsequent requests.
- Automatic Redirection preserves cookies (unlike using
HttpURLConnectiondirectly). - Full awareness of proxies.
- Arbitrary multi-threading is possible because all shared state is held in immutable values.
- No additional threads are imposed - you decide what you need.
- No 'static' variables are used, so multiple configurations can co-exist within a JVM.
- Tested against a range of servers: Apache2, Nginx, Lighttpd, Cherokee, Tomcat7.
- The number of external dependencies is minimised (currently: slf4j, servlet-api).
- See the issue tracker
Several new features are under consideration for future versions.
See https://bitbucket.org/rickb777/bee-client/issues?status=new&status=open
