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Java - Standard HttpClient

Java Standard HttpClient

An enhanced HttpClient API was introduced in Java 9 as an experimental feature. With Java 11, now HttpClient is a standard. It is recommended to use instead of other HTTP Client APIs like Apache Http Client API. It is quite feature rich and now Java based applications can make HTTP requests without using any external dependency.

Steps to Use Java HttpClient

Following are the steps to use an HttpClient.

Create HttpClient instance using HttpClient.newBuilder() instance
Create HttpRequest instance using HttpRequest.newBuilder() instance
Make a request using httpClient.send() and get a response object.

Example of HttpClient

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.time.Duration;

public class APITester {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      HttpClient httpClient = HttpClient.newBuilder()
         .version(HttpClient.Version.HTTP_2)
         .connectTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10))
         .build(); 
         try {
            HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .GET()
            .uri(URI.create("https://www.google.com"))
            .build();                              
            HttpResponse<String> response = httpClient.send(request,
            HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString()); 

         System.out.println("Status code: " + response.statusCode());                            
         System.out.println("Headers: " + response.headers().allValues("content-type"));
         System.out.println("Body: " + response.body());
      } catch (IOException | InterruptedException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}

Output

It will print the following output.

Status code: 200
Headers: [text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1]
Body: <!doctype html>
...
</html>

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