HTTP Builder

HTTPBuilder provides a convenient builder API for complex HTTP requests. It is built on top of Apache HttpClient. The project home page includes full documentation and downloads.

Note that the example below works for HTTPBuilder version 0.5.0-RC2. In prior versions, the uri property was called url. Also note that @Grab dependency management requires Groovy 1.6 or later. More information may be found here.

Example: HTTP GET, automatically parsed as a JSON response.

@Grab(group='org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder', module='http-builder', version='0.5.0-RC2' )
import groovyx.net.http.*
import static groovyx.net.http.ContentType.*
import static groovyx.net.http.Method.*

def http = new HTTPBuilder( 'http://ajax.googleapis.com' )

// perform a GET request, expecting JSON response data
http.request( GET, JSON ) {
  uri.path = '/ajax/services/search/web'
  uri.query = [ v:'1.0', q: 'Calvin and Hobbes' ]

  headers.'User-Agent' = 'Mozilla/5.0 Ubuntu/8.10 Firefox/3.0.4'

  // response handler for a success response code:
  response.success = { resp, json ->
    println resp.statusLine

    // parse the JSON response object:
    json.responseData.results.each {
      println "  ${it.titleNoFormatting} : ${it.visibleUrl}"
    }
  }

  // handler for any failure status code:
  response.failure = { resp ->
    println "Unexpected error: ${resp.statusLine.statusCode} : ${resp.statusLine.reasonPhrase}"
  }
}

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