Question

Before I started with Restlet I already wrote a Jersey client. It was very intutiv – it seems like Restlet isnt. There is not much documentation and I can’t solve the easiest problems.

Where I am:

    service = new ClientResource("http://localhost:8080/com-project-core/rest");
    service.setChallengeResponse(ChallengeScheme.HTTP_BASIC, "admin", "geheima");

What I get from documentation:

 String myString = service.get(String.class);

or wrapping up a Resource:

 ConnectedResourceIF connectedResource = service.wrap(ConnectedResourceIF.class);

Thats working. But what about:

A. When I want to change my service path? In Jersey it was intuitiv like

 service.path("foo").path("bar")

for

http://localhost:8080/com-project-core/rest/foo/bar

B. I want to set a acceptHeader. In jersey it was like

   service.accept(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)

C. I want to set query parameters. In jersey:

   service.queryParam("1","foo").queryParam("2","bar")

Sorry, hope someone can solve this beginner problems. I cant find somethign in the restlet documentation.

Answer 1

For A:

service.getChild("/foo/bar", ConnectedResourceIF.class);

For B (need a recent 2.1 RCx version):

service.accept(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN);

For C (need a recent 2.1 RCx version):

service.setQueryValue("1","foo");

service.setQueryValue("2","bar");

The best place to look for such things is the Javadocs, because those API changes are pretty recent:
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/snapshot/jee/api/org/restlet/resource/ClientResource.html

We are working on a new in-depth tutorial for next 2.2 version. First finishing "Restlet in Action" book 🙂