I’m creating a Java application that uses Hunch’s API, but the problem is I have no clue as to how I can use a web API in Java. Any ideas?
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I’m creating a Java application that uses Hunch’s API, but the problem is I have no clue as to how I can use a web API in Java. Any ideas?
That depends on what the API provides, generally you’d need a web server (like Tomcat) to run a web framework.
If it’s just an api to communicate with a service via HTTP (maybe webservices) then have a look at the corresponding libraries (JAX-WS etc.).
Edit: I looked up Hunch API, and assume it is this: http://hunch.com/developers/v1/
It seems like it would return JSON encoded data, so you might use the
URLclass to read data from an URL. That data would be a JSON string which then needs to be decoded using one of the many JSON libraries out there (e.g. JSON-simple).