Sonatype Nexus OSS REST API

Introduction

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C Client Library

Created Jul 5, 2011 12:08:10 AM.

Introduction

The C module generates the source code for the ANSI-C-compatible data structures and (de)serialization functions that can be used in conjunction with libxml2 to (de)serialize the REST resources as they are represented as XML data.

The generated C source code depends on the XML Reader API and the XML Writer API as well as the <time.h>, <string.h>, and <stdlib.h> C standard libraries.

REST XML Example

#include <nexus-rest-api.c> //... xmlTextWriterPtr writer = ...; //set up the writer to the url. nexus_rest_api_ns0_logConfigResourceResponse *request_element = ...; xmlTextReaderPtr reader = ...; //set up the reader to the url. nexus_rest_api_ns0_logConfigResourceResponse *response_element = ...; //set up the nexus_rest_api_ns0_logConfigResourceResponse... xml_write_nexus_rest_api_ns0_logConfigResourceResponse(writer, request_element); response_element = xml_read_nexus_rest_api_ns0_logConfigResourceResponse(reader); //handle the response as needed... //free the nexus_rest_api_ns0_logConfigResourceResponse free_nexus_rest_api_ns0_logConfigResourceResponse(request_element); //free the nexus_rest_api_ns0_logConfigResourceResponse free_nexus_rest_api_ns0_logConfigResourceResponse(response_element);

file size
nexus-rest-api.c 1.64M

.NET Client Library

Created Jul 5, 2011 12:08:19 AM for .NET 2.0.

Introduction

The .NET client-side library defines the classes that can be (de)serialized to/from XML. This is useful for accessing the REST endpoints that are published by this application.

REST Example

//read a resource from a REST url Uri uri = new Uri(...); XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer( typeof( LogConfigResourceResponse ) ); //Create the request object WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(uri); WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse(); Stream stream = resp.GetResponseStream(); TextReader r = new StreamReader( stream ); LogConfigResourceResponse order = (LogConfigResourceResponse) s.Deserialize( r ); //handle the result as needed...

This bundle contains C# source code.

file size
nexus-rest-api-dotnet.zip 16.66K

JAX-WS Client Library (Java 5+)

Created Jul 5, 2011 12:08:19 AM for Java (Version 5+).

Introduction

The JAX-WS client-side library is used to provide the set of Java objects that can be serialized to/from XML using JAXB. This is useful for accessing the REST endpoints that are published by this application.

REST Example (Raw JAXB)

java.net.URL url = new java.net.URL(baseURL + "/log/config"); JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance( LogConfigResourceResponse.class, LogConfigResourceResponse.class ); java.net.URLConnection connection = url.openConnection(); connection.setDoOutput(true); connection.connect(); Unmarshaller unmarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller(); Marshaller marshaller = context.createMarshaller(); marshaller.marshal(logConfigResourceResponse, connection.getOutputStream()); LogConfigResourceResponse result = (LogConfigResourceResponse) unmarshaller.unmarshal( connection.getInputStream() ); //handle the result as needed...

REST Example (Jersey client)

com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client client = com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client.create(); LogConfigResourceResponse result = client.resource(baseUrl + "/log/config") .entity(logConfigResourceResponse) .put(LogConfigResourceResponse.class); //handle the result as needed...

Files

file size description
nexus-rest-api-client.jar 96.63K The binaries for the JAX-WS client library.
nexus-rest-api-client-sources.jar 69.53K The sources for the JAX-WS client library.

Objective C Client Library

Created Jul 5, 2011 12:08:12 AM.

Introduction

The Objective C module generates the source code for the Objective C classes and (de)serialization functions that can be used in conjunction with libxml2 to (de)serialize the REST resources as they are represented as XML data.

The generated Objective C source code depends on the XML Reader API and the XML Writer API as well as the base OpenStep foundation classes.

REST XML Example

#include <nexus-rest-api.h> //... NEXUS_REST_APINS0LogConfigResourceResponse *requestElement = [[NEXUS_REST_APINS0LogConfigResourceResponse alloc] init]; NSData *requestData; //data holding the XML for the request. NEXUS_REST_APINS0LogConfigResourceResponse *responseElement; NSData *responseData; //data holding the XML from the response. NSURL *baseURL = ...; //the base url including the host and subpath. NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"/log/config" relativeToURL: baseURL]; NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:url]; NSURLResponse *response = nil; NSError *error = NULL; [request setHTTPMethod: @"PUT"]; [request setValue:@"application/xml" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"]; //set up the NEXUS_REST_APINS0LogConfigResourceResponse... requestData = [requestElement writeToXML]; [request setHTTPBody: requestData]; //this example uses a synchronous request, //but you'll probably want to use an asynchronous call responseData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error]; NEXUS_REST_APINS0LogConfigResourceResponse *responseElement = [NEXUS_REST_APINS0LogConfigResourceResponse readFromXML: responseData]; [responseElement retain]; //handle the response as needed...

Files

file size description
nexus-rest-api.h 122.14K
nexus-rest-api.m 1.18M

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