A software development kit (SDK) is a set of software development tools that allows to create applications for a specific platform. If an API consumer wants to create an application, they can generate a client side SDK for a supported language/framework and use it to write a software application to consume the subscribed APIs. This tutorial shows you how to write a client application using an SDK.
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Follow the steps in Invoke your first API, to deploy the sample API, subscribe and generate keys.
Info title Access Token Once the keys are generated, copy the access token. You can use this token to invoke APIs that you subscribe to using the same application.
- Go to the API Store. Select your API and download the SDK for Java. For more details, see Generating client SDKs in the API Store.
In this example, you would have downloaded the
PizzaShackAPI_1.0.0_java.zip
file. This file name includes the API name, version, and language of the SDK. Unzip thePizzaShackAPI_1.0.0_java.zip
file.Expand title Expand to see the folder structure of the unzipped file... Code Block PizzaShackAPI_1.0.0_java ├── build.gradle ├── build.sbt ├── docs │ ├── DefaultApi.md │ ├── ErrorListItem.md │ ├── Error.md │ ├── MenuItem.md │ └── Order.md ├── git_push.sh ├── gradle │ └── wrapper │ ├── gradle-wrapper.jar │ └── gradle-wrapper.properties ├── gradle.properties ├── gradlew ├── gradlew.bat ├── LICENSE ├── pom.xml ├── README.md ├── settings.gradle └── src ├── main │ ├── AndroidManifest.xml │ └── java │ └── org │ └── wso2 │ └── client │ ├── api │ │ ├── ApiCallback.java │ │ ├── ApiClient.java │ │ ├── ApiException.java │ │ ├── ApiResponse.java │ │ ├── auth │ │ │ ├── ApiKeyAuth.java │ │ │ ├── Authentication.java │ │ │ ├── HttpBasicAuth.java │ │ │ ├── OAuthFlow.java │ │ │ └── OAuth.java │ │ ├── Configuration.java │ │ ├── JSON.java │ │ ├── Pair.java │ │ ├── PizzaShackAPI │ │ │ └── DefaultApi.java │ │ ├── ProgressRequestBody.java │ │ ├── ProgressResponseBody.java │ │ └── StringUtil.java │ └── model │ └── PizzaShackAPI │ ├── Error.java │ ├── ErrorListItem.java │ ├── MenuItem.java │ └── Order.java └── test └── java └── org └── wso2 └── client └── api └── PizzaShackAPI └── DefaultApiTest.java
Build the SDK using maven.
When it’s done, you can include this SDK as a dependency in your software project. Details of this maven dependency are included in the README.md file.Code Block title Maven dependency collapse true <dependency> <groupId>org.wso2</groupId> <artifactId>org.wso2.client.PizzaShackAPI</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency>
Info title Build using maven You can build the SDK using the
mvn clean install
command inside the root directory. For more information see Maven Start Guide.After creating a maven project, import the following with respect to the SDK. These classes will be accessible from the code once the SDK is built using maven and will be included as maven dependencies in the project.
Code Block import org.wso2.client.api.ApiClient; import org.wso2.client.api.PizzaShackAPI.DefaultApi; import org.wso2.client.model.PizzaShackAPI.Menu;
Create an instance of the
DefaultApi
object in the java code. This instance is needed to get the API client which handles the operations related to consuming the API, using the resources of the API.Code Block DefaultApi defaultApi = new DefaultApi();
The API client of the
DefaultApi
object instance is used to set HTTP request headers with the required data. Note that these HTTP request headers might differ from one API to another, depending on the implementation of the API. A sample is show below.Code Block ApiClient apiClient = defaultApi.getApiClient(); apiClient.addDefaultHeader("Accept", "application/json");
Include the access token as a header in the API client object, to invoke the API.
Code Block String accessToken = "bc392b16-6ce2-3208-9023-8938fbc376ea"; apiClient.addDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken);
Warning You need an access token to invoke the API. It is important to have a valid subscription before using the SDK, to obtain an access token. Note that the obtained access token has an expiration time.
Set the base path to the API client.
Code Block apiClient.setBasePath("http://localhost:8280/pizzashack/1.0.0");
The base path for the client application is the production (or sandbox) URL of the API, found in the Overview tab of the API in the API Store.Once the
ApiClient
object has all the required data, set theApiClient
for the instance of theDefaultApi
object.Code Block defaultApi.setApiClient(apiClient);
Finally, we can call the available function in the SDK to get the response from the API.
Code Block List<MenuItem> menuItems = (List<MenuItem>) defaultApi.menuGet();
Info MenuItem
is a model class generated with SDK
Complete java code can be found below
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