In one of our modules we make use of unirest client library for Java in order to access remote REST endpoints. As, right now, this involves quite some communication, we were looking into response caching which seems both an obvious idea and yet something that is defined pretty well in HTTP and, too, implemented pretty well in apache httpclient which lives at the core of unirest. And actually, even though undocumented in unirest, getting this done has proven to be mostly straightforward. Yet I decided to do a quick write-up, maybe it will help others get started faster.
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unirest: cross-platform REST client.
Stumbled across unirest last nite while ultimately feeling a bit unhappy with Java EE / JAX-RS frameworks. These folks in some way got my mind re-sorted a bit. I am still playing with this, yet there are a few things I already like about that one: It’s available. Same as some things I saw on … Read moreunirest: cross-platform REST client.