RestEasy 3.0

We were using RESTEasy 2.0 in on of our earlier projects. RESTEasy is a JBoss project that provides various frameworks to help you build RESTful Web Services and RESTful Java applications. The 2.0 version was quite simple to use. I decided to use version 3.0 in one of recent projects and the migration was not that tough. A lot of chages have been done in the newer version. I am going to mention the ones which I found out.

RESTEasy Client 

In version 2.0

        String url = "http://resetservice.com/api/testService";

        ClientRequest request = new ClientRequest(url);
        request.body("application/json", json);
        response = request.post();
        int status = response.getStatus();
        if (status == 200) {
            String data = (String) response.getEntity(String.class);
            Boolean value = new Gson().fromJson(data, Boolean.class);
            return value;
        }
        return false;

The same thing  in 3.0 now changes to -

     ResteasyClient client = new ResteasyClientBuilder().build();
     String result = getResponseString("http://resetservice.com/api/testService");
     Boolean returnVal = clientUtil.getObjectFromJson(Boolean.class, result);
     return returnVal; 

Authentication

I also had to use some in-house authentication technic.  I used it in very basic way. I checked for a particular request header (authorizationString) for authenticating the request. If that header is not present the request gets aborted. I used a very basic Below is the code snippet for the same.

@Provider
@ServerInterceptor
public class AuthorizationRequestFilter implements ContainerRequestFilter {

    @Override
    public void filter(ContainerRequestContext requestContext)
            throws IOException {
        final SecurityContext securityContext =requestContext.getSecurityContext();
        String header = requestContext.getHeaderString("authorizationString");
        try {
            if (securityContext == null || header == null || header == "" ||
                (header != null && !header.equals(
                ConfigReader.getInstance().getAuthToken()))) {
            requestContext.abortWith(
                    Response.status(Response.Status.UNAUTHORIZED).entity("User
                        cannot access the resource.").build());
        }
        } catch (ConfigurationException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}