In this tutorial you will consume a RESTful service (that we deploy on WildFly application server) with a simple Ajax Client.
Let’s start from the REST Endpoint:
import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.ws.rs.*;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import java.util.List;
@Path("persons")
@ApplicationScoped
@Produces("application/json")
@Consumes("application/json")
public class DemoEndpoint {
@Inject DemoRepository demoRepository;
@GET
public List<Person> getAll() {
return demoRepository.findAll();
}
@POST
public Response create(Person p) {
demoRepository.createPerson(p);
return Response.status(201).build();
}
@PUT
public Response update(Person p) {
demoRepository.updatePerson(p);
return Response.status(204).build();
}
@DELETE
public Response delete(@QueryParam("id") Integer id) {
demoRepository.deletePerson(id);
return Response.status(204).build();
}
}
As you can see, this REST Service contains CRUD methods to perform the basic operations on the Person class.
The Repository class uses a plain memory structure to store your objects:
package com.packt.quarkus.chapter4;
import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
@ApplicationScoped
public class DemoRepository {
List<Person> list = new ArrayList();
int counter;
public int getNextCustomerId() {
return counter++;
}
public List<Person> findAll() {
return list;
}
public Person findPersonById(Integer id) {
for (Person c: list) {
if (c.getId().equals(id)) {
return c;
}
}
throw new RuntimeException("Person not found!");
}
public void updatePerson(Person person) {
Person personToUpdate = findPersonById(person.getId());
personToUpdate.setName(person.getName());
personToUpdate.setSurname(person.getSurname());
}
public void createPerson(Person person) {
person.setId(getNextCustomerId());
findAll().add(person);
}
public void deletePerson(Integer id) {
Person c = findPersonById(id);
findAll().remove(c);
}
}
Then, here is the POJO Class named Person:
public class Person {
private Integer id;
private String name;
private String surname;
@Override
public String toString() {
return "Person{" +
"id='" + id + '\'' +
", name='" + name + '\'' +
", surname='" + surname + '\'' +
'}';
}
public Integer getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(Integer id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getSurname() {
return surname;
}
public void setSurname(String surname) {
this.surname = surname;
}
}
Finally, include a REST Activator which activates REST Services under the URI “/rest”:
import javax.ws.rs.ApplicationPath;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;
@ApplicationPath("/rest")
public class JaxRsActivator extends Application {
/* class body intentionally left blank */
}
Done with the server side. Now let’s add an index.hml page to display the List of Person in an HTML Table:
<html>
<head>
<!-- little bit of css to beutify the table -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" media="screen" />
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$.getJSON("http://localhost:8080/rest/app/persons",
function (json) {
var tr;
for (var i = 0; i < json.length; i++) {
tr = $('<tr/>');
tr.append("<td>" + json[i].id + "</td>");
tr.append("<td>" + json[i].name + "</td>");
tr.append("<td>" + json[i].surname + "</td>");
$('table').append(tr);
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div align="left" style="margin-top: 10%;">
<fieldset style="border: none;">
<legend><strong>Users List</strong></legend>
<!-- table to show data -->
<table class="greyGridTable">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Surname</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
</fieldset>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Some CSS style has been included in the file stylesheet.css:
table.greyGridTable {
border: 2px solid #FFFFFF;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
table.greyGridTable td, table.greyGridTable th {
border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
padding: 3px 4px;
}
table.greyGridTable tbody td {
font-size: 13px;
}
table.greyGridTable td:nth-child(even) {
background: #EBEBEB;
}
table.greyGridTable thead {
background: #FFFFFF;
border-bottom: 4px solid #333333;
}
table.greyGridTable thead th {
font-size: 15px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #333333;
text-align: center;
border-left: 2px solid #333333;
}
table.greyGridTable thead th:first-child {
border-left: none;
}
table.greyGridTable tfoot td {
font-size: 14px;
}
That’s all. Make sure the following dependencies are included in your pom.xml file:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.spec.javax.ws.rs</groupId>
<artifactId>jboss-jaxrs-api_2.1_spec</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.enterprise</groupId>
<artifactId>cdi-api</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
Deploy the application with
$ mvn package wildfly:deploy
Now we can try adding some data with cURL:
$ curl -d '{"name":"john", "surname":"black"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8080/persons
$ curl -d '{"name":"victor", "surname":"frankenstein"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8080/persons
Let’s surf to localhost:8080 to check that Data is listed in our table:
Great. We could see how easily JSON data can be parsed with some help from jQuery and Ajax!
