ActiveResource  like RESTClient for java

Typical Usage:

All you need are the url, username, password, scheme and realm. You could choose to leave out properties like username, 
password, scheme and realm if not applicable

RestClient restClient = new RestClientBuilder().withUrl("http://localhost:8080/customers")
                                               .withUserName("username")
                                               .withPassword("password")
                                               .withScheme(AuthScheme.BASIC)
                                               .withRealm("realm")
                                               .withFormat(Formats.JSON)
                                               .donotUseFormatInExtension()
                                               .build();

Create
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Customer customer = new Customer();
customer.setName("Hari");
restClient.save(customer);

update: Thanks to Marlin Engel, the save now also sets the id on the resource. Keep watching this space for more updates.

Read
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customer = (Customer) restClient.getById(1, Customer.class);

Update
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customer.setName("rapa");
restClient.update(customer);

Delete
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restClient.delete(customer);

Authentication
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It supports authentication schemes supported by org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthPolicy?.

AuthPolicy.BASIC
AuthPolicy.DIGEST
AuthPolicy.NTLM

and more

These may be set while constructing the RestClient?.
New Features

The latest release supports both json and xml :). You may also decide if the format will be used in the construction of 
the url

Setting the useFormatAsExtension parameter to true while constructing the RestClient? will generate urls as shown below, 
internally

http://localhost:8080/customers.xml
http://localhost:8080/customers.json
http://localhost:8080/customers/1.xml
http://localhost:8080/customers/1.json

Setting the useFormatAsExtension parameter to false while constructing the RestClient? will leave out the extension

http://localhost:8080/customers/1
http://localhost:8080/customers

Take a look at the wiki pages for more information. We are making the api much more easy to use in the next release. 

Contributing

Use it and let us know your comments. As always your comments are most welcome.

If you want to be a contributor on this project send a mail to rapa-programmers at gmail dot com.

more info

Check out the code to get a sneak peak of the improvements. We welcome critical feedback.
Quality

We strive to write better code and time to time try to better ourselves with review and metrics.