Easiest way to make http requests in java

Question

I'm looking for a maven artifact or some pre-existing framework that will turn making http requests into a 1 liner. For those familiar with Ruby, I'm thinking about something alomg the lines of Httparty which supports get, put, post... etc.

ex:

Response response = SomeLibrary.get("https://api.google.com/maps")
int code = response.code
String body = response.body

possible duplicate of [How to send HTTP request in java?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1359689/how-to-send-http-request-in-java) — NimChimpsky, Apr 24 '12 at 15:25
You can forget about one-liners, it seems :) All the suggestions below are trying to be very complete implementations. But I'd suggest starting with the JDK's `HttpUrlConnection` and writing your own small API around it. — Marko Topolnik, Apr 24 '12 at 15:55

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 24 '12 at 15:26

we use apache commons http

    <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
        <version>3.1</version>
    </dependency>

It is very easy and supports many functions altough it is not a one liner.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 24 '12 at 15:25

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Try this Url.openConnection() and HttpUrlConnection

answered Apr 24 '12 at 15:25

Christian Kuetbach

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