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Sending cookies with RestTemplate

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

Sometimes it is necessary to send cookies along with requests to a RESTful API. One such example is the JIRA 4.3 API, which requires sending the JSESSIONID to JIRA for session management and authentication purposes. REST purists point out that … Continue reading →

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Calling the GitHub API using Spring’s RestTemplate

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Willie Wheeler

GitHub has an RESTful JSON API that we can call from our apps. In this post I’ll show how I’m grabbing a GitHub repo’s watchers and pull them into my own app using Spring’s RestTemplate. Meet the GitHub API First, … Continue reading →

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