mechanize for java

mechanize is a stateful HTTP web services client library (RESTful) with support for HTML, JSON, and XML services. Because mechanize is stateful and allow inspection of web resources, it naturally support GET-then-POST semantics.

• Project Home Page: http://gistlabs.com/software/mechanize-for-java/
• GitHub: https://github.com/GistLabs/mechanize
• Jenkins CI: https://gistlabs.ci.cloudbees.com/job/mechanize/
• Forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/mechanize4j
• License: MPL 2.0

Here is a testcase showing mechanize at work with HTML:

	@Test public void testGooglePageSearchForm() {
		MechanizeAgent agent = new MechanizeAgent();
		Document page = agent.get("http://www.google.com");
		Form form = page.form("f");
		form.get("q").set("mechanize java");
		Resource response = form.submit();
		assertTrue(response.getTitle().startsWith("mechanize java"));
	}

Here is a testcase showing mechanize using a Google JSON web service:

	@Test
	public void testGoogleApi() throws JSONException {
		MechanizeAgent agent = new MechanizeAgent();
		JsonDocument json = agent.doRequest(googleUrl).add("shortUrl", shortUrl).add("projection", "FULL").get();

		assertEquals(longUrl, json.getRoot().find("longUrl").getValue());

		String value = json.getRoot().find("analytics month countries#US count").getValue();
		assertTrue(value, Integer.valueOf(value)>=1);
	}

What to expect from future development: #61 XML Support

Release log:

• 0.11.0 on Nov 12th, 2012. Support for Request Headers, #18 Cache and Conditional loading, and chained filters. See https://github.com/GistLabs/mechanize/issues?milestone=8&state=closed
• 0.10.0 on Oct 22nd, 2012. Support for Android, JSON, and CSS Selectors (even for JSON). See https://github.com/GistLabs/mechanize/issues?milestone=7&page=1&state=closed
• 0.9.1 on Oct 3rd, 2012. See https://github.com/GistLabs/mechanize/issues?milestone=6&state=closed for list of resolved issues.
• 0.9.0 on Sept 28th, 2012. See https://github.com/GistLabs/mechanize/issues?milestone=2&page=1&state=closed for list of resolved issues.
• 0.8.0 on Sept 20th, 2012.

Download the code from https://github.com/GistLabs/mechanize/downloads, or use a Maven repository client:

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.gistlabs</groupId>
    <artifactId>mechanize</artifactId>
    <version>0.11.0</version>
  </dependency>

See the Mechanize Wiki for more details!