Introduction

Go API Client is a client library that allows users to interact with a Thoughtworks Studios Go server’s web API.

The Go server exposes data and actions over HTTP RESTful APIs. This library lets users use Java as the client library.

Why?

This library:

• Shields the user from knowing the format of the XML documents returned as resources
• Expose POJOs which give access to different domain concepts like pipeline, stage, job, material etc
• Adds client side caching so that the Go server is not spammed more than required
• Expose nice helper methods which help build custom reports quite easily
• Provide version specific APIs

How do I use this?

TalkToGo is the interface that exposes everything that can be done with the Go server. There is a release specific implementation of this interface. For example, if you always want the latest server API, you can use the TalkToGoLatest implementation.

A sample usage of this client is as follows:

HttpClientWrapper wrapper = new HttpClientWrapper("server.host", 8153, "username", "password");
TalkToGoLatest talkToGo = new TalkToGoLatest("pipeline", wrapper, false);
Stage stage = talkToGo.latestStage("stage");
System.out.println("The latest stage result is: " + stage.getResult());
System.out.println(String.format("Latest stage info: %s %s %s", stage.getCounter(), stage.getPipelineLabel(), stage.getPipelineCounter()));

You need to create a HttpClientWrapper which is what is used to interact with the Go server. TalkToGoLatest is created for the pipeline with name “pipeline”. Using this instance, you can start interacting with the Go server to get the latest stage, latest pipeline instance etc.

API Documentation

Since this is an API client, you can checkout the Javadocs on all the Java classes.