Announcing http-requests 2.0

Published August 01, 2018Bud Byrd10 min read

Lately, I’ve been hard at work refactoring the http-requests library in an effort to simplify the codebase and limit its scope in order to make it more maintainable. I also wanted to broaden the audience that might be able to take advantage of the library and its approach. After a critical review of the state of the library, I’ve completed version 2.0 of the library.

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Quick Tip: How To Include Logback Configuration In Grails Plugins

Published July 24, 2018Bud Byrd10 min read

By default, Grails excludes the logback.groovy file (among others) when plugins are assembled into JAR files, and for good reason. A plugin should not include the logger configuration, since the plugin would unexpectedly influence the configuration of the applications that include it.

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Extend existing Java classes with Groovy extension modules

Published July 24, 2018Bud Byrd10 min read

I've been working on an update to the http-requests library, and wanted to remove the Groovy dependency to make it more portable. I like a lot of the conveniences Groovy affords the library, as well as some of the entity converters that use Groovy classes, so I wanted to find a way to still provide those features even after ripping Groovy-specific methods out of the main interfaces.

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Introducing The http-requests Library

Published May 12, 2016Bud Byrd10 min read

I’ve recently put a lot of work into a new library I’ve named http-requests. I had previously written a project called jersey-request…

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Simplifying Jersey Client with a builder-style syntax

Published February 08, 2013Bud Byrd10 min read

I recently looked into an issue my friend was having with an HTTP call and its failure to correctly convert JSON. The conversion problem is…

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