Need a little help integrating JAXRSClientFactory with OpenAM RESTful service

Question

I admit I'm a greenhorn with web services.

I am attempting to call an OpenAM restful web service from a legacy unprotected tomEE+ servlet. My problem is that I don't understand what I should be creating for the second argument of:

JAXRSClientFactory.create("http://openam.mylocalAMserver.lan:8080/openam/json/authenticate", WhatClassGoesHere.class);

The OpenAM documentation provides this:

3.3.1. Authentication & Logout

$ curl --request POST --header "X-OpenAM-Username: demo" --header "X-OpenAM-Password: changeit" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{}" https://openam.example.com:8443/openam/json/authenticate

{ "tokenId": "AQIC5w...NTcy*", "successUrl": "/openam/console" }

Should I create a class with instance variables "tokenId", "successURL" and passing that as the second parameter to JAXRSClientFactory? Do I need to worry about all of the parameters specified? Once I figure this out, I've got to figure out how to actually pass the user name and password and invoke the service...

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

This is really more of a JAXRS question, and is not specific to OpenAM. You need to write Java code to make requests and parse the JSON response. JAXRS is one way to do this- but there are others as well.

Look for a good JAXRS tutorial. The OpenAM part is very simple once you understand REST web services.