Unirest Headers Request Body

Question

I've got a quick question about making a Unirest Request with headers.

I am using the NOAA API to access weather information. They ask that you send a header with the following, but it is in CURL and I need help converting it to Java to make a Unirest Request:

curl -H "token:<token>" "url"
$.ajax({ url:<url>, data:{<data>}, headers:{ token:<token> } })

This is the URL of the documentation if it helps: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2#gettingStarted

And here is the endpoint I am trying to access: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/api/v2/datatypes/

This is probably something very simple, but I can't figure it out for the life of me!

Thanks for the help in advance!

Answer 1

Unirest is actually not that daunting to work with. All you need to do is set a token value as header and you're set. You can use this snippet:

HttpResponse<JsonNode> response = null;

try {
    response = Unirest.get("https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/api/v2/datatypes")
            .header("token", "YOUR_TOKEN_HERE")
            .asJson();
} catch (UnirestException e) {
    //Uh oh!
    e.printStackTrace();
}

System.out.println(response.getBody());

If you'd prefer to retrieve as a String instead you could replace HttpResponse<JsonNode> by HttpResponse<String> and asJson() by asString().

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