This is an example client in Jersey2 that interoperates with Vokter using REST calls. It implements three simple REST methods, a mandatory POST ("/rest/notification") that receives Vokter detected differences for watched pages, and two optional GETs that allow the user to interact with Vokter using the browser's address bar. Notifications are simply printed on the console when received.

• Getting Started
  • Installation
    • Running with Apache Tomcat
    • Running with Jetty
  • Usage
    • Subscribe
    • Cancel
• License

If you already have a running Vokter server, skip to step 5.

1. Download and install MongoDB

2. Run MongoDB with mongod

3. Download the latest release of Vokter core server

4. Run Vokter server with java -jar vokter-core.jar (more information on running and using the core service)

5. Download the latest war of this Java client

   Running with Apache Tomcat

   1. Download and install Apache Tomcat
   2. Place the downloaded war file in tomcat-folder/webapps
   3. Run Tomcat with tomcat-folder/bin/startup.sh

   Running with Jetty

   1. Download and install Jetty
   2. Place the downloaded war file in jetty-folder/webapps
   3. Run Jetty with java -jar jetty-folder/start.jar

Note that if you change the default host of the deployed web app container or of the deployed Vokter server, you will need to change the first few Strings in the ClientResource.java file and pack a new war.

Load the URL below on your browser or curl, replacing ENCODED_URL with an encoded URL and KEYWORDS with an encoded string including a keyword. You can use 'keywords' query parameter multiple times to add more keywords.

http://localhost:8080/rest/watch?url=ENCODED_URL&keywords=KEYWORDS

For example, the following URL will subscribe the client to receive notifications when changes to the words 'argus' and 'panoptes' are found in the URL bbc.com:

http://localhost:8080/rest/watch?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbbc.com&keywords=argus&keywords=panoptes

Load the URL below on your browser or curl, replacing ENCODED_URL with an encoded URL:

http://localhost:8080/rest/cancel?url=ENCODED_URL

For example, the following URL will cancel the watch job launched by this client for the URL bbc.com:

http://localhost:8080/rest/cancel?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbbc.com

Copyright 2015 Eduardo Duarte

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