RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Jersey client API for reading chunked input

To read the chunked input on the client, Jersey offers the org.glassfish.jersey.client.ChunkedInput<T> class. Here is a client example that reads the employee list in chunks, as returned by the server:

//Other imports omitted for brevity import org.glassfish.jersey.media.sse.EventInput; import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientBuilder; String BASE_URI = "http://localhost:8080/hr-app/api"; Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient(); Response response = client.target().path("employees") .path("chunk").request().get(); ChunkedInput<List<Employee>> chunks = response .readEntity(new GenericType<ChunkedInput<List<Employee>>>(){}); List<Employee> chunk; while ((chunk = chunks.read()) != null) { //Code to process ...