Overview

Description

Written by Google, the Google HTTP Client Library for Java is a flexible, efficient, and powerfulJava library for accessing any resource on the web via HTTP. The library has the followingfeatures:

• Pluggable HTTP transport abstraction that allows you to use any low-level library such asjava.net.HttpURLConnection, Apache HTTP Client, or URL Fetch on Google App Engine.
• Efficient JSON and XML data models for parsing and serialization of HTTP response and requestcontent. The JSON and XML libraries are also fully pluggable, and they include support forJackson and Android’s GSON libraries for JSON.

The library supports the following Java environments:

• Java 7 or higher
• Android 4.4 (Kit Kat) or higher
• Google App Engine

The following related projects are built on the Google HTTP Client Library for Java:

• Google OAuth Client Library for Java, for the OAuth 2.0 and OAuth 1.0aauthorization standards.
• Google APIs Client Library for Java, for access to Google APIs.

This is an open-source library, andcontributions are welcome.

Beta Features

Features marked with the@Beta annotation at the class or method level are subject to change. Theymight be modified in any way, or even removed, in any major release. You should not use betafeatures if your code is a library itself (that is, if your code is used on theCLASSPATH of usersoutside your own control).

Deprecated Features

Deprecated non-beta features will be removed eighteen months after the release in which they arefirst deprecated. You must fix your usages before this time. If you don’t, any type of breakagemight result, and you are not guaranteed a compilation error.