Client Libraries

Podio Java Client

Note: Citrix does not maintain these libraries. We encourage customers to fork the library code and make any required fixes to continue using these libraries.

The Java client provides coverage of a large part of the API.

Getting the client

The client is built using Maven and is available in the official Maven repository. To use the client in a Maven project simply add a dependency on com.podio.api. If you use Eclipse, you can follow these steps:

  1. Create a new Maven project (make sure you have Maven integration installed)
  2. Double-click pom.xml and go to the Dependencies tab
  3. Click the Add button in the Dependencies list to the left
  4. Enter "podio" in the search field and select the newest version of com.podio.api
  5. Click OK and rebuild the project

The client can also be used by cloning the GitHub repository at https://github.com/podio/podio-java using the command git clone git@github.com:podio/podio-java.git.

Constructing API client instance and authentication

The main entry point for the API client is the com.podio.APIFactory class. This class supplies methods for getting API interfaces for each of the API areas. To construct a new API factory a com.podio.ResourceFactory instance must be supplied. The resource factory takes two parameters for construction, the client credentials and the authentication credentials. The client credentials are the key and secret from the API client registration. The authentication credentials can be any of the different authentication methods described in the authentication article.

java 

ResourceFactory resourceFactory = new ResourceFactory(
        new OAuthClientCredentials(clientId, clientSecret),
        new OAuthUsernameCredentials(username, password));
APIFactory apiFactory = new APIFactory(resourceFactory);

The API factory can then be used to get an interface for each of the areas of the API. The following will get the user area and then use the area to get the profile for the authenticated user and print out the name.

java 

UserAPI userAPI = apiFactory.getAPI(UserAPI.class);
Profile profile = userAPI.getProfile();
System.out.println(profile.getName());

Samples

There are many samples available on how the Java client can be used. They are all available on GitHub: