istSOS Java Core Library

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About

Designed as a simple to use REST API wrapper to expose communication with the istSOS WA REST interface.

Serves a starting point for developing Android apps for istSOS platform.

Features

• Configured as a Gradle-based project to handle dependencies
• Developed to handle HTTP requests asynchronously using [AsyncHTTPClient] (https://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client)
• Handles JSON (de)serialization using [Gson] (https://github.com/google/gson)
• Built for Java 8 and above
• Backwards compatibility to Java 7
• Usable as a library for Android development

Installation

There are two options for using this library:

1. Look inside the following folders path build -> libs and find the java-core.jar
2. git clone this repo, then create the jar using Gradle command gradle buildJar in a terminal

Documentation

• JavaCore UserGuide: Tutorial on how to get started.
• JavaCore Version History: see release history of library.

Support (Requests and issues)

Open an issue in the GitHub issue tracker for bugs and requesting new features.

Author

Florin-Daniel Cioloboc (@florincioloboc) implemented during Google Summer of Code 2016.

Mentors from istSOS: Mirko Cardoso, Milan Antonovic.

Release history

• Last updated: 22.08.2016
• Version: 0.1

Useful links

• istSOS website
• istSOS mailing list
• GSoC development log on OSGeo wiki