Jersey Client API – authentication

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At first I got this working as documented in the Jersey User guide

Authenticator.setDefault (authinstance);

However I did not like this as it relied on setting a global authenticator. After some research I discovered that Jersey has a HTTPBasicAuthFilter which is even easier to use.

Client c = Client.create();
c.addFilter(new HTTPBasicAuthFilter(user, password));

See:
https://jersey.github.io/nonav/apidocs/1.10/jersey/com/sun/jersey/api/client/filter/HTTPBasicAuthFilter.html
https://jersey.github.io/nonav/apidocs/1.10/jersey/com/sun/jersey/api/client/filter/Filterable.html#addFilter(com.sun.jersey.api.client.filter.ClientFilter)

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