sdkman/sdkman-java-sdk

An sdk for the Groovy enVironment Manager (GVM)

###GVM Java SDK

This library is for the purpose of interacting with the GVM REST API from within your Java project. It exposes various convenience methods for retrieving encapsulated data.

Using it is simple:

def gvmClient = new GvmClient("http://dev.gvmtool.net")

def candidates = gvmClient.getCandidates()
candidates.each { println it.name }

def versions = gvmClient.getVersionsFor("groovy")
versions.each { println it.name }

Lots more features coming soon!!!

Distribution

GVM-SDK is currently distributed through Bintray

sdkman-java-sdk's Issues

IDEA: groovy-wslite is slimmer than HTTPBuilder

Plus it requires less dependencies (I think)

Candidate needs a better toString()

In Building gvm-gui, we noted that Candidate needs a better toString beyond the default. This may apply to Version as well

Add a download method

In order for me to use the SDK client for the SGVM project, I also need net.gvmtool.client.GvmClient to provide a method that downloads a candidate distribution.

I was going to create a pull request for this, but I've noticed that the groovy-wslite client automatically loads the response data to memory; Grails distributions may reach ~100MB, so I'm not so sure it's a good idea.

Thoughts?

automate installation of Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength

sdkman should provide a way to ease the installation of Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength which can be downloaded from oracle, e.g. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce8-download-2133166.html

Additional candidate metadata

I know gvm-sdk simply consume data comign from gvm's server side however I thought this would be a good place to start this discussion. Say someone builds a griffon client for gvm-sdk (hint, hint 😉); in order to make the app more appealing one would think it may display a logo and some other additional data that the gvm REST API does not expose (yet). Specifically I'm thinking of (at least) the following items:

• name. We've got this already, that's the candidate name.
• logo. Qualified list of URLs with small, medium, large, huge as qualifiers for example.
• summary. One liner stating the candidate's purpose.
• description. A few paragraphs (up to 3 maybe) in render friendly format (markdown perhaps?) with further details on the candidate.
• url.

WDYT?