How To Use Groovy HTTPBuilder To Get Stories from AgileZen? - api

Question

I would like to pull stories from Agile Zen using their REST API.
I read:
http://help.agilezen.com/kb/api/overview
http://help.agilezen.com/kb/api/security
Also, I got this to work: http://groovy.codehaus.org/HTTP+Builder
How would one combine the above in order to get Groovy client code to access AgileZen stories?

Answer 1

Here is the code sample which makes one story with id of 1 show up for a specific project whose id is 16854:
import groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder
import static groovyx.net.http.Method.GET
import static groovyx.net.http.ContentType.JSON
public class StoryGetter {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new StoryGetter().getStories()
}
void getStories() {
// http://agilezen.com/project/16854/story/4
// /api/v1/project/16854/story/2
def http = new HTTPBuilder( 'http://agilezen.com' )
http.request( GET, JSON ) {
uri.path = '/api/v1/project/16854/story/1'
headers.'X-Zen-ApiKey' = 'PUT YOUR OWN API KEY HERE'
response.success = { resp, json ->
println "json size is " + json.size()
println json.toString()
}
}
}
}
I had to put in a fake API key in this post since I should not share my API key.
(By the way, this is not using SSL. A follow up question in regards to doing this for a SSL enabled project may come soon.)