IBM Java SDK Core Version 9.22.0

This project contains core functionality required by Java code generated by the IBM Cloud OpenAPI SDK Generator (openapi-sdkgen).

Installation

The current version of the project: 9.22.0

You can use this project by defining it as a dependency within your Java SDK project (i.e. a project containing Java code generated by the IBM Cloud OpenAPI SDK Generator).

Maven

<dependency>
	<groupId>com.ibm.cloud</groupId>
	<artifactId>sdk-core</artifactId>
	<version>9.22.0</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

'com.ibm.cloud:sdk-core:9.22.0'

Prerequisites

• Java SE version 8 or newer is required

Javadoc

You can find the Javadoc for this project here: https://ibm.github.io/java-sdk-core/

Authentication

The java-sdk-core project supports the following types of authentication:

• Basic Authentication
• Bearer Token Authentication
• Identity and Access Management (IAM) Authentication (grant type: apikey)
• Identity and Access Management (IAM) Authentication (grant type: assume)
• Container Authentication
• VPC Instance Authentication
• Cloud Pak for Data Authentication
• Multi-Cloud Saas Platform (MCSP) Authentication
• No Authentication (for testing)

For more information about the various authentication types and how to use them with your services, click here.

Logging

This project uses the java.util.logging framework for logging errors, warnings, informational and debug messages. The output is controlled by configuring the desired logging level (SEVERE, WARNING, INFO, FINE, etc.) for various loggers.

Each class within the project creates its own logger which is named after the class (e.g. com.ibm.cloud.sdk.core.service.BaseService). The logger names form a hierarchy that mirrors the package/class hierarchy. A logging level can be configured for an individual logger or for a group of loggers by leveraging the package name hierarchy.

You can configure the logging framework programmatically by using the java.util.logging API to create and configure loggers, handlers and formatters. Please consult the logging framework documentation for more details on this.

You can also configure the framework by defining the desired configuration in a file, then supplying the name of the file to the logging framework when you run your application. Included with this project are two files which serve as examples of how to configure the logging framework:

• logging.properties: this file contains the default configuration which will display messages that are logged at level INFO and above (e.g. INFO, WARNING, SEVERE) on the console
• debug-logging.properties: this file contains a sample configuration that will set the logging level to FINE for all Java SDK core loggers and INFO for all other loggers

To cause the logging framework to use a particular configuration file when running your java application, specify the name of the configuration file with the java.util.logging.config.file system property, like this:

    java -jar myapp.jar -Djava.util.logging.config.file=debug-logging.properties mypackage.MyMainClass

For more details regarding the java.util.logging API and configuration, please consult the appropriate java.util.logging documentation.

HTTP message logging

One particular logging-related subject worth mentioning is the logging of HTTP request and response messages as they flow back and forth between the client and server. This can be very useful in diagnosing problems or simply verifying that the application is working as intended (we all know that sometimes "working as intended" is not necessarily aligned with "working as implemented" :) ).

The easiest way to enable HTTP message logging in the Java SDK core library is to simply configure logging level FINE (or FINER or FINEST) for the com.ibm.cloud.sdk.core.service.BaseService logger. This has the side-effect of causing an interceptor to be registered with the underlying okhttp3 HTTP transport layer which performs logging of HTTP request and response messages. Note that the debug-logging.properties file contains a configuration that will include HTTP message logging.

Issues

If you encounter an issue with this project, you are welcome to submit a bug report. Before opening a new issue, please search for similar issues. It's possible that someone has already reported it.

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License

This library is licensed under Apache 2.0. Full license text is available in LICENSE.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Code of conduct

See CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.