googleapis/google-http-java-client

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Google's flexible and efficient Java library for making HTTP requests to any resource on the web. It features a pluggable transport abstraction and pluggable JSON/XML data models for parsing and serializing request and response content.

Use cases

• make http requests from java
• call rest apis from an android app
• parse json http responses in java
• swap http transport implementations like apache http client or urlconnection
• build google api client libraries on a common http layer
• serialize request bodies as json or xml

When to choose

• you need a lightweight, pluggable HTTP client for Java 8+ or Android
• you are building on Google's API or OAuth client libraries for Java
• you want pluggable JSON/XML serialization with Jackson or GSON support
• you target Google App Engine and need URL Fetch transport support

When to avoid

• you prefer a modern idiomatic client with built-in reactive or async-first APIs
• you are not on the JVM (e.g., Python, Go, Node.js projects)
• you need advanced features like built-in retry policies, circuit breaking, or service discovery out of the box
• you want a non-Google-maintained community-driven library

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client serialization json web-development developer-tools apis jvm cross-platform google http pluggable-transport app-engine jackson gson xml android

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