Reference Java Implementation for Blitline.com Image Processing SaaS

REQUIREMENTS

Built with the following:

java version "1.7.0_11"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_11-b21)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.6-b04, mixed mode)

• The Apache Software Foundation: httpclient-4.2.5.jar
• The Apache Software Foundation: httpcore-4.2.4.jar
• The Apache Software Foundation: commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
• com.googlecode.json-simple: simple-json-1.1.1.jar

These jars are available in the lib directory. If you wish to integrate this client with other libraries, go ahead, we would love to hear from you and would be glad to add them to the Blitline library.

Installation and Use

git clone git@github.com:blitline-dev/blitline-java-client.git

blitline-client.jar is already in bin directory.

To Build By Hand

(This isn't necessary because the blitline-client.js already exists in the bin directory)

cd blitline-java-client

For Linux/Mac

javac -d bin -cp lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:lib/httpclient-4.2.5.jar:lib/httpcore-4.2.4.jar:lib/json-simple-1.1.1.jar com/blitline/client/*.java

...OR For PC

javac -d bin -cp lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar;lib/httpclient-4.2.5.jar;lib/httpcore-4.2.4.jar;lib/json-simple-1.1.1.jar com/blitline/client/*.java

Jar it up...

cd bin;jar cvf blitline-client.jar com/blitline/client/*.class;cd ..

Usage

There is only 2 calls in the Blitline client:

1. Submitting JSON to Blitline
2. Polling for results from Blitline

Submitting JSON to Blitline:

BlitlineClient.submitJsonToBlitline(json) take JSON as a string parameter.

It's best to do all your thinking about Blitline jobs in terms of JSON. Build the jobs as JSON in text using tools like Blitline's GIST runner (http://www.blitline.com/docs/gist_runner?gist_id=3765044). Once you have the JSON for your jobs figured out as a big string, then you can just build it dynamically in your code and submit it via the BlitlineClient.submitJsonToBlitline call. The beauty of the JSON is that we can add to it at any time, expanding functionality without changing existing functionality. As such, it doesn't make sense to try to coerce it into a object or model, because we would need to update the Blitline libraries every time we made an addition.

This call will return a BlitlineResult object. This BlitlineResult object has two methods, getJobID and getImages. The jobID is used to track your job through the Blitline system, and the getImages is the list of images you submitted to Blitline.

You can find a bunch of JSON examples on the Blitline.com examples page:

http://www.blitline.com/docs/examples

Polling for results from Blitline:

BlitlineClient.longPoll(blitlineResult) takes a BlitlineResult as a parameter and waits for Blitline to notify you that your job has completed. Once completed, longPoll returns a BlitlinePostback which represents the data that Blitline returns to you about your job. This includes metadata and information about the image.

Blitline recommends that you only use longPoll for development purposes. Blitline recommends that use the postback (http://www.blitline.com/docs/postback) functionality provided by Blitline to notify your servers when a job has completed.

Note: The BlitlinePostback is constructed with the same JSON that is returned to your server by Blitline, so you can use it server-side to recieve the Blitline postback when/if you implement postbacks on your server.

Please check out Blitline.com for further documentation about the Blitline service and if you have any questions please feel free to write us at support@blitline.com.

Example

There is a Sample class to demonstrate how to use the blitline-client. You can try it by simply running the following command:

For Linux/Mac

java -cp .:lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:lib/httpclient-4.2.5.jar:lib/httpcore-4.2.4.jar:lib/json-simple-1.1.1.jar:bin/blitline-client.jar Sample YOUR_APP_ID

Or for PC

java -cp .:lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:lib/httpclient-4.2.5.jar:lib/httpcore-4.2.4.jar:lib/json-simple-1.1.1.jar:bin/blitline-client.jar Sample YOUR_APP_ID

Note:You will need to replace YOUR_APP_ID with your Application ID from Blitline.com

Licensing?

The project is licensed under the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL license.