JSON World Bank Data in NetBeans HTML Code Completion

Continuing from yesterday, another source of data for code completion could be data extracted from JSON via an online RESTful web service, such as this one:

http://api.worldbank.org/country?format=json

I'm not trying to make the argument that it's useful to integrate World Bank data into the code completion box in the NetBeans HTML Editor, but simply that it's possible to do so (and you might have, more realistically, customer data exposed via a RESTful web service that you'd like to have available while working with a specific HTML attribute) via the annotation I described yesterday:

@HTMLAttributeCompletionRegistration(
        id = "jee-architect-cookbook-netbeans-iso6391-CountriesAttributeCompletionProvider",
        attribute = "accesskey",
        iconBase = "jee/architect/cookbook/netbeans/iso6391/bubble.png",
        content = "http://api.worldbank.org/country?format=json",
        contentType="json")

That's all the code needed because the layer entries generated from the above create a code completion provider with this result:

Again, the "accesskey" attribute doesn't make sense in the context of the above data, but it's just an example of what's possible.

I had to cheat slightly because I haven't figured out a good way to pass in the path to the required data yet, so I've hardcoded it, as you can see below in the "loadContent" method of the completion provider to which the above annotation maps, as described yesterday:

private void loadContent(String content, String contentType) throws IOException {
    if (contentType.equals("csv")) {
        ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
        InputStream inputStream = classLoader.getResourceAsStream(content);
        if (inputStream != null) {
            BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
            String line = null;
            while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
                codes.add(line);
            }
        }
    } else if (contentType.equals("json")) {
        try {
            URL url = new URL(content);
            HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
            conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
            if (conn.getResponseCode() != 200) {
                StatusDisplayer.getDefault().setStatusText("Failed : HTTP error code : "
                        + conn.getResponseCode());
            }
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader((conn.getInputStream())));
            JSONArray array = (JSONArray) JSONValue.parse(br);
            JSONArray next = (JSONArray) array.get(1);
            for (int i = 0; i < next.size(); i++) {
                    //Map m = (Map) ((JSONObject) next.get(i)).get("region");
                    //String region = m.get("value").toString();                    //codes.add(region);
                String country = (String) ((JSONObject) next.get(i)).get("name");
                String capitalCity = (String) ((JSONObject) next.get(i)).get("capitalCity");
                codes.add(capitalCity + "/" + country);
            }
            conn.disconnect();
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            Exceptions.printStackTrace(e);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            Exceptions.printStackTrace(e);
        }
    } else if (contentType.equals("basic")) {
        codes.addAll(Arrays.asList(content.split(",")));
    }
}

All the casting above seems a bit ugly but I don't know a better way to do it and, again again, that's not the point here.

Some related info that I found helpful:

• http://code.google.com/p/json-simple/
• http://www.mkyong.com/webservices/jax-rs/restfull-java-client-with-java-net-url/
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8388656/java-json-jackson-nested-elements

And the code above is now part of the download referred to yesterday: