del.icio.us Java API?
Using HttpClient I knocked up a simple Java API for del.icio.us. It worked, but I quickly hit limitations of what the del.icio.us API itself would let me do – for example there is no way to get all bookmarks for a category. I sent off a feature request, so we’ll see what happens – but for what I wanted to do the current API isn’t good enough.
HttpClient itself did exactly what I wanted, which I guess is all you can ask of an OS project. The documentation was a little lacking, and the dependencies on commons-codec and commons-logging was annoying, however it worked well and gave sensible errors when required.
Along the way I looked at using XStream. I was planning to use it to process the results from the calls to del.icio.us, but the nature of the XML meant that this isn’t possible without transforming the results first. I would have no hesitation in recommending XStream for XML serialization, assuming you aren’t already constrained in the nature of your XML schema.
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