A Jersey client supporting https

Filed under: Java, — Tags: Jersey, https, rest — Thomas Sundberg — 2019-01-27

When testing a rest service behind https, you must be able to create a client that supports an encrypted connection.

The trick is to create a javax.ws.rs.client.Client and set the sslContext as well as the hostnameVerifier() properly.

Jersey client factory

The factory below creates a Jersey client.

package se.thinkcode;

import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
import javax.net.ssl.KeyManager;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.ws.rs.client.Client;
import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientBuilder;
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.SecureRandom;

class JerseyHttpClientFactory {

    static Client getJerseyHTTPSClient() throws KeyManagementException, NoSuchAlgorithmException {
        SSLContext sslContext = getSslContext();
        HostnameVerifier allHostsValid = new NoOpHostnameVerifier();

        return ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
                .sslContext(sslContext)
                .hostnameVerifier(allHostsValid)
                .build();
    }

    private static SSLContext getSslContext() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException,
                                                     KeyManagementException {
        SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLSv1");

        KeyManager[] keyManagers = null;
        TrustManager[] trustManager = {new NoOpTrustManager()};
        SecureRandom secureRandom = new SecureRandom();

        sslContext.init(keyManagers, trustManager, secureRandom);

        return sslContext;
    }
}

A TrustManager that thinks that the world is trustworthy

The first you need is a TrustManager that trusts everything. My implementation looks like this:

package se.thinkcode;

import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

public class NoOpTrustManager implements X509TrustManager {
    @Override
    public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] x509Certificates, String s) {
    }

    @Override
    public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] x509Certificates, String s) {
    }

    @Override
    public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
        return new X509Certificate[0];
    }
}

It doesn't do anything and will therefore not stop anything. It is rubbish for anything but testing. If you are looking for a secure solution, look somewhere else.

A HostnameVerifier that thinks the best of all hosts

The next thing you need is a HostnameVerifier that trust the world. An implantation may look like this:

package se.thinkcode;

import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;

public class NoOpHostnameVerifier implements HostnameVerifier {
    @Override
    public boolean verify(String s, SSLSession sslSession) {
        return true;
    }
}

As you can see, it trusts anything as it always return true in verify(().

These three pieces will allow you to create a http client that supports https for testing.

A test class

This client should be used for testing. I used it in a test that looks like this:

package se.thinkcode;

import org.junit.Test;

import javax.ws.rs.client.Client;
import javax.ws.rs.client.Entity;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static se.thinkcode.JerseyHttpClientFactory.getJerseyHTTPSClient;

public class CurrencyTradeTest {

    @Test
    public void currency_trade_jersey() throws Exception {
        String actual = post();

        assertThat(actual).doesNotContain("requested resource could not be found");
        assertThat(actual.length()).isEqualTo(24);
    }

    private String post() throws Exception {
        String url = "https://currencytrade-spray.herokuapp.com";

        String payload = TradeOrder.getOrder();
        Entity<String> tradeOrder = Entity.entity(payload, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);

        Client client = getJerseyHTTPSClient();

        try {
            return client
                    .target(url)
                    .path("v1")
                    .path("trade")
                    .request()
                    .post(tradeOrder)
                    .readEntity(String.class);
        } finally {
            client.close();
        }
    }
}

Dependencies

The last important component is the dependencies I used for this example. They are declared in the build script:

plugins {
    id 'java'
}

compileJava {
    sourceCompatibility = 1.8
    targetCompatibility = 1.8
}

dependencies {
    compile 'org.glassfish.jersey.core:jersey-client:2.28'
    compile 'org.glassfish.jersey.inject:jersey-hk2:2.28'
    compile 'org.json:json:20180813'

    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    testCompile 'org.assertj:assertj-core:3.11.1'
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

Conclusion

That it folks, a Jersey client that supports https.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Malin Ekholm and Mika Kytöläinen for feedback.

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