client

I’ve started to write a mobile app using Sencha Touch for the client, and the Play Framework and Scala on the server side (to create a RESTful API). At some point I may make all of this code open source, but for today I’m just going to share some pictures of the Sencha Touch client.

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I just ran into a situation for a Drupal/PHP client where I wanted to log some access information. There was some unusual access activity on the website, and I want to log IP addresses and URLs for a few days.

As part of that, I wanted to get the web client's IP address, and in PHP you get the client IP address like this:

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

That returns something like this:

192.168.100.10

If you just need to get a web client's IP address from a PHP script, that's all you need.

As quick post here today, if you need a Scala REST client function, the following source code should be able to work for you, or at least be a good starting point. I'm using it in several applications today, and the only thing I think it needs is the ability to set a connection timeout and socket timeout, and I share the code for that down below.

Here's my Scala REST 'get content' client function, using the Apache HttpClient library:

After writing a Java REST (RESTful) client using Apache HttpClient, I turned around and modified that code to be a Scala REST client, also using the Apache HttpClient library.

Just a quick note here today that if you want to create a Twitter client in Scala, the Java Twitter4J library looks like a good path to take.

I've shown an example below, where you can see that besides the eight lines of code it takes to create a Scala twitter object, the actual code you need to get information from the Twitter developer API is pretty short.