HTTP Clients

HTTP Client Implementations for Azure V2 Libraries

Azure SDK for Java V2 libraries support multiple HTTP client implementations. Depending on your Java version and requirements, you can choose one of the following:

1. JDK HttpClient

• Description: Built-in Java HTTP client, available from Java 12 onwards.

2. Netty

• Description: Netty based HTTP client implementation, available from Java 8 onwards.
• Dependency:

  <dependency>
    <groupId>io.clientcore</groupId>
    <artifactId>http-netty4</artifactId>
    <version>LATEST</version>
  </dependency>

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3. OkHttp

• Description: OkHttp3 based HTTP client implementation, available from Java 8 onwards.
• Dependency:

  <dependency>
    <groupId>io.clientcore</groupId>
    <artifactId>http-okhttp3</artifactId>
    <version>LATEST</version>
  </dependency>

• See instructions to add this library as dependency.

4. Custom implementation

Refer to this wiki to implement a custom HTTP client