Author Pablo Perez Garcia

Open source library in scala to consume public Apple API for music, movies and apps.

You need to follow the next steps in order to start using the library.

• Add the library in your project.

  gradle clean build --> create the jar
  /build/libs/AppleSearch-1.0.jar --> copy the library
  mv AppleSearch-1.0.jar /projectFolder/lib --> move it in your lib folder project
  

• Use one of the library classes( Album, Movie, Application ) or extend one of those and insanciate it with the artist name and country.

  val album = new Album(artistName = "incubus", country = "es")
  List[Album] discography = album.find()
  

• Automatically you will received a collection with all albums, movies or applicaiton of that artist for that country.

• The structure of the classes looks like:

  class Album(artistName: String = "",
              trackName: String = "",
              country: String = "",
              var collectionName: String = "",
              var primaryGenreName: String = "",
              var trackPrice: String = "",
              var trackViewUrl: String = "",
              var releaseDate: String = "",
              var previewUrl: String = "",
              var artworkUrl100: String = ""
             )
    extends AppleBase(artistName, trackName, country) {}
  
  class Movie(artistName: String = "",
              trackName: String = "",
              country: String = "",
              previewUrl: String = "",
              trackViewUrl: String = "",
              trackRentalPrice: String = "",
              trackPrice: String = "",
              collectionHdPrice: String = "",
              primaryGenreName: String = "",
              artworkUrl100: String = ""
             ) extends AppleBase(artistName, trackName, country) {}
  
  class Application(artistName: String = "",
                    artistViewUrl: String = "",
                    trackViewUrl: String = "",
                    country: String = "",
                    price: String = "",
                    artworkUrl100: String = ""
                   ) extends AppleBase(artistName,null, country) {}
  

• In this library we deserialize from the Apple API what we consider are the most important data for consumers. But as we mention above, you can always extend the base classes and add extra attributes if you need it. Here you can see the json templates that Apple return from their API

  • [Templates] (src/test/resources)

You can see how the library works running the unit test:

• Unit test