mattfinlayson / dropwizard-linkedin

Sample dropwizard app demonstrating oauth use.

Dropwizard & LinkedIn

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This is a simple example app using dropwizard and linkedin-j to pull basic user info. To get the example working you'll need to get a set of API keys from [LinkedIn] 1

The sample dropwizard-linkedin.yml file has 3 fields for the

• Consumer Key
• Consumer Secret
• Callback URL

Plug the values you get from linkedin into the key and secret, you should be able to use the default callback url.

Notation

<project root> - The root directory of the project as checked out through git

All commands will work on *nix without modification, use \ instead of / for Windows.

Getting started

From the console you can do the following

cd <project root>
mvn clean install
java -jar target/dropwizard-linkedin-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar server dropwizard-linkedin.yml

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Credits

dropwizard-linkedin uses:

• dropwizard - a basic java framework from coda hale
• linkedin-j - a java wrapper for linkedin apis
• gary rowe - how to use sessions in dropwizard came from this post about [openid and dropwizard] 2