I guess I've made progress....

Client/Client.iml

@@ -5,14 +5,24 @@
     <output-test url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target/test-classes" />
     <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
       <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/main/java" isTestSource="false" />
-      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/main/resources" type="java-resource" />
-      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/test/java" isTestSource="true" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target" />
     </content>
     <orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
     <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
-    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.8.6" level="project" />
-    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.8.0" level="project" />
-    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.8.6" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.9.4" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.9.0" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.9.4" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.mashape.unirest:unirest-java:1.4.9" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.3.6" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.3.3" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: commons-logging:commons-logging:1.1.3" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: commons-codec:commons-codec:1.6" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpasyncclient:4.0.2" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore-nio:4.3.2" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpmime:4.3.6" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.json:json:20140107" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: junit:junit:4.11" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:1.3" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: commons-io:commons-io:2.4" level="project" />
   </component>
 </module>

Client/pom.xml

@@ -12,4 +12,5 @@
     <artifactId>Client</artifactId>
 
 
+
 </project>

Client/src/main/java/Console.java

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+public class Console {
+
+
+
+}

Client/src/main/java/Id.java

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+public class Id {
+
+    public String userId;
+    public String name;
+    public String github;
+
+    public Id(String name, String github) {
+        this.name = name;
+        this.github = github;
+    }
+
+    public String getUserId() {
+        return userId;
+    }
+
+    public void setUserId(String userId) {
+        this.userId = userId;
+    }
+
+    public String getName() {
+        return name;
+    }
+
+    public void setName(String name) {
+        this.name = name;
+    }
+
+    public String getGithub() {
+        return github;
+    }
+
+    public void setGithub(String github) {
+        this.github = github;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+    return String.format("userid: " + userId + "\n" +
+            "name: " + name + "\n" +
+            "github: " +  github);
+    }
+
+}

Client/src/main/java/Message.java

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+public class Message {
+
+    String sequence;
+    String timeStamp;
+    String fromId;
+    String toId;
+    String message;
+
+
+    public Message(Id myId, Id theirId, String message) {
+        this.fromId = myId.getGithub();
+        this.toId = theirId.getGithub();
+        this.message = message;
+
+    }
+
+    public String getSequence() {
+        return sequence;
+    }
+
+    public void setSequence(String sequence) {
+        this.sequence = sequence;
+    }
+
+    public String getTimeStamp() {
+        return timeStamp;
+    }
+
+    public void setTimeStamp(String timeStamp) {
+        this.timeStamp = timeStamp;
+    }
+
+    public String getFromId() {
+        return fromId;
+    }
+
+    public void setFromId(String fromId) {
+        this.fromId = fromId;
+    }
+
+    public String getToId() {
+        return toId;
+    }
+
+    public void setToId(String toId) {
+        this.toId = toId;
+    }
+
+    public String getMessage() {
+        return message;
+    }
+
+    public void setMessage(String message) {
+        this.message = message;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+         return "Message{" +
+                "sequence='" + sequence + '\'' +
+                ", fromid='" + fromId + '\'' +
+                ", toid='" + toId + '\'' +
+                ", message='" + message + '\'' +
+                '}';
+      }
+}

Client/src/main/java/Messages.java

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+
+public class Messages {
+
+    ArrayList<Message> messages;
+}

Client/src/main/java/SimpleShell.java

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
+import com.mashape.unirest.http.JsonNode;
+import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;
+import com.mashape.unirest.http.exceptions.UnirestException;
+
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -106,6 +111,8 @@ public class SimpleShell {
             //catch ioexception, output appropriate message, resume waiting for input
             catch (IOException e) {
                 System.out.println("Input Error, Please try again!");
+            } catch (UnirestException e) {
+                e.printStackTrace();
             }
             // So what, do you suppose, is the meaning of this comment?
             /** The steps are:
@@ -121,4 +128,5 @@ public class SimpleShell {
 
     }
 
+
 }

Client/src/main/java/YouAreEll.java

@@ -1,23 +1,73 @@
+import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
+import com.mashape.unirest.http.JsonNode;
+import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;
+import com.mashape.unirest.http.exceptions.UnirestException;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.ProtocolException;
+import java.net.URL;
+
 public class YouAreEll {
 
+    private String underARock = "http://zipcode.rocks:8085";
+
     YouAreEll() {
+
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         YouAreEll urlhandler = new YouAreEll();
-        System.out.println(urlhandler.MakeURLCall("/ids", "GET", ""));
-        System.out.println(urlhandler.MakeURLCall("/messages", "GET", ""));
+//        System.out.println(urlhandler.MakeURLCall("/ids", "GET", ""));
+//        System.out.println(urlhandler.MakeURLCall("/messages", "GET", ""));
     }
 
-    public String get_ids() {
-        return MakeURLCall("/ids", "GET", "");
+    public String get_ids(){
+
+        try {
+            HttpResponse<JsonNode> jsonResponse = Unirest.get(underARock + "/ids")
+                    .header("accept", "application/json")
+                    .asJson();
+
+            String ids = jsonResponse.getBody().toString();
+            System.out.println(ids);
+            return ids;
+        } catch (UnirestException e) {
+            System.out.println("Error");
+        }
+
+        return null;
     }
 
-    public String get_messages() {
+    public String get_messages() throws UnirestException {
+        try {
         return MakeURLCall("/messages", "GET", "");
+        } catch (UnirestException e) {
+            System.out.println("Error");
+        }
+        return null;
     }
 
-    public String MakeURLCall(String mainurl, String method, String jpayload) {
-        return "nada";
+    public String MakeURLCall(String mainurl, String method, String jpayload) throws UnirestException {
+
+        String url = underARock + mainurl;
+        method = method.toUpperCase();
+        HttpResponse<com.mashape.unirest.http.JsonNode> jsonResponse;
+
+        if(method.equals("GET")) {
+            jsonResponse = Unirest.get("http://zipcode.rocks:8085/GET").routeParam("method", url).asJson();
+        }
+
+        if(method.equals("POST")) {
+
+        }
+
+        if(method.equals("PUT")) {
+
+        }
+
+            return "nada";
+
     }
+
 }

README.md

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ specific command.
 
 * The Under-A-Rock Server can be reached at `http://zipcode.rocks:8085` Everyone uses the same server. 		
 	* There are two segments to the API and two kinds of commands in the shell, the ID segment and the Messages segment.
-
+Car car = objectMapper.readValue(json, Car.class);  
 
 * You can explore several ways of doing the HTTP URL calls to the server, using the one of these:
 	* [Apache HTTP Client Library](http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/index.html)

YouAreEll.iml

@@ -8,8 +8,20 @@
     </content>
     <orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
     <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
-    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.8.6" level="project" />
-    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.8.0" level="project" />
-    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.8.6" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.9.4" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.9.0" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.9.4" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: com.mashape.unirest:unirest-java:1.4.9" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.3.6" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.3.3" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: commons-logging:commons-logging:1.1.3" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: commons-codec:commons-codec:1.6" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpasyncclient:4.0.2" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore-nio:4.3.2" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpmime:4.3.6" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.json:json:20140107" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: junit:junit:4.11" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:1.3" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: commons-io:commons-io:2.4" level="project" />
   </component>
 </module>

pom.xml

@@ -16,7 +16,44 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-            <version>2.8.6</version>
+            <version>2.9.4</version>
         </dependency>
-    </dependencies>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>com.mashape.unirest</groupId>
+                <artifactId>unirest-java</artifactId>
+                <version>1.4.9</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+                <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+                <version>4.3.6</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+                <artifactId>httpasyncclient</artifactId>
+                <version>4.0.2</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+                <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
+                <version>4.3.6</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.json</groupId>
+                <artifactId>json</artifactId>
+                <version>20140107</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>junit</groupId>
+                <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+                <version>4.11</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+                <version>2.4</version>
+                <scope>test</scope>
+            </dependency>
+        </dependencies>
 </project>