{Trying to push through leftovers}

Client/Client.iml

@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
     <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" />
@@ -14,5 +12,9 @@
     <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: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.5.6" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.4.10" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: commons-logging:commons-logging:1.2" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: commons-codec:commons-codec:1.10" level="project" />
   </component>
 </module>

Client/src/main/java/YouAreEll.java

@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
+import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
 public class YouAreEll {
 
     YouAreEll() {
@@ -5,19 +14,49 @@ public class 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", ""));
+        try {
+            System.out.println(urlhandler.MakeURLCall("/ids", "GET", ""));
+            System.out.println(urlhandler.MakeURLCall("/messages", "GET", ""));
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
     }
 
     public String get_ids() {
-        return MakeURLCall("/ids", "GET", "");
+        String temp = null;
+        try {
+            temp =  MakeURLCall("/ids", "GET", "");
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+        return temp;
     }
 
     public String get_messages() {
-        return MakeURLCall("/messages", "GET", "");
+        String temp = null;
+        try {
+            temp =  MakeURLCall("/messages", "GET", "");
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+        return temp;
     }
 
-    public String MakeURLCall(String mainurl, String method, String jpayload) {
-        return "nada";
+    public String MakeURLCall(String mainurl, String method, String jpayload) throws IOException {
+        String baseURL = "http://zipcode.rocks:8085";
+        String response;
+
+        CloseableHttpClient closeableHttpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
+
+        HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(baseURL + mainurl);
+
+        CloseableHttpResponse response1 = closeableHttpClient.execute(httpGet);
+
+        HttpEntity httpEntity = response1.getEntity();
+
+        response = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity);
+
+        return response;
+
     }
 }

YouAreEll.iml

@@ -11,5 +11,9 @@
     <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: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.5.6" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.4.10" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: commons-logging:commons-logging:1.2" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" name="Maven: commons-codec:commons-codec:1.10" level="project" />
   </component>
 </module>

pom.xml

@@ -18,5 +18,12 @@
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
             <version>2.8.6</version>
         </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+            <version>4.5.6</version>
+        </dependency>
+
     </dependencies>
 </project>