Development of the Object-Oriented Java Library for Interaction with the WooCommerce E-Commerce Platform

Abstract

A class model was designed and a Java library was developed based on it with tools for working with entities of the popular e-commerce platform WooCommerce, including products, customers, and orders. The advantages of the developed library are increased type safety at the compilation level, achieved by using enumerations and object types for model class attributes, as opposed to working with strings when organizing interaction with direct use of WooCommerce REST API requests. The designed model uses the tools of the Project Lombok software library to reduce boilerplate code, restrict access to class attributes in accordance with the WooCommerce REST API documentation, and define object "builder" methods with the ability to flexibly initialize their properties. The Gson library tools implemented custom serialization-deserialization of some WooCommerce object attributes to more convenient and secure data types for programming. The OkHttp library was used to organize requests with authorization support. The proposed library is open source and available on GitHub. Its use can be useful in organizing the interaction of Java software systems with online stores on the WooCommerce platform