Github user aledsage commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-brooklyn/pull/48#discussion_r15048772
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software/base/src/main/java/brooklyn/entity/software/http/HttpRequestSensor.java
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+package brooklyn.entity.software.http;
+
+import brooklyn.config.ConfigKey;
+import brooklyn.entity.basic.ConfigKeys;
+import brooklyn.entity.basic.EntityLocal;
+import brooklyn.entity.effector.AddSensor;
+import brooklyn.event.AttributeSensor;
+import brooklyn.event.feed.http.HttpFeed;
+import brooklyn.event.feed.http.HttpPollConfig;
+import brooklyn.event.feed.http.HttpValueFunctions;
+import brooklyn.util.config.ConfigBag;
+import brooklyn.util.time.Duration;
+import com.google.common.base.Functions;
+import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+ * Configurable {@link brooklyn.entity.proxying.EntityInitializer} which
adds an HTTP sensor feed to retrieve the
+ * <code>JSONObject</code> from a JSON response in order to populate the
sensor with the indicated <code>name</code>.
+ */
+public final class HttpRequestSensor<T> extends AddSensor<T,
AttributeSensor<T>> {
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This looks really useful.
Over time, given its name of `HttpRequestSensor`, I can imagine us adding
support for other things like xquery for XML content, or for comparing the http
status code, etc.
Can you mark the class as `@Beta` to give us more scope for such extensions
in the future.
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