The PromptJuggler Java SDK is a thin, typed wrapper over the public REST API. You call flat,
synchronous methods and get back typed model objects — authentication, request building, and
JSON (de)serialization are handled for you. It runs on the JDK’s built-in HTTP client, so it
pulls in no third-party HTTP stack.
Requirements
Installation
implementation("com.promptjuggler:promptjuggler-java:1.0.0")
Use the latest version from Maven Central.
Set up the client
Create an API key in Settings, then construct the
client once and reuse it (it is thread-safe):
import com.promptjuggler.PromptJuggler;
PromptJuggler pj = new PromptJuggler("your-api-key");
The key is sent as a Bearer token to https://promptjuggler.com. Point the SDK at another
host (e.g. for testing) with the two-argument constructor: new PromptJuggler(apiKey, baseUrl).
Per-endpoint usage
Every endpoint in the API reference includes a Java SDK code sample
showing the exact call — that’s the place to look for how to invoke each operation and what
it returns. A typical flow:
import com.promptjuggler.client.model.CreatePromptRunResponse;
import com.promptjuggler.client.model.PromptRun;
import com.promptjuggler.client.model.RunStatus;
import java.util.Map;
// Trigger a run (async — returns immediately with the run ID)
CreatePromptRunResponse created = pj.runPrompt("greeting", "production", Map.of("name", "Ada"));
// Poll for the result
PromptRun run = pj.getPromptRun(created.getId());
if (run.getStatus() == RunStatus.COMPLETED) {
System.out.println(run.getOutput());
}
Optional run parameters (priority, thread, environment, metadata, …) go through a
RunOptions builder passed as the last argument:
import com.promptjuggler.RunOptions;
RunOptions options = RunOptions.builder().environment("staging").priority("onsite").build();
pj.runPrompt("greeting", "production", Map.of("name", "Ada"), options);
Methods return typed model objects with validated fields. They are read-only data — read
the fields, don’t write them back.
Error handling
When the API responds with an error status, the SDK throws an ApiError carrying the HTTP
status code and the server’s message. When the request never reaches the API (DNS failure,
timeout, offline), it throws a NetworkError. Both extend PromptJugglerException, which is
checked — every call that reaches the API declares throws PromptJugglerException, so the
compiler makes you handle (or propagate) the failure. Catch the base to handle the whole surface
at once, or catch ApiError first when you need the status code:
import com.promptjuggler.ApiError;
import com.promptjuggler.PromptJugglerException;
try {
pj.getPrompt("does-not-exist", "production");
} catch (ApiError error) {
error.statusCode(); // e.g. 404
error.getMessage(); // the server's error message
} catch (PromptJugglerException error) {
// a NetworkError or any other SDK failure
}
You never catch a generated-client error — the SDK translates the underlying client’s errors
into its own.
Webhooks
PromptJuggler signs every webhook with the PromptJuggler-Signature header. Verify it against
the raw request body, before any JSON parsing:
import com.promptjuggler.Webhooks;
String payload = request.getBody(); // the raw request body, as text
String signature = request.getHeader("PromptJuggler-Signature");
if (!Webhooks.verifySignature(payload, signature, "your-webhook-secret")) {
// reject the delivery (e.g. respond 403)
}
Webhooks.verifySignature recomputes the HMAC-SHA256 of {timestamp}.{raw_body}, compares it
in constant time, and rejects deliveries whose timestamp falls outside a tolerance window
(default 300s) to prevent replay. Widen or narrow it with the five-argument overload.