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Tone API quickstart

Java Tone Checker

Analyze overall and sentence-level tone from a Java application across 28 fine-grained categories.

  • HTTPS POST
  • JSON HTTP API
  • Bearer API key
POST Java logo Java /api/v1/tone

Java tone checker quickstart

Send text to the tone endpoint. The response ranks overall tones and returns a separate probability breakdown for every sentence.

No language-specific SDK is required. The example uses a standard or commonly used HTTP client to call Sapling's JSON API.
Java /api/v1/tone

This example uses the HTTP client included with Java 11 and newer.

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    String apiKey = System.getenv("SAPLING_API_KEY");
    if (apiKey == null || apiKey.isBlank()) {
      throw new IllegalStateException("Set SAPLING_API_KEY first.");
    }

    String payload = "{"
        + "\"text\":\"Really stoked about this! Will it be ready by next week?\""
        + "}";

    HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
        .uri(URI.create("https://api.sapling.ai/api/v1/tone"))
        .header("Authorization", "Bearer " + apiKey)
        .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
        .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString(payload))
        .build();

    HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(
        request,
        HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

    if (response.statusCode() < 200 || response.statusCode() >= 300) {
      throw new IllegalStateException(
          "Sapling API error " + response.statusCode() + ": " + response.body());
    }

    System.out.println(response.body());
  }
}
Example response application/json
{
  "overall": [
    [0.9247, "curious", "🤓"],
    [0.0455, "excited", "😀"],
    [0.0057, "confused", "😕"]
  ],
  "results": [
    [[0.9937, "excited", "😀"]],
    [[0.5469, "confused", "😕"], [0.3993, "curious", "🤓"]]
  ],
  "sents": [
    "Really stoked about this!",
    "Will it be ready by next week?"
  ]
}

Probabilities are returned in descending order as probability, tone, and emoji tuples. Use sentence results when a message contains mixed tones.

About Java

Java is a popular object-oriented programming language that can run across many different platforms through the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Java has C/C++ style syntax but comes with automatic memory management and less low-level primitives.