Using OpenAI ChatGPT API with Java: A comprehensive guide

Manpreet Singh
4 min readJan 15, 2023

ChatGPT is a powerful language model developed by OpenAI that can be used to generate human-like text. The OpenAI API allows developers to access the model and use it in their own applications. In this article, we will discuss how to use the OpenAI API with the Java Spring Framework to generate images with ChatGPT.

Before getting started, you will need to sign up for an API key on the OpenAI website “https://beta.openai.com/account/api-keys”.
Once you have your API key, you can start making requests to the API.

To use the OpenAI API with the Java Spring Framework, you will need to use a library that can handle HTTP requests. One popular library for this is the Spring RestTemplate library. RestTemplate is a powerful and flexible library that allows you to easily send HTTP requests and handle the responses.

First, you’ll need to add the Spring RestTemplate library to your project. You can do this by adding the following dependency to your build.gradle file:

plugins {
id 'java'
id 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.0.1'
id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.0'
}

group = 'com.openai'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = '17'

repositories {
mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
implementation…

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Manpreet Singh

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