public static List getInfoForIDs()

in api-reference-examples/java/te-tag-query/com/facebook/threatexchange/Net.java [234:355]
77 lines of code
10 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

  public static List<ThreatDescriptor> getInfoForIDs(
    List<String> ids,
    boolean verbose,
    boolean showURLs,
    boolean includeIndicatorInOutput
  ) {
    // Check well-formattedness of descriptor IDs (which may have come from
    // arbitrary data on stdin).
    for (String id : ids) {
      try {
        Long.valueOf(id);
      } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
        System.err.printf("Malformed descriptor ID \"%s\"\n", id);
        System.exit(1);
      }
    }

    // See also
    // https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threat-exchange/reference/apis/threat-descriptor/v6.0
    // for available fields
    String url = TE_BASE_URL
      + "/?access_token=" + APP_TOKEN
      + "&ids=%5B" + String.join(",", ids) + "%5D"
      + "&fields=raw_indicator,type,added_on,last_updated,first_active,last_active,expired_on,confidence,owner,privacy_type,review_status,status,severity,share_level,tags,description";
    if (showURLs) {
      System.out.println("URL:");
      System.out.println(url);
    }

    List<ThreatDescriptor> threatDescriptors = new ArrayList<ThreatDescriptor>();
    try (InputStream response = new URL(url).openConnection().getInputStream()) {
      // {
      //    "990927953l366387": {
      //       "raw_indicator": "87f4b261064696075fffceee39471952",
      //       "type": "HASH_MD5",
      //       "added_on": "2018-03-21T18:47:23+0000",
      //       "confidence": 100,
      //       "owner": {
      //          "id": "788842735455502",
      //          "email": "contactemail\u0040companyname.com",
      //          "name": "Name of App"
      //       },
      //       "review_status": "REVIEWED_AUTOMATICALLY",
      //       "severity": "WARNING",
      //       "share_level": "AMBER",
      //       "tags": {
      //          "data": [
      //             {
      //                "id": "8995447960580728",
      //                "text": "media_type_video"
      //             },
      //             {
      //                "id": "6000177b99449380",
      //                "text": "media_priority_test"
      //             }
      //          ]
      //       },
      //       "id": "4019972332766623"
      //    },
      //    ...
      //  }

      JSONObject outer = (JSONObject) new JSONParser().parse(new InputStreamReader(response));

      for (Iterator iterator = outer.keySet().iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
        String key = (String) iterator.next();
        JSONObject item = (JSONObject) outer.get(key);

        if (verbose) {
          System.out.println(item.toString());
        }

        JSONObject owner = (JSONObject)item.get("owner");

        JSONObject td_subjective_tags = (JSONObject)item.get("tags");
        List<String> tagTexts = new ArrayList<String>();
        if (td_subjective_tags != null) {
          JSONArray tag_data = (JSONArray)td_subjective_tags.get("data");
          int n = tag_data.size();
          for (int j = 0; j < n; j++) {
            JSONObject tag = (JSONObject) tag_data.get(j);
            String tagText = (String)tag.get("text");
            tagTexts.add(tagText);
          }
          Collections.sort(tagTexts); // canonicalize
        }

        String description = (String)item.get("description");
        if (description == null) {
          description = "";
        }

        ThreatDescriptor threatDescriptor = new ThreatDescriptor(
          (String)item.get("id"),
          (String)item.get("raw_indicator"),
          (String)item.get("type"),
          (String)item.get("added_on"),
          (String)item.get("last_updated"),
          (String)item.get("first_active"), // may be null
          (String)item.get("last_active"), // may be null
          (String)item.get("expired_on"), // may be null
          Long.toString((Long)item.get("confidence")),
          (String)owner.get("id"),
          (String)owner.get("email"),
          (String)owner.get("name"),
          (String)item.get("privacy_type"),
          (String)item.get("review_status"),
          (String)item.get("status"),
          (String)item.get("severity"),
          (String)item.get("share_level"),
          tagTexts,
          description
        );

        threatDescriptors.add(threatDescriptor);
      }
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace(System.err);
      System.exit(1);
    }
    return threatDescriptors;
  }