Accessing File Over A Network Using Service Account in Java

Question

I am trying to read a file from a network location using Java.The problem is that the access to that network location requires specific credentials.

Is there any way to specify these credentials in Java and then access teh file over the network.

I am trying to do this from my web application which is running on Weblogic

Thanks, Abhishek

Answer 1

Here is a sample code.

try {
        URL url  = new URL("https://www.visruthcv.appspot.com");
        URLConnection con = url.openConnection();

        HttpURLConnection httpUrlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) con;
        httpUrlConnection.setReadTimeout(10000);
        httpUrlConnection.setConnectTimeout(15000);
        httpUrlConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
        httpUrlConnection.setDoInput(true);
        httpUrlConnection.setDoOutput(true);

        /*
         * for request headers
         */
        httpUrlConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept",
                "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8");
        httpUrlConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Charset",
                "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3");
        httpUrlConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate,sdch");
        httpUrlConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.8");
        httpUrlConnection.setRequestProperty("Connection", "keep-alive");


        /*
         * for adding request parameters
         */
        Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<String, Object>();
        params.put("username", "Visruth");
        params.put("password", "passwd");

        OutputStream os = httpUrlConnection.getOutputStream();
        BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(
                new OutputStreamWriter(os, "UTF-8"));
        writer.write(getQuery(params));
        writer.flush();
        writer.close();
        os.close();

        httpUrlConnection.connect();

        // To write to a file, something like this
        InputStream is = httpUrlConnection.getInputStream();
        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("/home/visruth/Desktop/photo2.jpg");
        int i = 0;
        byte[] b = new byte[1024];

        while((i = is.read(b)) != -1) {
            fos.write(b, 0, i);
        }

    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (ProtocolException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

To make a query string :

//make needful changes for this method if any parameter has multiple values, eg: usernames = "Visruth", usernames = "visruth CV" and etc..
private static String getQuery(Map<String, Object> params)
            throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
        boolean first = true;

        for (Entry<String, Object> pair : params.entrySet() ) {


            if (first) {
                first = false;
            } else {
                result.append("&");
            }


            result.append(URLEncoder.encode(pair.getKey(), "UTF-8"));
            result.append("=");
            result.append(URLEncoder.encode(pair.getValue().toString(), "UTF-8"));
        }

        return result.toString();
    }