How to get response parameter in HttpClient

Question

I am trying to pass some data in one application and get the response from that. For that I am using HttpClient and want to use the value of response in my application. It may be string, int, or boolean

I wrote the following code

HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();

HttpPost request = new HttpPost(
    "http://index.html?email=" + email + 
    "&password=" + password
);

try {
    HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
    InputStream is = entity.getContent();
    BufferedReader bf = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(is,"UTF-8")
    );

    String str = bf.readLine();
        

} catch (Exception e) {
    System.out.println("Error is :- " + e);
}

This link will return parameter login=true/false. Now how can I get the value of the login parameter using response?

Answer 1

All attributes stored in the request are strings. You will have to manually cast it to whatever type they are.

For example you are trying to get a boolean attribute from the request. You will have to do this:

String attr = request.getAttribute("nameOfAttribute");
Boolean bool = Boolean.getBoolean(attr);