I am attempting to replicate the following C# code in Java. This code is a helper class that sends a request containing xml, and reads a response.
internal static String Send(String url, String body)
{
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
try
{
// create the new httpwebrequest with the uri
request.ContentLength = 0;
// set the method to POST
request.Method = "POST";
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(body))
{
request.ContentType = "application/xml; charset=utf-8";
byte[] postData = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(body);
request.ContentLength = postData.Length;
using (Stream s = request.GetRequestStream())
{
s.Write(postData, 0, postData.Length);
}
}
using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
String responseString = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
if (response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
throw new ResponseException(((int)response.StatusCode),
response.StatusCode.ToString(), request.RequestUri.ToString(),
responseString);
}
return responseString;
}
}
catch (WebException e)
{
using (WebResponse response = e.Response)
{
HttpWebResponse httpResponse = response as HttpWebResponse;
if (httpResponse != null)
{
using (Stream data = response.GetResponseStream())
{
data.Position = 0;
throw new ResponseException(((int)httpResponse.StatusCode),
httpResponse.StatusCode.ToString(), request.RequestUri.ToString(),
new StreamReader(data).ReadToEnd()
);
}
}
else
{
throw;
}
After reading other threads I determined that the Apache HttpComponents library would be my best bet to get the same functionality. After reading the documentation and following the example here:
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/quickstart.html
I am unable to figure out how to send the body string as xml. When I attempt to set the entity for the request it requires that I declare a BasicNameValuePair, and I do not understand what this is, or how I would format the body string to meet this specification.
Below is what I have currently done.
protected static String Send(String url, String body)
{
HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url);
try
{
request.setHeader("ContentType", "application/xml; charset=utf=8");
// Encode the body if needed
request.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity());
//get the response
// if the response code is not valid throw a ResponseException
// else return the response string.
} finally {
request.releaseConnection();
}
return null;
}
EDIT : or should I use a StringEntity and do the following
protected static String SendToJetstream(String url, String body)
{
HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url);
try
{
StringEntity myEntity = new StringEntity(body,
ContentType.create("application/xml", "UTF-8"));
// Encode the body if needed
request.setEntity(myEntity);
//get the response
// if the response code is not valid throw a ResponseException
// else return the response string.
} finally {
request.releaseConnection();
}
return null;
}