Getting response to http posted information.

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digitalte..

Getting response to http posted information.

in Programming Questions • 1 year ago

So, I'm using the code from this forum post (the last post) to post data for an API, but I can't figure out how to deal with the response. The response is an HttpEntity, and the code the other forum post used just printed it, but I want it to be parsed into an XMLElement.

Apparently the entity can be written to an output stream, but I don't really know what that is and really think that I am in over my head here.

Help would be much appreciated.

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PhiLho

Re: Getting response to http posted information.

1 year ago

The message you refer to uses the Apache library. You can also do that in pure Java.
For example, in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~philho/+junk/Processing/files/head:/ImageUpload/ I shown (in DataUpload.java) how to post a file (an image), and get the response from the server, without additional library.

digitalte..

Re: Getting response to http posted information.

1 year ago

That is helpful, and thank you for both of your quick responses. However, I can't find any information on how to use the DataUpload class to post name-value pairs. I found this, but that doesn't seem to be the same, or maybe I'm missing something. Perhaps you could point me towards a website, or tell me yourself?

I also want to say thank you for being such a good help to me and everybody else.

PhiLho

Re: Getting response to http posted information.

1 year ago

The problem is that you are not precise. Is the API really using POST or is it using GET (more suited to send name-value pairs, unless it has side effects)? You can send name-value pairs with POST too, of course.
DataUpload is my class, if you must look up something, it would be the Java classes it uses internally, like HttpURLConnection .

digitalte..

Re: Getting response to http posted information.

1 year ago

Sorry, somehow I missed the DataUpload class. What I wanted to be able to do is use POST to send name-value pairs. The reason the API uses post is because there is a lot of data being sent in those pairs, I think.

But, I did get it to work using HttpURLConnection.

PhiLho

Re: Getting response to http posted information.

1 year ago

See if the article I found at http://alien.dowling.edu/~vassil/tutorials/javapost.php can help you.