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molleman
molleman

Reputation: 2946

How to send objects from android to servlet?

I am looking at sending objects over http from an android client to my server that is running java servlets. The object can hold a bitmap image, and I am just wondering if you could show me an example of sending an object from the client to the server.

I read on the forms that people say to use JSON , but it seems to me JSON works with only textual data. If it does not could someone show me how to use it with objects that contain images

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2166

Answers (4)

Nathaniel de Pano
Nathaniel de Pano

Reputation: 11

I recommend you use XStream

XStream for your servlet side: http://x-stream.github.io/tutorial.html

XStream code optimized for Android: http://jars.de/java/android-xml-serialization-with-xstream

If you are sending images and such, wrap them into a 'envelope' class that contains a byte array like the one here: Serializing and De-Serializing android.graphics.Bitmap in Java

Then use HttpClient in your android app to send the data to your servlet ^^ Also make sure that both the app and the servlet have the same classes ^^

Upvotes: 1

Piyush Agarwal
Piyush Agarwal

Reputation: 25858

Here is the code for hitting a servlet and send data to the server.

boolean hitServlet(final Context context, final String data1,final String data2) {
    String serverUrl = SERVER_URL + "/YourSevletName";
    Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
    params.put("data1", data1);
    params.put("data2" data2)
    long backoff = BACKOFF_MILLI_SECONDS + random.nextInt(1000);
    // As the server might be down, we will retry it a couple
    // times.
    for (int i = 1; i <= MAX_ATTEMPTS; i++) {
        try {
            post(serverUrl, params);
            return true;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // Here we are simplifying and retrying on any error; in a real
            // application, it should retry only on unrecoverable errors
            // (like HTTP error code 503).
            Log.e(TAG, "Failed " + i, e);
            if (i == MAX_ATTEMPTS) {
                break;
            }
            try {
                Log.d(TAG, "Sleeping for " + backoff + " ms before retry");
                Thread.sleep(backoff);
            } catch (InterruptedException e1) {

                // Activity finished before we complete - exit.
                Log.d(TAG, "Thread interrupted: abort remaining retries!");
                Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
                return false;
            }
            // increase backoff exponentially
            backoff *= 2;
        }
    }

    return false;
}

Upvotes: 0

Bharat Godhani
Bharat Godhani

Reputation: 110

Socket Api is also well. Creating socket in both side will allow to send raw data to be transmitted from client android application to server.

Upvotes: 0

BalusC
BalusC

Reputation: 1108652

To send binary data between a Java client and a Java server which is connected by HTTP, you have basically 2 options.

  1. Serialize it, i.e. let object implement Serializable, have an exact copy of the .class file on both sides and send it by ObjectInputStream and read it by ObjectInputStream. Advantage: ridiculously easy. Disadvantage: poor backwards compatibility (when you change the object to add a new field, you've to write extremely a lot of extra code and checks to ensure backwards compatibitility) and bad reusability (not reusable on other clients/servers than Java ones).

  2. Use HTTP multipart/form-data. Advandage: very compatible (a web standard) and very good reusability (server is reusable on other clients and client is reusable on other servers). Disadvantage: harder to implement (fortunately there are APIs and libraries for this). In Android you can use builtin HttpClient API to send it. In Servlet you can use Apache Commons FileUpload to parse it.

Upvotes: 2

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