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YosiFZ
YosiFZ

Reputation: 7890

Http Post With Body

i have sent method in objective-c of sending http post and in the body i put a string:

NSString *requestBody = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"mystring"];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setHTTPBody:[requestBody dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

now in Android i want to do the same thing and i am looking for a way to set the body of http post.

Upvotes: 17

Views: 159035

Answers (5)

NNguyen
NNguyen

Reputation: 216

You can use HttpClient and HttpPost to send a json string as body:

public void post(String completeUrl, String body) {
    HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(completeUrl);
    httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
    try {
        StringEntity stringEntity = new StringEntity(body);
        httpPost.getRequestLine();
        httpPost.setEntity(stringEntity);

        httpClient.execute(httpPost);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
}

Json body example:

{
  "param1": "value 1",
  "param2": 123,
  "testStudentArray": [
    {
      "name": "Test Name 1",
      "gpa": 3.5
    },
    {
      "name": "Test Name 2",
      "gpa": 3.8
    }
  ]
}

Upvotes: 12

JustDanyul
JustDanyul

Reputation: 14044

You can use HttpClient and HttpPost to build and send the request.

HttpClient client= new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost request = new HttpPost("www.example.com");

List<NameValuePair> pairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
pairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("paramName", "paramValue"));

request.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(pairs ));
HttpResponse resp = client.execute(request);

Upvotes: 14

Amokrane Chentir
Amokrane Chentir

Reputation: 30385

You can try something like this using HttpClient and HttpPost: 

List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("mystring", "value_of_my_string"));
// etc...

// Post data to the server
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://...");
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpclient.execute(httppost);

Upvotes: 8

Suchi
Suchi

Reputation: 10039

You could use this snippet -

HttpURLConnection urlConn;
URL mUrl = new URL(url);
urlConn = (HttpURLConnection) mUrl.openConnection();
...
//query is your body
urlConn.addRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/" + "POST");
if (query != null) {
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", Integer.toString(query.length()));
urlConn.getOutputStream().write(query.getBytes("UTF8"));
}

Upvotes: 11

Nikola Despotoski
Nikola Despotoski

Reputation: 50538

 ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();

then add elements for each pair

 nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("yourReqVar", Value);
 nameValuePairs.add( ..... );

Then use the HttpPost:

HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(URL);
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));

and use the HttpClient and Response to get the response from the server

Upvotes: 3

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