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Andrewbuch
Andrewbuch

Reputation: 31

how to do a HTTP post to a web service?

I need to do a HTTP post to a web service..

If I place this into a web browser like this

http://server/ilwebservice.asmx/PlaceGPSCords?userid=99&longitude=-25.258&latitude=25.2548

then is stores the values to our DB on the server..

In Eclipse, using Java programming for android.. The url will look like

http://server/ilwebservice.asmx/PlaceGPSCords?userid="+uid+"&longitude="+lng1+"&latitude="+lat1+"

with uid, lng1 and lat1 being assigned as strings..

How would I run this?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 9609

Answers (4)

Lalit Poptani
Lalit Poptani

Reputation: 67286

Infact I had done already what you are going to do. So try this stff. You can create a method like this what I have and pass your URL with lat, long. This is return you the response of the HTTP connection.

public static int sendData(String url) throws IOException
    {
        try{
            urlobj = new URL(url);
            conn = urlobj.openConnection();
            httpconn= (HttpURLConnection)conn;
            httpconn.setConnectTimeout(5000);
            httpconn.setDoInput(true);
        }
        catch(Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();}
        try{
            responseCode = httpconn.getResponseCode();}
        catch(Exception e){
            responseCode = -1;
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return responseCode;
    }

Upvotes: 2

Albataur
Albataur

Reputation: 97

I'm not sure I understood your question, but if I did I think you can use java.net.UrlConnection :

URL url = new URL("http://server/ilwebservice.asmx/PlaceGPSCords?userid="+uid+"&longitude="+lng1+"&latitude="+lat1);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.connect();

Upvotes: 0

anujprashar
anujprashar

Reputation: 6335

For http post use name value pair. See below code -

    List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(1);
    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("longitude", long1));
    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("latitude", lat1));
    HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
    httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePair));
    HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

Upvotes: 2

jussi
jussi

Reputation: 2216

try {
    HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();  
    String getURL = "http://server/ilwebservice.asmx/PlaceGPSCords?userid="+uid+"&longitude="+lng1+"&latitude="+lat1+";
    HttpGet get = new HttpGet(getURL);
    HttpResponse responseGet = client.execute(get);  
    HttpEntity resEntityGet = responseGet.getEntity();  
    if (resEntityGet != null) {  
                //do something with the response
                Log.i("GET RESPONSE",EntityUtils.toString(resEntityGet));
            }
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

Upvotes: 5

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