Tutorial

The following examples do not necessary work out of the box as we do not provide the required backend for receiving the data. Think of the following as examples how to setup HttpClients. Download the HttpClient libraries from the Apache Website, you can download the "bin" package it includes all dependencies.

Create the Java project "de.vogella.web.httpclient", and add them to the path of your Java project. We use the project for creating our tests.

The following will send a post request to the URL "http://vogellac2dm.appspot.com/register" and include a parameter "registrationid" which an random value.

				
package de.vogella.web.httpclient;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;

public class SimpleHttpPut { 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
		HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://vogellac2dm.appspot.com/register");
		try {
			List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(1);
			nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("registrationid",
					"123456789"));
			post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
 
			HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
			BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
					response.getEntity().getContent()));
			String line = "";
			while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
				System.out.println(line);
			}

		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

			

The following request adds several parameters to the post request.

				package de.vogella.web.httpclient;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;

public class TestHttpClient {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
		HttpPost post = new HttpPost(
				"https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin");

		try {

			List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(1);
			nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("Email", "youremail"));
			nameValuePairs
					.add(new BasicNameValuePair("Passwd", "yourpassword"));
			nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("accountType", "GOOGLE"));
			nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("source",
					"Google-cURL-Example"));
			nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("service", "ac2dm"));

			post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
			HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
			BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
					response.getEntity().getContent()));

			String line = "";
			while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
				System.out.println(line);
				if (line.startsWith("Auth=")) {
					String key = line.substring(5);
					// Do something with the key
				}

			}
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}