How to stream a JSON object to a HttpURLConnection POST request

Question

I can not see what is wrong with this code:

JSONObject msg;  //passed in as a parameter to this method

HttpURLConnection httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openC         


        

Answer 1

HttpURLConnection is cumbersome to use. With DavidWebb, a tiny wrapper around HttpURLConnection, you can write it like this:

JSONObject msg;  //passed in as a parameter to this method

Webb webb = Webb.create();
JSONObject result = webb.post("http://my-url/path/to/res")
    .useCaches(false)
    .body(msg)
    .ensureSuccess()
    .asJsonObject()
    .getBody();

If you don't like it, there is a list of alternative libraries on the link provided.

Why should we all write the same boilerplate code every day? BTW the code above is more readable and less error-prone. HttpURLConnection has an awful interface. This has to be wrapped!