POST xml data using java

Question

I have used the following java code to POST xml data to a remote url and get the response. Here, I am using an xml file as the input. What I need is to pass the xml as a string

Answer 1

The setRequestEntity method on org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod has an overloaded version that accepts StringRequestEntity as argument. You should use this if you wish to pass in your data as a string (as opposed to an input stream). So your code would look something like this:

String xml = "whatever.your.xml.is.here";
PostMethod post = new PostMethod(strURL);     
try {
    StringRequestEntity requestEntity = new StringRequestEntity(xml);
    post.setRequestEntity(requestEntity);
....

Hope that helps.