how do I get a string from my http response android?

Question

I\'ve seen some really ugly looking code from people writing up their own methods of converting an HttpResponse to a string to use later, that looks something like this:

Answer 1

I did it with response handler from the HttpClient.execute documentation. Using handler as a second parameter to the .execute method defines in what format the response should be.
My code is as folows:

HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();

        HttpGet request = new HttpGet(params[0]);
        ResponseHandler handler = new BasicResponseHandler();
        String response = "";
        try {
            response = client.execute(request, handler);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

params[0] is a URL in form of a string. It may be important to say that my server returns responses in JSON. So in the end I convert my response string to JSON.