HttpGet with request body android

Question

I try to make a request on server by HttpGet. But in message body should be a json object. Code below is not working because unit_id and sercret_key are not sent on server in bo

Answer 1

Basically, you cannot send row data in the body (JSON or anything) with an HTTP/GET request. The protocol simply does not allow you to do that. Obviously, you will have to use POST to do that in Android too. :)

UPDATE

I was incorrect. Infact the protocol does allow you to put an entity into the request object. This class can be used instead of Apache HttpGet.

public class HttpGetWithEntity extends HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase {

    public HttpGetWithEntity() {
        super();
    }

    public HttpGetWithEntity(URI uri) {
        super();
        setURI(uri);
    }

    public HttpGetWithEntity(String uri) {
        super();
        setURI(URI.create(uri));
    }

    @Override
    public String getMethod() {
        return HttpGet.METHOD_NAME;
    }
}

And use it like as follows,

HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGetWithEntity myGet = new HttpGetWithEntity("Url here");
myGet.setEntity(new StringEntity("This is the body", "UTF8"));
HttpResponse response = client.execute(myGet);

The source for HttpGetWithEntity is found here