Android GET and POST Request

Question

Can anyone point me to a good implementation of a way to send GET and POST Requests. They are alot of ways to do these, and i am looking for the best implementation. Secondly is

Answer 1

You can use the HttpURLConnection class (in java.net) to send a POST or GET HTTP request. It is the same as any other application that might want to send an HTTP request. The code to send an Http Request would look like this:

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class SendPostRequest {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
    URL reqURL = new URL("http://www.stackoverflow.com/"); //the URL we will send the request to
    HttpURLConnection request = (HttpURLConnection) (reqUrl.openConnection());
    String post = "this will be the post data that you will send"
    request.setDoOutput(true);
    request.addRequestProperty("Content-Length", Integer.toString(post.length)); //add the content length of the post data
    request.addRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); //add the content type of the request, most post data is of this type
    request.setMethod("POST");
    request.connect();
    OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(request.getOutputStream()); //we will write our request data here
    writer.write(post);
    writer.flush();
  }
}

A GET request will look a little bit different, but much of the code is the same. You don't have to worry about doing output with streams or specifying the content-length or content-type:

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class SendPostRequest {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
    URL reqURL = new URL("http://www.stackoverflow.com/"); //the URL we will send the request to
    HttpURLConnection request = (HttpURLConnection) (reqUrl.openConnection());
    request.setMethod("GET");
    request.connect();

  }
}