Send JSON from Java to PHP through Post

Question

I am doing an Android program that is supposed to send data from the tablet to a PHP Web Service. The code for sending the JSON:

package com.example.shvalida         


        

Answer 1

From the comments section, it appears you only want the JSON being sent to your PHP script. Normally, you post POST this to PHP, and extract it:

<?php
    print_r($_POST);
    $json_string = $_POST['message']; 
    $json = json_decode($json_string);
    print_r($json);
?>

And then a small client example:

public static void main(String[] args) {

    String json = "{\"message\":\"This is a message\"}";

    HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();

    try {
        HttpPost request = new HttpPost("http://somesite.com/test.php");
        StringEntity params =new StringEntity("message=" + json);
        request.addHeader("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
        request.setEntity(params);
        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);

        // handle response here...

        System.out.println(org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity()));
        org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils.consume(response.getEntity());
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        // handle exception here
    } finally {
        httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
    }
}

The output of this is:

Array
(
    [message] => {"message":"This is a message"}
)
stdClass Object
(
    [message] => This is a message
)