Connect to HTTP server via Phonegap

Question

I have server component which connects to a remote server via HTTP(s) and gets some response. Can I connect to such a server side code in a java plugin if I am using Phonegap for Android ?

Answer 1

You can use xmlHttpRequest method of javascript to get the response from server or you can use jquery plugin http://jquery.com/ in your app and play with ajax function of jquery.

$.ajax({  
   url:'stringURL',  
   beforeSend: function(x) {      
     x.setRequestHeader('Authorization','username/pwd');  
   },  
   dataType:"xml",  
   contentType:'application/xml',  
   timeout:10000,  
   type:'POST',  
   success:function(data) {  
     alert(data);  
   },  
   error:function(XMLHttpRequest,textStatus, errorThrown) {     
     alert("Error status :"+textStatus);  
     alert("Error type :"+errorThrown);  
     alert("Error message :"+XMLHttpRequest.responseXML);  
   }
});

Answer 2

You can consider using angular '$http' for such requests as well.

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$http

Angular works really well with phonegap due to the single-page nature.