How to make Sync or Async HTTP Post/Get

Question

I need Sync or Async HTTP Post/Get to get HTML data from Web-Service. I search this whole internet but I can't give good result.

I tried to use this examples:

• Android Series get/post and multipost requests
• Jcabi.com
• Execute HTTP Post request in android

but nothing of them working for me.

HttpClient and HttpGet is cross out, error is :

"org.apache.http.client.HttpClient is deprecated "

Code:

try
{
    HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
    String getURL = "google.com";
    HttpGet get = new HttpGet(getURL);
    HttpResponse responseGet = client.execute(get);
    HttpEntity resEntityGet = responseGet.getEntity();
    if (resEntityGet != null)
    {
        //do something with the response 
    }
}
catch (Exception e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 1

The example I have posted below is based on an example that I found on the Android Developer Docs. You can find that example HERE, look at that for a more comprehensive example.

You will be able to make any http requests with the following

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    private static final String TAG = MainActivity.class.getSimpleName();

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        new DownloadTask().execute("http://www.google.com/");
    }

    private class DownloadTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
            //do your request in here so that you don't interrupt the UI thread
            try {
                return downloadContent(params[0]);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                return "Unable to retrieve data. URL may be invalid.";
            }
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
            //Here you are done with the task
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, result, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    }

    private String downloadContent(String myurl) throws IOException {
        InputStream is = null;
        int length = 500;

        try {
            URL url = new URL(myurl);
            HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            conn.setReadTimeout(10000 /* milliseconds */);
            conn.setConnectTimeout(15000 /* milliseconds */);
            conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
            conn.setDoInput(true);
            conn.connect();
            int response = conn.getResponseCode();
            Log.d(TAG, "The response is: " + response);
            is = conn.getInputStream();

            // Convert the InputStream into a string
            String contentAsString = convertInputStreamToString(is, length);
            return contentAsString;
        } finally {
            if (is != null) {
                is.close();
            }
        }
    }

    public String convertInputStreamToString(InputStream stream, int length) throws IOException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
        Reader reader = null;
        reader = new InputStreamReader(stream, "UTF-8");
        char[] buffer = new char[length];
        reader.read(buffer);
        return new String(buffer);
    }
}

You can play around with the code to suit your needs

Answer 2

You can use Volley which gives you everything you need. If you decide to use AsyncTask and program it yourself, I'd recommend to not have AsyncTask inside your Activity, but rather put it in a wrapper class and use a callback to that. This keeps your Activity clean and makes the network code reusable. Which is more or less what they did in Volley.