Performing HTTP POST operation in JAVA

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Consider the following scenario:

A person wants to make a simple HTTP POST using JSON in Java.

Let's say the URL is www.site.com

and it takes in the value {"name":"myname","age":"20"} labeled as 'details' for example.

How would he go about creating the syntax for the POST?

Also please point me to POST method in the JSON Javadocs.
May 31, 2018 in Java by developer_1
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2 answers to this question.

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I would suggest the following two ways:

1. One is through the below mentioned code

HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();

try {
    HttpPost request = new HttpPost("http://yoururl");
    StringEntity params =new StringEntity("details={\"name\":\"myname\",\"age\":\"20\"} ");
    request.addHeader("content-type", "application/json");
    request.addHeader("Accept","application/json");
    request.setEntity(params);
    HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);

    // handle response here...
}catch (Exception ex) {
    // handle exception here
} finally {
    httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
}

2. Also you can make use of Gson library to convert your java classes to JSON objects.

Create a pojo class for variables you want to send as per above Example

{"name":"myname","age":"20"}

becomes

class pojo1
{
   String name;
   String age;
   //generate setter and getters
}

once you set the variables in pojo1 class you can send that using the following code

String       postUrl       = "www.site.com";// put in your url
Gson         gson          = new Gson();
HttpClient   httpClient    = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
HttpPost     post          = new HttpPost(postUrl);
StringEntity postingString = new StringEntity(gson.toJson(pojo1));//gson.tojson() converts your pojo to json
post.setEntity(postingString);
post.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
HttpResponse  response = httpClient.execute(post);

and these are the imports

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;

and for GSON

import com.google.gson.Gson;
answered May 31, 2018 by Rishabh
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I'm using JSON-Java to build my JSON object:

JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
json.put("someKey", "someValue");    

CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();

try {
    HttpPost request = new HttpPost("http://yoururl");
    StringEntity params = new StringEntity(json.toString());
    request.addHeader("content-type", "application/json");
    request.setEntity(params);
    httpClient.execute(request);
// handle response here...
} catch (Exception ex) {
    // handle exception here
} finally {
    httpClient.close();
}
answered Nov 26, 2018 by Sushmita
• 6,920 points

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