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Java HttpURLConnection is not sending a body

I'm trying to send a PUT request with a body to my API in my Android app with Java. I'm using the java.net HttpURLConnection and the request gets through. But without the body.
I refactored my code over and over again but it still does not work, at the moment I have following Task:
#Override
protected String doInBackground(String... urls) {
String result = "";
URL url;
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
JSONObject body = new JSONObject();
try {
body.put("title", title);
body.put("content", content);
try {
url = new URL(urls[0]);
urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
urlConnection.setRequestMethod("PUT");
urlConnection.addRequestProperty("username", username);
urlConnection.addRequestProperty("password", password);
urlConnection.addRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json; utf-8");
urlConnection.addRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
try(OutputStream os = urlConnection.getOutputStream()){
byte[] input = body.toString().getBytes("utf-8");
os.write(input, 0, input.length);
}
InputStream in = urlConnection.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(in);
int data = reader.read();
while (data != -1){
char current = (char) data;
result += current;
data += current;
data = reader.read();
}
return result;
}catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
}
But this code leads always to an empty body.
EDIT
When changing content type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded the server gets the body. But this way I don't get a JSON file for further processing it.

The java code is working correctly. The API wasn't accepting JSON. Other languages worked without problems.
Server Info
Node.js
Express
Body Parser
I didn't add app.use(bodyParser.json());

How to call subsequent request using j_security_check

How to call subsequent requests using j_security_check, I have followed below code but it's not working .
String url = "https://myhost/jsp/j_security_check?j_username=myuser&j_password=mypassword";
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new
URL(url).openConnection();
if (connection.getResponseCode() == 200) {
String cookie = connection.getHeaderField("Set-Cookie").split(";", 2)[0];
url = "https://myhost/getusers";
connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection();
connection.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookie);
connection.setRequestProperty("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();
try (BufferedReader buffer = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()))) {
String result = buffer.lines().collect(Collectors.joining("\n"));
System.out.println(result);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Can anyone help me on it.

Send PUT, DELETE HTTP request in HttpURLConnection

I have created web service call using java below code. Now I need to make delete and put operations to be perform.
URL url = new URL("http://example.com/questions");
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestMethod( "POST" );
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
OutputStream os = conn.getOutputStream();
os.write(jsonBody.getBytes());
os.flush();
When I add below code to perform DELETE action it gives errors saying:
java.net.ProtocolException: HTTP method DELETE doesn't support output.
conn.setRequestMethod( "DELETE" );
So how to perform delete and put requests?

PUT example using HttpURLConnection:
URL url = null;
try {
url = new URL("http://localhost:8080/putservice");
} catch (MalformedURLException exception) {
exception.printStackTrace();
}
HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = null;
DataOutputStream dataOutputStream = null;
try {
httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpURLConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("PUT");
httpURLConnection.setDoInput(true);
httpURLConnection.setDoOutput(true);
dataOutputStream = new DataOutputStream(httpURLConnection.getOutputStream());
dataOutputStream.write("hello");
} catch (IOException exception) {
exception.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (dataOutputStream != null) {
try {
dataOutputStream.flush();
dataOutputStream.close();
} catch (IOException exception) {
exception.printStackTrace();
}
}
if (httpsURLConnection != null) {
httpsURLConnection.disconnect();
}
}
DELETE example using HttpURLConnection:
URL url = null;
try {
url = new URL("http://localhost:8080/deleteservice");
} catch (MalformedURLException exception) {
exception.printStackTrace();
}
HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = null;
try {
httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpURLConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("DELETE");
System.out.println(httpURLConnection.getResponseCode());
} catch (IOException exception) {
exception.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (httpURLConnection != null) {
httpURLConnection.disconnect();
}
}

FOR PUT
URL url = new URL("http://www.example.com/resource");
HttpURLConnection httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpCon.setDoOutput(true);
httpCon.setRequestMethod("PUT");
OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(
httpCon.getOutputStream());
out.write("Resource content");
out.close();
httpCon.getInputStream();
FOR DELETE
URL url = new URL("http://www.example.com/resource");
HttpURLConnection httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpCon.setDoOutput(true);
httpCon.setRequestProperty(
"Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" );
httpCon.setRequestMethod("DELETE");
httpCon.connect();
Actually got it from the link here:
Send PUT, DELETE HTTP request in HttpURLConnection

i suggest you to use restlet client for web service request .please refer the bellow sample code ,it may help you
Client client = new Client(new Context(), Protocol.HTTP);
clientResource = new ClientResource(url);
ResponseRepresentation responseRep = null;
try {
clientResource.setNext(client);
clientResource.delete();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

FileNotFoundException on HttpsURLConnection with POST and unmutable doOutput variable

I'm trying to POST some data to an https url, in my android application, in order to get a json format response.
I'm facing two problems:
is = conn.getInputStream();
throws
java.io.FileNotFoundException
I don't get if i do something wrong with HttpsURLConnection.
The second problem arose when i debug the code (used eclipse); I set a breakpoint after
conn.setDoOutput(true);
and, when inspecting conn values, I see that the variable doOutput remain set to false and type GET.
My method for https POST is the following, where POSTData is a class extending ArrayList<NameValuePair>
private static String httpsPOST(String urlString, POSTData postData, List<HttpCookie> cookies) {
String result = null;
HttpsURLConnection conn = null;
OutputStream os = null;
InputStream is = null;
try {
URL url = new URL(urlString);
conn = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setReadTimeout(10000);
conn.setConnectTimeout(15000);
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setUseCaches (false);
conn.setDoInput(true);
conn.setDoOutput(true);
if(cookies != null)
conn.setRequestProperty("Cookie",
TextUtils.join(";", cookies));
os = conn.getOutputStream();
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(
new OutputStreamWriter(os, "UTF-8"));
writer.write(postData.getPostData());
writer.flush();
writer.close();
is = conn.getInputStream();
BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(is));
StringBuilder total = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while ((line = r.readLine()) != null) {
total.append(line);
}
result = total.toString();
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (os != null) {
try {
os.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
}
if (is != null) {
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
}
if (conn != null) {
conn.disconnect();
}
}
return result;
}
A little update: apparently eclipse debug lied to me, running and debugging on netbeans shows a POST connection. Error seems to be related to parameters i'm passing to the url.

FileNotFoundException means that the URL you posted to doesn't exist, or couldn't be mapped to a servlet. It is the result of an HTTP 404 status code.
Don't worry about what you see in the debugger if it doesn't agree with how the program behaves. If doOutput really wasn't enabled, you would get an exception obtaining the output stream.

Java, FileNotfound Exception, While reading conn.getInputStream()

Please tell me some one, How to resolve this problem,
Sometime I am getting Filenotfound Exception and Some time this code working fine.
Below is my code,
public String sendSMS(String data, String url1) {
URL url;
String status = "Somthing wrong ";
try {
url = new URL(url1);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent","Mozilla/5.0 ( compatible ) ");
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept","*/*");
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(data);
wr.flush();
// Get the response
try {
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String s;
while ((s = rd.readLine()) != null) {
status = s;
}
rd.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
wr.close();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
status = "MalformedURLException Exception in sendSMS";
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
status = "IO Exception in sendSMS";
e.printStackTrace();
}
return status;
}

Rewrite like this and let me know how you go... (note closing of reading and writing streams, also the cleanup of streams if an exception is thrown).
public String sendSMS(String data, String url1) {
URL url;
OutputStreamWriter wr = null;
BufferedReader rd = null;
String status = "Somthing wrong ";
try {
url = new URL(url1);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent","Mozilla/5.0 ( compatible ) ");
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept","*/*");
wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(data);
wr.flush();
wr.close();
rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String s;
while ((s = rd.readLine()) != null) {
status = s;
}
rd.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
if (wr != null) try { wr.close(); } catch (Exception x) {/*cleanup*/}
if (rd != null) try { rd.close(); } catch (Exception x) {/*cleanup*/}
e.printStackTrace();
}
return status;
}

This issue seems to be known, but for different reasons so its not clear why this happend.
Some threads would recommend closing the OutputStreamWriter as flushing it is not enough, therefor i would try to clos it directly after fushing as you are not using it in the code between the flush and close.
Other threads show that using a different connections like HttpURLConnection are avoiding this problem from occuring (Take a look here)
Another article suggests to use the URLEncoder class’ static method encode. This method takes a string and encodes it to a string that is ok to put in a URL.
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Wish you good luck.

It returns FileNotFoundException when the server response to HTTP request is code 404.
Check your URL.