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httpPost setEntity always empty

I'm trying to make a post to a node.js server but for some reason the body is always empty for me no matter what I try.
I'm testing now towards requestb.in and its always empty there too.
This is the code I use for posting:
public static String post(String url, String json) {
StringBuilder stringBuffer = new StringBuilder();
BufferedReader bufferedReader = null;
try {
HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("http://requestb.in/14a9s7m1");
StringEntity se = new StringEntity("{'string':'string'}", HTTP.UTF_8);
se.setContentType("application/json; charset=UTF-8");
httpPost.setEntity(se);
httpPost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
httpPost.setHeader("hmac", Methods.getMethods().getHmac(json));
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost, localContext);
InputStream inputStream = httpResponse.getEntity().getContent();
bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
String readLine = bufferedReader.readLine();
while (readLine != null) {
stringBuffer.append(readLine);
stringBuffer.append("\n");
readLine = bufferedReader.readLine();
}
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (bufferedReader != null) {
try {
bufferedReader.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
return stringBuffer.toString();
}
This is the requestb.in http://requestb.in/14a9s7m1?inspect
raw body should contain the json string, right?
Any suggestions?

You can make many mistakes when using HttpUrlConnection. I admit that I don't see any error, but this doesn't mean anything.
Since Google doesn't recommend using HttpClient and AndroidHttpClient (except for FROYO or older), but we should use HttpUrlConnection instead, you're on the right way (from a Android perspective).
When using a very lightweight wrapper for HttpUrlConnection called DavidWebb, the code looks like this (I left out hmac-generation):
public class TestWebbRequestBin {
#Test public void stackOverflow20543115() throws Exception {
Webb webb = Webb.create();
webb.setBaseUri("http://requestb.in");
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
jsonObject.put("string", "string");
String json = jsonObject.toString(); // {"string":"string"}
Response<String> response = webb
.post("/1g7afwn1")
.header("Accept", "application/json")
.header("Content-type", "application/json")
.header("hmac", "some-hmac-just-a-test")
.body(json)
.asString();
assertEquals(200, response.getStatusCode());
assertTrue(response.isSuccess());
String body = response.getBody();
assertEquals("ok\n", body);
}
}
When the JSON I post looks like in your example, requestb.in does accept it:
json = "{'string':'string'}";
But this is not valid JSON (here tested in node.js):
> JSON.parse("{'string':'string'}")
SyntaxError: Unexpected token '
at Object.parse (native)
at repl:1:7
at REPLServer.self.eval (repl.js:110:21)
at Interface.<anonymous> (repl.js:239:12)
tl;dr
Take care to send valid JSON
Master HttpUrlConnection or use a simple abstraction library
For nasty bugs you could either debug your node.js code (or console.log(req)) or use a tool like Wireshark.

Try this code to send the string.... In HttpPost you should use key value pairs to send the data.
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(SERVER_URL);
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(1);
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("REQUEST", req));
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs, "UTF-8"));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

I am not sure is this the problems. Can you give a tried?
You are sending invalid JSON format string. This make server unable to accept your invalid json string so your body is empty. To solve this, change following code.
StringEntity se = new StringEntity("{\"string\":\"string\"}", HTTP.UTF_8);

I couldn't get HttpPost to work, but HttpUrlConnection works instead. It solves my problem, but doesn't solve the mysterious no body thing of httpPost.
Here is my solution:
public static String post(String ur2l, String json) {
StringBuilder stringBuffer = new StringBuilder();
BufferedReader bufferedReader = null;
try {
URL url = new URL(ur2l);
HttpURLConnection conn;
conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-type", "application/json");
conn.setRequestProperty("hmac", Methods.getMethods().getHmac(json));
conn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStream os = null;
try {
os = conn.getOutputStream();
os.write(json.getBytes());
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
os.close();
conn.connect();
int respCode = conn.getResponseCode();
if (respCode == 200) {
InputStream inputStream = conn.getInputStream();
bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
String readLine = bufferedReader.readLine();
while (readLine != null) {
stringBuffer.append(readLine);
stringBuffer.append("\n");
readLine = bufferedReader.readLine();
}
}
} catch (MalformedURLException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (bufferedReader != null) {
try {
bufferedReader.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
return stringBuffer.toString();
}

JSON not returning on HTTPPost on Android

I am having problems calling a simple JSON web service from an Android app. The .execute() completes successfully with an 200-OK Status however I am unable to read any JSON output or text.
For the record, if I HttpPost a regular webpage, like Google.com, I can read and parse all the markup. Also, I am able to call the complete urlWithParams string from the device's browser and I see JSON output in the browser. This works in device's browser:
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins=Seattle&destinations=San+Francisco&mode=bicycling&language=fr-FR&sensor=false
When the code runs, the reader is always blank and reader.readLine() never runs. Returns an empty string. If I change the URL to Google.com, it works and returns 17,000 characters. Thanks!
protected String doInBackground(String... uri) {
String responseString = null;
try {
//String urlGoogle = "http://google.com";
//String urlWithParams = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins=Seattle&destinations=San+Francisco&mode=bicycling&language=fr-FR&sensor=false";
String urlOnly = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json";
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(urlOnly);
httpPost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("origins", "Seattle"));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("destinations", "Cleveland"));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("sensor", "false"));
httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpPost);
int status = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
InputStream is = entity.getContent();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
try {
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append((line + "\n"));
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
responseString = sb.toString();
}}
catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return responseString;
}

Maybe you should test other mime types instead of application/json.

1 - Check in your manifest file having INTENET Permission or not.
2 - Use this code its returning data
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
try {
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = reader.readLine()) != null) {
responseString += inputLine;
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

Solved! The blank return when calling the JSON page was due to not having the proxy settings defined. Proxy settings were setup on the device however per this post, HttpClient does NOT inherit them.
Adding the following line resolved my issue. The code is now returning JSON.
HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost("172.21.31.239", 8080);
httpclient.getParams().setParameter(ConnRoutePNames.DEFAULT_PROXY, proxy);

Unable to upload a document using HttpPost

I am trying to upload a document from my local machine to Http using following code but I am getting HTTP 400 Bad request error. My source data is in Json.
URL url = null;
boolean success = false;
try {
FileInputStream fstream;
#SuppressWarnings("resource")
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("C:\\Users\\Desktop\\test.txt"));
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
String line = null;
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
buffer.append(line);
}
String request = "http://example.com";
URL url1 = new URL(request);
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url1.openConnection();
connection.setDoOutput(true); // want to send
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setAllowUserInteraction(false); // no user interaction
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(
connection.getOutputStream());
wr.flush();
wr.close();
connection.disconnect();
System.out.println(connection.getHeaderFields().toString());
// System.out.println(response.toString());
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}

Have a look into apache http libraries which will help a lot with that:
File file = new File("path/to/your/file.txt");
try {
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
String postURL = "http://someposturl.com";
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(postURL);
FileBody bin = new FileBody(file);
MultipartEntity reqEntity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
reqEntity.addPart("myFile", bin);
post.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
HttpEntity resEntity = response.getEntity();
if (resEntity != null) {
Log.i("RESPONSE",EntityUtils.toString(resEntity));
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
The example above is taken from my blog and it should work with standard Java SE as well as Android.

The DataOutputStream is for writing primitive types. This causes it to add extra data to the stream. Why aren't you just flushing the connection?
connection.getOutputStream().flush();
connection.getOutputStream().close();
EDIT:
It also occurs to me that you've not actually written any of your post data, so you probably want a something more like:
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
wr.write(buffer.toString());
wr.close();

How to use HTTP GET with Android? [duplicate]

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how do perform Http GET in android?
I want to use the Google Products/Shopping API in my Android app but I don't know anything about HTTP GET. I'm reading this and it's giving me all these different web adresses to use. So how do I use the Google Products/Shopping API in Android with HTTP GET?

It is useful to get familiar with HTTP first, then with URLConnection and Apache HttpClient.

Here is some sample code where I get JSON from a server. It includes the basic code lines for connecting to something via HTTP.
public JSONArray getQuestionsJSONFromUrl(String url, List<NameValuePair> params) {
// Making HTTP request
try {
// defaultHttpClient
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
String jsonData = reader.readLine();
JSONArray jarr = new JSONArray(jsonData);
is.close();
return jarr;
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
return null;
}

HTTP requests with basic authentication

I have to download and parse XML files from http server with HTTP Basic authentication. Now I'm doing it this way:
URL url = new URL("http://SERVER.WITHOUT.AUTHENTICATION/some.xml");
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = db.parse(new InputSource(url.openStream()));
doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
But in that way I can't get xml (or I'm just simply not aware of that ) document from server with http authentication.
I will be really grateful if you can show me the best and easiest way to reach my goal.

You can use an Authenticator. For example:
Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() {
#Override
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication(
"user", "password".toCharArray());
}
});
This sets the default Authenticator and will be used in all requests. Obviously the setup is more involved when you don't need credentials for all requests or a number of different credentials, maybe on different threads.
Alternatively you can use a DefaultHttpClient where a GET request with basic HTTP authentication would look similar to:
HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("http://foo.com/bar");
httpGet.addHeader(BasicScheme.authenticate(
new UsernamePasswordCredentials("user", "password"),
"UTF-8", false));
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
HttpEntity responseEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
// read the stream returned by responseEntity.getContent()
I recommend using the latter because it gives you a lot more control (e.g. method, headers, timeouts, etc.) over your request.

public String reloadTomcatWebApplication(String user, String pwd, String urlWithParameters, boolean returnResponse) {
URL url = null;
try {
url = new URL(urlWithParameters);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
System.out.println("MalformedUrlException: " + e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
return "-1";
}
URLConnection uc = null;
try {
uc = url.openConnection();
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("IOException: " + e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
return "-12";
}
String userpass = user + ":" + pwd;
String basicAuth = "Basic " + javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(userpass.getBytes());
uc.setRequestProperty("Authorization", basicAuth);
InputStream is = null;
try {
is = uc.getInputStream();
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("IOException: " + e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
return "-13";
}
if (returnResponse) {
BufferedReader buffReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
String line = null;
try {
line = buffReader.readLine();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return "-1";
}
while (line != null) {
response.append(line);
response.append('\n');
try {
line = buffReader.readLine();
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(" IOException: " + e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
return "-14";
}
}
try {
buffReader.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return "-15";
}
System.out.println("Response: " + response.toString());
return response.toString();
}
return "0";
}

Use HttpClient. Documentation for performing downloads with HTTP AUTH is here. Documentation for getting a string result is here. Then, parse your string (ideally using SAX, though, not DOM).

DefaultHttpClient deprecated
addHeader must have 2 parameters
Updated code block using HttpClient 4.5.2
HttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("https://test.com/abc.xyz");
httpGet.addHeader("Authorization", BasicScheme.authenticate(new UsernamePasswordCredentials("login", "password"), "UTF-8"));
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
HttpEntity responseEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();

As Gabe Rogan mentioned, "The method authenticate from BasicScheme has been deprecated".
An alternative way to do this,
HttpRequestBase hrb = new HttpGet(req.getUrl()); // should be your URL
UsernamePasswordCredentials Credential= new UsernamePasswordCredentials("id", "password");
Header header = new BasicScheme(StandardCharsets.UTF_8).authenticate(Credential, hrb, null);
hrb.addHeader(header);