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I cant insert data from a java program to laravel app via api

I am new to laravel and I would like to save data to my online server via laravel api from a java program but I am getting errors.
this is my route on api.php:
Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/user', function (Request $request) {
return $request->user();
});
Route::post('hooks','ApiTestController#store');
my ApiTestController: its just handles POST request then saves to the table.
public function store(Request $request)
{
$postdata = json_decode($request->input('post_data'), true);
$datas = $postdata['header'];
$data = $datas[0];
$testH = new TestH();
$testH->test_date = $data['test_date'];
$testH->expiration = $data['test_date'];
$testH->source = $data['source'];
$testH->save();
return $testH;
}
and my java code :
try {
//local development server url
URL url = new URL("http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/hooks");
URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
// activate the output
con.setDoOutput(true);
PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(con.getOutputStream());
//create the JSON String
String json = null;
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
JSONWriter wr = new JSONWriter(sw);
try {
wr.object().key("header").array();
wr.object();
wr.key("test_date").value(new Date());
wr.key("source").value("TEST");
wr.key("expiration").value(new Date());
wr.endObject();
wr.endArray().endObject();
json = sw.toString();
System.out.println(json);
} catch (JSONException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(WebConnectSample.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
// send to laravel server
ps.print("post_data="+json);
HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) con;
InputStream is;
if (httpConn.getResponseCode() >= 419) {
is = httpConn.getErrorStream();
} else {
is = httpConn.getInputStream();
}
// read the server reply
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
String line = null;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
// close the print stream
}
ps.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
the thing is when I dont save via $testH->save() everything works fine. but if I include it java returns with the following error:
Type error: Argument 1 passed to Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\ThrottleRequests::addHeaders() must be an instance of Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response, string given, called in C:\Users\relixusdev\Documents\WebProjects\tcmsite\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\ThrottleRequests.php on line 61
any idea what part causes the error? does it have to do with authentication? i just want to be able to save to the online database via my java program.

Try using Route group with prefix as below
Route::group(['prefix' => 'api'], function() {
Route::post('hooks','ApiTestController#store');
});

if anyone comes here having the same problem, i found out that the problem is that I dont have the created_at and updated_at column at my table. I didn't realized its a requirement for laravel. silly me.

Slow HTTPURLConnection in Android

I use the following code
private String resultGET(String addr)
{
try
{
String result = "";
HttpURLConnection conn = null;
addr = (isFull)?addr:Statics.fullURL(addr);
try
{
URL url = new URL(addr);
conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
conn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", Statics.USER_AGENT);
InputStream ips = conn.getInputStream();
int responseCode = conn.getResponseCode();
if (200 != responseCode)
{
Feedback.setError("GET error: " + responseCode + " on " + addr);
return "";
}
BufferedReader bufr = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(ips));
String line;
while ((line = bufr.readLine()) != null) result += line;
bufr.close();
} finally{if (null != conn) conn.disconnect();}
return result;
} catch(Exception e)
{
Feedback.setError("get fault " + Utils.stackTrace(e));
return "";
}
}
Feedback is simply a Java class I use internally to handle all messages that I send back to the Android app front end (this is a hybrid app and the code above is part of a plugin I have written for the app).
I find that when any significant amount of data are returned the resultGETcall gets excruciatingly slow. For instance, a 43Kb Javascript file - which I later use to run JS code via Duktape takes the best part of 1 minute to download and save.
I am still quite a newbie when it comes to Java so I imagine that I am doing something wrong here which is causing the issue. I'd be most obliged to anyone who might be able to put me on the right track.
A while later...
I have now tested the issue on an Android 6 device instead of my default Android 4.4.2 device. On the Android 6 the download + file save speed comes in at a decent 5 seconds. On Android 4.4.2 it is over 40s. Are there any known issues with HTTPURLConnection on earlier versions of Android? I

String result = "";
The += operator on a String is slow. If you have a lot of lines use a StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); and use its append() method to sb.append(line + " \n");
At the end you can use result = sb.toString();

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Already connected

I'm trying to invoke a webservice call and get a response. When I tried it first time it worked perfectly and printed the response. But after that one run, how many ever times I run it, i throws me
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Already connected
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.setRequestProperty(Unknown Source)
at SOAPClient4XG.main(SOAPClient4XG.java:72)
I have tried various solutions provided for similar problem (like connect / disconnect) but nothing seems to make it work. I understand that it tries to perform an operation on already existing connection, but not sure how to fix. I'm fairly new to all this and I need help.
Below is my code
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class SOAPClient4XG
{
private static HttpURLConnection httpConn;
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String SOAPUrl = args[0];
String xmlFile2Send = args[1];*/
String SOAPUrl = "http://10.153.219.88:8011/celg-svcs-soap/business/ApplicantEligibility";
String xmlFile2Send =
"C:\\Users\\dkrishnamoorthy\\workspace\\SOAPUI_Automation\\src\\ApplicantElligibilty.xml";
String SOAPAction = "";
if (args.length > 2)
SOAPAction = args[2];
// Create the connection where we're going to send the file.
URL url = new URL(SOAPUrl);
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
//URLConnection connection = new URLConnection(url);
httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) connection;
if(httpConn.getResponseCode()==500)
{
System.out.println("Error Stream for 500 : "+httpConn.getErrorStream());
}
// Open the input file. After we copy it to a byte array, we can see
// how big it is so that we can set the HTTP Cotent-Length
// property. (See complete e-mail below for more on this.)
FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(xmlFile2Send);
ByteArrayOutputStream bout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
// Copy the SOAP file to the open connection.
copy(fin,bout);
fin.close();
byte[] b = bout.toByteArray();
// Set the appropriate HTTP parameters.
httpConn.setRequestProperty( "Content-Length",
String.valueOf( b.length ) );
httpConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","text/xml; charset=utf-8");
httpConn.setRequestProperty("SOAPAction",SOAPAction);
httpConn.setRequestMethod( "POST" );
httpConn.setDoOutput(true);
httpConn.setDoInput(true);
// httpConn.connect();
// Everything's set up; send the XML that was read in to b.
OutputStream out = httpConn.getOutputStream();
out.write( b );
out.close();
// Read the response and write it to standard out.
InputStreamReader isr =
new InputStreamReader(httpConn.getInputStream());
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(isr);
String inputLine;
System.out.println("Printing the Response ");
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
System.out.println(inputLine);
in.close();
}
public static void copy(InputStream in, OutputStream out)
throws IOException {
synchronized (in) {
synchronized (out) {
byte[] buffer = new byte[256];
while (true) {
int bytesRead = in.read(buffer);
if (bytesRead == -1) break;
out.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
}
}
}
}
}

If you use eclipse version just restart it. I met the same issue and I sorted out by doing that .

I solved this because I had a forgotten watch for connection.getResponseCode() in my debugging interface in NetBeans. Hope it might help others making the same mistake.
If you have any watch relative to the response value of the request, such as getResponseCode(), getResponseMessage(), getInputStream() or even just connect(), you will get this error in debugging mode.
All of the previous methods implicitly call connect() and fire the request. So when you reach setDoOutput, the connection is already made.

Read Data From Http Response rarely throws BindException: Address already in use

I use following code to read data form http request.
In general cases it works good, but some time "httpURLConnection.getResponseCode()" throws java.net.BindException: Address already in use: connect
............
URL url = new URL( strUrl );
httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
int responseCode = httpURLConnection.getResponseCode();
char charData[] = new char[HTTP_READ_BLOCK_SIZE];
isrData = new InputStreamReader( httpURLConnection.getInputStream(), strCharset );
int iSize = isrData.read( charData, 0, HTTP_READ_BLOCK_SIZE );
while( iSize > 0 ){
sbData.append( charData, 0, iSize );
iSize = isrData.read( charData, 0, HTTP_READ_BLOCK_SIZE );
}
.................
finally{
try{
if( null != isrData ){
isrData.close();
isrData = null;
}
if( null != httpURLConnection ){
httpURLConnection.disconnect();
httpURLConnection = null;
}
strData = sbData.toString();
}
catch( Exception e2 ){
}
The code running on Java 1.6, Tomcat 6.
Thank you

Get rid of the disconnect() and close the Reader instead. You are running out of local ports, and using disconnect() disables HTTP connection pooling which is the solution to that.

You need to close() the Reader after completely reading the stream. This will free up underlying resources (sockets, etc) for future reuse. Otherwise the system will run out of resources.
The basic Java IO idiom for your case is the following:
Reader reader = null;
try {
reader = new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream(), charset);
// ...
} finally {
if (reader != null) try { reader.close(); } catch (IOException logOrIgnore) {}
}
See also:
Java IO tutorial
How to use URLConnection?

HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode() returns -1 on second invocation

I seem to be running into a peculiar problem on Android 1.5 when a library I'm using (signpost 1.1-SNAPSHOT), makes two consecutive connections to a remote server. The second connection always fails with a HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode() of -1
Here's a testcase that exposes the problem:
// BROKEN
public void testDefaultOAuthConsumerAndroidBug() throws Exception {
for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i) {
final HttpURLConnection c = (HttpURLConnection) new URL("https://api.tripit.com/oauth/request_token").openConnection();
final DefaultOAuthConsumer consumer = new DefaultOAuthConsumer(api_key, api_secret, SignatureMethod.HMAC_SHA1);
consumer.sign(c); // This line...
final InputStream is = c.getInputStream();
while( is.read() >= 0 ) ; // ... in combination with this line causes responseCode -1 for i==1 when using api.tripit.com but not mail.google.com
assertTrue(c.getResponseCode() > 0);
}
}
Basically, if I sign the request and then consume the entire input stream, the next request will fail with a resultcode of -1. The failure doesn't seem to happen if I just read one character from the input stream.
Note that this doesn't happen for any url -- just specific urls such as the one above.
Also, if I switch to using HttpClient instead of HttpURLConnection, everything works fine:
// WORKS
public void testCommonsHttpOAuthConsumerAndroidBug() throws Exception {
for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i) {
final HttpGet c = new HttpGet("https://api.tripit.com/oauth/request_token");
final CommonsHttpOAuthConsumer consumer = new CommonsHttpOAuthConsumer(api_key, api_secret, SignatureMethod.HMAC_SHA1);
consumer.sign(c);
final HttpResponse response = new DefaultHttpClient().execute(c);
final InputStream is = response.getEntity().getContent();
while( is.read() >= 0 ) ;
assertTrue( response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == 200);
}
}
I've found references to what seems to be a similar problem elsewhere, but so far no solutions. If they're truly the same problem, then the problem probably isn't with signpost since the other references make no reference to it.
Any ideas?

Try set this property to see if it helps,
http.keepAlive=false
I saw similar problems when server response is not understood by UrlConnection and client/server gets out of sync.
If this solves your problem, you have to get a HTTP trace to see exactly what's special about the response.
EDIT: This change just confirms my suspicion. It doesn't solve your problem. It just hides the symptom.
If the response from first request is 200, we need a trace. I normally use Ethereal/Wireshark to get the TCP trace.
If your first response is not 200, I do see a problem in your code. With OAuth, the error response (401) actually returns data, which includes ProblemAdvice, Signature Base String etc to help you debug. You need to read everything from error stream. Otherwise, it's going to confuse next connection and that's the cause of -1. Following example shows you how to handle errors correctly,
public static String get(String url) throws IOException {
ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
URLConnection conn=null;
byte[] buf = new byte[4096];
try {
URL a = new URL(url);
conn = a.openConnection();
InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
int ret = 0;
while ((ret = is.read(buf)) > 0) {
os.write(buf, 0, ret);
}
// close the inputstream
is.close();
return new String(os.toByteArray());
} catch (IOException e) {
try {
int respCode = ((HttpURLConnection)conn).getResponseCode();
InputStream es = ((HttpURLConnection)conn).getErrorStream();
int ret = 0;
// read the response body
while ((ret = es.read(buf)) > 0) {
os.write(buf, 0, ret);
}
// close the errorstream
es.close();
return "Error response " + respCode + ": " +
new String(os.toByteArray());
} catch(IOException ex) {
throw ex;
}
}
}

I've encountered the same problem when I did not read in all the data from the InputStream before closing it and opening a second connection. It was also fixed either with System.setProperty("http.keepAlive", "false"); or simply just looping until I've read the rest of the InputStream.
Not completely related to your issue, but hope this helps anyone else with a similar problem.

Google provided an elegant workaround since it's only happening prior to Froyo:
private void disableConnectionReuseIfNecessary() {
// HTTP connection reuse which was buggy pre-froyo
if (Integer.parseInt(Build.VERSION.SDK) < Build.VERSION_CODES.FROYO) {
System.setProperty("http.keepAlive", "false");
}
}
Cf. http://android-developers.blogspot.ca/2011/09/androids-http-clients.html

Or, you can set HTTP header in the connection (HttpUrlConnection):
conn.setRequestProperty("Connection", "close");

Can you verify that the connection is not getting closed before you finish reading the response? Maybe HttpClient parses the response code right away, and saves it for future queries, however HttpURLConnection could be returning -1 once the connection is closed?