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0 This article shows a very simple, straightforward example of making an HTTP POST call to a url (http://localhost:8080/movieevents) and sending a JSON payload to that URL.
The REST service invoked in this example is the service published from Java EE as described in this article.
package nl.amis.cinema.view;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
public class CinemaEventGenerator {
/*
* based on https://technology.amis.nl/2015/05/12/make-http-post-request-from-java-se-no-frills-no-libraries-just-plain-java/
*/
private static final String USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0";
private static final String targeturl = "http://localhost:7101//CinemaMonitor/resources/cinemaevent";
public static void sendJson(String json) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
//method call for generating json
// requestJson = generateJSON();
URL myurl = new URL(targeturl);
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection)myurl.openConnection();
con.setDoOutput(true);
con.setDoInput(true);
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json;");
con.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json,text/plain");
con.setRequestProperty("Method", "POST");
OutputStream os = con.getOutputStream();
os.write(json.toString().getBytes("UTF-8"));
os.close();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
int HttpResult =con.getResponseCode();
if(HttpResult ==HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK){
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream(),"utf-8"));
String line = null;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
br.close();
System.out.println(""+sb.toString());
}else{
System.out.println(con.getResponseCode());
System.out.println(con.getResponseMessage());
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
CinemaEventGenerator.sendJson("{\"room\":\"4\" , \"occupation\":\"5\"}");
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
In this second example, the service that is being called here is exposed by a PL/SQL procedure as described in this recent article). This example does not use any additional libraries – just the standard Java SE libraries.
package nl.amis.rest;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.Map;
public class CinemaEventRouter {
/*
* Thanks to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4205980/java-sending-http-parameters-via-post-method-easily?rq=1
*/
private static final String USER_AGENT = “Mozilla/5.0”;
private static final String targeturl = “http://localhost:8080/api/movieevents”;
public static void sendPost(String json) {
try {
Map
params.put(“p_json_payload”, json);
StringBuilder postData = new StringBuilder();
for (Map.Entry
if (postData.length() != 0)
postData.append(‘&’);
postData.append(URLEncoder.encode(param.getKey(), “UTF-8”));
postData.append(‘=’);
postData.append(URLEncoder.encode(String.valueOf(param.getValue()), “UTF-8”));
}
byte[] postDataBytes = postData.toString().getBytes(“UTF-8”);
URL url = new URL(targeturl);
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod(“POST”);
conn.setRequestProperty(“Content-Type”, “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”);
conn.setRequestProperty(“Content-Length”, String.valueOf(postDataBytes.length));
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.getOutputStream().write(postDataBytes);
Reader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream(), “UTF-8”));
for (int c; (c = in.read()) >= 0; System.out.print((char) c))
;
}
catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(“Call to “+targeturl+” failed.”);
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
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con.setRequestProperty(“Content-Type”, “application/json;”); this line should be corrected as con.setRequestProperty(“Content-Type”, “application/json”); There’s an additional “;” after “application/json”