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Return String from Apache Http POST Request (Android)

I'm attempting to get a json string back from an HTTP post request in my andorid app. Using a solution from this post, code also shown here.
public void post(String completeUrl, String body) {
HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(completeUrl);
httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
try {
StringEntity stringEntity = new StringEntity(body);
httpPost.getRequestLine();
httpPost.setEntity(stringEntity);
httpClient.execute(httpPost);
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
I call post from inside of an Async Task (using to handle network access on a separate thread).
String result;
result = post("https://StringURLGoesHere.com/", "jsonStringBodyGoesHere");
According to the documentation for HttpClient class, to handle the response, I need to add a second parameter ResponseHandler to the HttpClient.execute() method.
public interface ResponseHandler<T> {
T handleResponse(HttpResponse var1) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException;
}
I did as such:
public String post(String completeUrl, String body) {
HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(completeUrl);
httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
try {
StringEntity stringEntity = new StringEntity(body);
httpPost.getRequestLine();
httpPost.setEntity(stringEntity);
ResponseHandler<String> reply = new ResponseHandler<String>() {
#Override
public String handleResponse(HttpResponse httpResponse) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
return httpResponse.toString();
}
};
return httpClient.execute(httpPost,reply);
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
I show the string in a textview on my application. It reads:
org.apache.http.message.BasicHttpResponse#1446ef0c
or
org.apache.http.message.BasicHttpResponse#b83bd3d
or
org.apache.http.message.BasicHttpResponse#1c4c9e1d
and so on.
Why am I getting this return as a string? What should change in order to get the string of the json object returning after the post?

Try like below to capture HttpRepose to see your response;
HttpClient request = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
HttpGet get = new HttpGet(url);
get.setHeader( "Authorization", token);
HttpResponse response = null;
try {
response = request.execute( get );
} catch ( ClientProtocolException e ) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch ( IOException e ) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( response.getEntity().getContent() ) );
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
String line = "";
while ( (line = rd.readLine()) != null ) {
result.append( line );
}
System.out.println( response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() );
System.out.println( result.toString() );

You could do like this:
httpPost.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpPost);
String responseString = new BasicResponseHandler().handleResponse(response);
return responseString; //this is your want

How to send cookies with AsyncTask?

I have a web server, where i log in in my android Application, after that loging i recive as an XML the user who logged with a field named token.
This token is used to keep open the session during next calls to webService, and it works sendidnt the token as a cookie named "acrsession" but it seems not working because everytime i tried to check if im logged in (using a get call named currentUser) it returns me forbidden, so i think it isnt working good.
Here is my AsyncTask class who do the calls to server.
public String getFileName() {
return FileName;
}
public void setFileName(String fileName) {
FileName = fileName;
}
private String Response;
private URI uriInfo;
private String FileName;
public WebServiceTask(int taskType, Context mContext, String processMessage,String token) {
this.taskType = taskType;
this.mContext = mContext;
this.processMessage = processMessage;
this.token=token;
}
public void addNameValuePair(String name, String value) {
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair(name, value));
}
public void showProgressDialog() {
pDlg = new ProgressDialog(mContext);
pDlg.setMessage(processMessage);
pDlg.setProgressDrawable(mContext.getWallpaper());
pDlg.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER);
pDlg.setCancelable(false);
pDlg.show();
}
#Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
//hideKeyboard();
showProgressDialog();
}
protected String doInBackground(String... urls) {
String url = urls[0];
String result = "";
HttpResponse response = doResponse(url);
if (response == null) {
return result;
} else {
try {
result = inputStreamToString(response.getEntity().getContent());
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
Log.e(TAG, e.getLocalizedMessage(), e);
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e(TAG, e.getLocalizedMessage(), e);
}
}
return result;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String response) {
this.Response=response;
pDlg.dismiss();
}
// Establish connection and socket (data retrieval) timeouts
private HttpParams getHttpParams() {
HttpParams htpp = new BasicHttpParams();
HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(htpp, CONN_TIMEOUT);
HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(htpp, SOCKET_TIMEOUT);
return htpp;
}
private HttpResponse doResponse(String url) {
// Use our connection and data timeouts as parameters for our
// DefaultHttpClient
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(getHttpParams());
int responseCode=0;
// Create a local instance of cookie store
//CookieStore cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();
// Create local HTTP context
//HttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext();
// Bind custom cookie store to the local context
//localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, cookieStore);
//CookieManager cookieManager= CookieManager.getInstance();
this.getLocalContext();
this.cookieStore.addCookie(new BasicClientCookie("acrsession", this.token));
HttpResponse response = null;
try {
switch (taskType) {
case POST_TASK:
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
// Add parameters
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));
int executeCount = 0;
do
{
pDlg.setMessage("Logging in.. ("+(executeCount+1)+"/5)");
// Execute HTTP Post Request
executeCount++;
response = httpclient.execute(httppost,localContext);
responseCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
// If you want to see the response code, you can Log it
// out here by calling:
// Log.d("256 Design", "statusCode: " + responseCode)
} while (executeCount < 5 && responseCode == 408);
uriInfo = httppost.getURI();
break;
case GET_TASK:
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(url);
response = httpclient.execute(httpget,localContext);
responseCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
httpget.getRequestLine();
uriInfo = httpget.getURI();
break;
case PUT_TASK:
HttpPut httpput = new HttpPut(url);
File file = new File(this.FileName);
InputStreamEntity reqEntity = new InputStreamEntity(new FileInputStream(file), -1);
reqEntity.setContentType("binary/octet-stream");
reqEntity.setChunked(true); // Send in multiple parts if needed
httpput.setEntity(reqEntity);
response = httpclient.execute(httpput,localContext);
responseCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
httpput.getRequestLine();
uriInfo = httpput.getURI();
break;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e(TAG, e.getLocalizedMessage(), e);
}
return response;
}
private String inputStreamToString(InputStream is) {
String line = "";
StringBuilder total = new StringBuilder();
// Wrap a BufferedReader around the InputStream
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
try {
// Read response until the end
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
total.append(line);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e(TAG, e.getLocalizedMessage(), e);
}
// Return full string
this.Response=total.toString();
return total.toString();
}
public String getResponse(){
return this.Response;
}
public HttpContext getLocalContext()
{
if (localContext == null)
{
localContext = new BasicHttpContext();
cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();
localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_ORIGIN, cookieStore);
localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_SPEC, cookieStore);
localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIESPEC_REGISTRY, cookieStore);
localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, cookieStore);// to make sure that cookies provided by the server can be reused
}
return localContext;
}
Plesae tell me what im doing bad.
Thanks in advance.

Well, finally i found the solution, everything was ok but i fortgot to set cookie Domain and path, so onced i putted it it worked.
Now cookie creation looks like this:
this.localContext=this.getLocalContext();
BasicClientCookie cookie = new BasicClientCookie("acrsession", this.token);
cookie.setDomain(this.Domain);
cookie.setPath(this.path);
this.cookieStore.addCookie(cookie);
localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, this.cookieStore);
Hope it will help someone else.

Retrieve get response with Android

I have an app android that in an AsyncTask make 2 get request to a servlet.
I want to retrieve a String that contains a simple response.
This is my AsyncTask:
protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
return uploadFile();
}
#SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
private String uploadFile() {
String responseString = null;
String responseStr = null;
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(Config.FILE_UPLOAD_URL);
try {
AndroidMultiPartEntity entity = new AndroidMultiPartEntity(
new ProgressListener() {
#Override
public void transferred(long num) {
publishProgress((int) ((num / (float) totalSize) * 100));
}
});
File sourceFile = new File(filePath);
// Adding file data to http body
entity.addPart("image", new FileBody(sourceFile));
totalSize = entity.getContentLength();
httppost.setEntity(entity);
// Making server call
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
HttpEntity r_entity = response.getEntity();
int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
if (statusCode == 200) {
// Server response
responseString = EntityUtils.toString(r_entity);
try {
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
URI getURL = new URI("http://192.168.1.101:8080/MusaServlet?collection="+collection+"&name="+filename);
Log.i("QUERY",getURL.getQuery());
HttpGet get = new HttpGet(getURL);
HttpResponse responseGet = client.execute(get);
HttpEntity resEntityGet = responseGet.getEntity();
if (resEntityGet != null) {
Log.i("GET RESPONSE",EntityUtils.toString(resEntityGet));
}
responseStr = EntityUtils.toString(responseGet.getEntity());
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
} else {
responseString = "Error occurred! Http Status Code: "
+ statusCode;
}
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
responseString = e.toString();
} catch (IOException e) {
responseString = e.toString();
}
return responseStr;
}
Instead the servlet code is:
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("HELLO STUPID APP!");
However the dialog showed by app is empty! No words!
What's the problem guys?
Thank's

At first check your GET request status code as
responseGet.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
If is giving number 200 then GET is successfull.
Now if is 200 then you will get the response what you have sent by following code
HttpEntity resEntityGet = responseGet.getEntity();
and then
String result;
if(resEntityGet !=null ){
result= EntityUtils.toString(resEntityGet);
}
Now the most important thing is once you perform responseGet.getEntity() the data of GET response will be passed to the variable.. you assign.. and later on calling responseGet.getEntity() will always return empty...
That may be the reason you are getting empty response in your dialog

EDIT:
Ok I have modified my code and playing with logcat I'm sure that the responseCode is not 200.
What is the problem now? -.-"

HTTP POST method returning status code 404

When I execute an API through following method, I always get 404 as response code.
private void execute() throws IllegalStateException, IOException, NoSuchAlgorithmException {
Map<String, String> comment = new HashMap<String, String>();
comment.put("accounts-groups", "customers/enterprise");
comment.put("companyType", "customer");
comment.put("companyName", "Test");
String json = new GsonBuilder().create().toJson(comment, Map.class);
Log.i(TAG, "json : "+json);
HttpResponse response = makeRequest(URL, json);
/*Checking response */
if(response != null) {
InputStream inputStream = response.getEntity().getContent(); //Get the data in the entity
int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
Log.i(TAG, "statusCode : "+statusCode);
String result;
// convert inputstream to string
if(inputStream != null)
result = convertStreamToString(inputStream);
else
result = "Did not work!";
Log.i(TAG, "result : "+result);
}
}
private HttpResponse makeRequest(String uri, String json) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException {
Log.i(TAG, "uri : "+uri);
try {
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(uri);
httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity(json, HTTP.UTF_8));
long timestamp = System.currentTimeMillis();
String signatureKey = PRIVATE_KEY + timestamp;
byte[] bytesOfMessage = signatureKey.getBytes(HTTP.UTF_8);
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
byte[] thedigest = md.digest(bytesOfMessage);
char[] signature = Hex.encodeHex(thedigest);
String finalSignature = String.valueOf(signature);
Log.i(TAG, "finalSignature : "+finalSignature);
httpPost.setHeader("Timestamp", ""+timestamp);
httpPost.setHeader("Api_token", API_TOKEN);
httpPost.setHeader("Signature" , finalSignature);
httpPost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
httpPost.setHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json");
return new DefaultHttpClient().execute(httpPost);
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
I am not getting where am I going wrong. Can anybody please help me out?

from wiki:
The 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code
indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server,
but the server could not find what was requested.
so, your code is OK, but server cannot find resource you are looking for. Double check if your url is correct.
how to pass request through fiddler proxy for debugging purposes:
HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
// ....
HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost("192.168.1.12", 8888); // IP to your PC with fiddler proxy
params.setParameter(ConnRoutePNames.DEFAULT_PROXY, proxy);
// use params as a second parameter to: following constructor:
// public DefaultHttpClient (ClientConnectionManager conman, HttpParams params)

I was getting 404 for POST requests because mod_headers module of Apache 2 server was not enabled. If that happens you can enable it with:
sudo a2enmod headers
and then restart apache:
sudo service apache2 restart

Retrieve the http code of the response in java

I have the following code for make a post to an url an retrieve the response as a String. But I'd like to get also the HTTP response code (404,503, etc). Where can I recover it?
I've tried with the methods offered by the HttpReponse class but didn't find it.
Thanks
public static String post(String url, List<BasicNameValuePair> postvalues) {
try {
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
if ((postvalues == null)) {
postvalues = new ArrayList<BasicNameValuePair>();
}
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(postvalues, "UTF-8"));
// Execute HTTP Post Request
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
return requestToString(response);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
}
private static String requestToString(HttpResponse response) {
String result = "";
try {
InputStream in = response.getEntity().getContent();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
str.append(line + "\n");
}
in.close();
result = str.toString();
} catch (Exception ex) {
result = "Error";
}
return result;
}

You can modify your code like this:
//...
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
if(response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK){
//edit: there is already function for this
return EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), "UTF-8");
} else {
//Houston we have a problem
//we should do something with bad http status
return null;
}
EDIT: just one more thing ...
instead of requestToString(..); you can use EntityUtils.toString(..);

Have you tried this?
// Execute HTTP Post Request
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();

Have you tried the following?
response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode()