As a part of my ioPush Android
application, I needed to send a POST request to a secure server. I found some
examples over the Internet but nothing parametric.
Here is my code, with optional basic HTTP authentication and headers.
Packages importation
// Required for httpPost() method
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import android.util.Base64;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
// Required for JSON handling
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
POST request
private HttpResultHelper httpPost(String urlStr, String user, String password, String data, ArrayList<String[]> headers, int timeOut) throws IOException
{
// Set url
URL url = new URL(urlStr);
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
// If secure connection
if (urlStr.startsWith("https")) {
try {
SSLContext sc;
sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
sc.init(null, null, new java.security.SecureRandom());
((HttpsURLConnection)conn).setSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.d(TAG, "Failed to construct SSL object", e);
}
}
// Use this if you need basic authentication
if ((user != null) && (password != null)) {
String userPass = user + ":" + password;
String basicAuth = "Basic " + Base64.encodeToString(userPass.getBytes(), Base64.DEFAULT);
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", basicAuth);
}
// Set Timeout and method
conn.setReadTimeout(timeOut);
conn.setConnectTimeout(timeOut);
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setDoOutput(true);
if (headers != null) {
for (int i = 0; i < headers.size(); i++) {
conn.setRequestProperty(headers.get(i)[0], headers.get(i)[1]);
}
}
if (data != null) {
conn.setFixedLengthStreamingMode(data.getBytes().length);
OutputStream os = conn.getOutputStream();
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(
new OutputStreamWriter(os, "UTF-8"));
writer.write(data);
writer.flush();
writer.close();
os.close();
}
InputStream inputStream = null;
try
{
inputStream = conn.getInputStream();
}
catch(IOException exception)
{
inputStream = conn.getErrorStream();
}
HttpResultHelper result = new HttpResultHelper();
result.setStatusCode(conn.getResponseCode());
result.setResponse(inputStream);
return result;
}
How to call it
URL encoded with basic authentication
HttpResultHelper httpResult = httpPost("https://ioPush.net/app/api/getAuthToken", "**@ioPush.net", "**", null, null, 7000);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(httpResult.getResponse()));
String result = "";
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
result += inputLine;
}
How to call it
JSON data with custom headers
String result = "";
String inputLine;
// JSON data
JSONObject data = new JSONObject();
try {
data.put("key1", "param1");
data.put("key2", param2);
data.put("key3", "param3");
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
// Headers
ArrayList<String[]> headers = new ArrayList<>();
headers.add(new String[]{"custom-header", "custom value"});
headers.add(new String[]{"Content-Type", "application/json"});
httpResult = httpPost("https://url.ext/page", null, null, data.toString(), headers, 7000);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(httpResult.getResponse()));
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
result += inputLine;
}
HttpResultHelpers
Mandatory class to return status code
and response
.
import java.io.InputStream;
public class HttpResultHelper {
private int statusCode;
private InputStream response;
public HttpResultHelper() {
}
public int getStatusCode() {
return statusCode;
}
public void setStatusCode(int statusCode) {
this.statusCode = statusCode;
}
public InputStream getResponse() {
return response;
}
public void setResponse(InputStream response) {
this.response = response;
}
}
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