Android Http Get fetchData(String url)

Description

fetch Data

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String fetchData(String url) throws Exception 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.params.BasicHttpParams;

public class Main {
    public static String fetchData(String url) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("Fetching data from:");
        System.out.println(url);/*from  ww  w  .j  a v a  2s. c o m*/
        InputStream inputStream = null;
        String result = "";
        Exception error = null;

        try {
            DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(
                    new BasicHttpParams());
            HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(new URL(url).toURI());
            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
            inputStream = entity.getContent();
            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8"), 8);
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

            String line = null;
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                sb.append(line + "\n");
            }
            result = sb.toString();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            error = e;
        } finally {
            try {
                if (inputStream != null)
                    inputStream.close();
            } catch (Exception squish) {
                //
            }
        }

        if (error != null) {
            throw error;
        }

        return result;
    }
}

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2. getStringResponseData(HttpResponse httpResponse)
3. getHttpClient()
4. maybeCreateHttpClient()
5. sendGetRequest(String path)