Java tutorial
package asu.edu.msse.gpeddabu.moviedescriptions; /** * Created by Giridhar on 3/31/2016. * Copyright 2016 Giridhar Reddy Peddabuttaiahgari, * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * However this can be used for course evaluation by the instructor, * TAs, graders and University. * @author Giridhar Reddy Peddabuttaiahgari gpeddabu@asu.edu * @version 3/31/2016 */ import android.os.AsyncTask; import org.json.JSONObject; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; public class AsyncLibraryConnect extends AsyncTask<MethodInformation, Integer, MethodInformation> { @Override protected MethodInformation doInBackground(MethodInformation... aRequest) { try { String result = downloadUrl(aRequest[0].urlString); aRequest[0].resultAsJson = result; } catch (MalformedURLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return aRequest[0]; } @Override protected void onPostExecute(MethodInformation methodInformation) { try { if (methodInformation.resultAsJson != "{}") { JSONObject movie = new JSONObject(methodInformation.resultAsJson); if (movie.getString("Response").equals("True")) { methodInformation.searchActivity.fillDataFromSearchResult(movie); } } } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } private String downloadUrl(String myurl) throws IOException { String response = "{}"; InputStream is = null; try { URL url = new URL(myurl); HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); conn.setRequestMethod("GET"); // Starts the query conn.connect(); int responseCode = conn.getResponseCode(); is = conn.getInputStream(); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is)); String line = ""; StringBuilder responseOutput = new StringBuilder(); while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { responseOutput.append(line); } br.close(); response = responseOutput.toString(); // Makes sure that the InputStream is closed after the app is // finished using it. } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { if (is != null) { is.close(); } } return response; } }