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/** * Copyright 2015 Aylien, Inc. All Rights Reserved. * * 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 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package com.aylien.textapi; import org.json.JSONObject; import java.io.*; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLEncoder; import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; public class HttpSender { private static final String USER_AGENT = "Aylien Text API Java"; private Map<String, List<String>> responseHeaders; public String post(String url, Map<String, String> parameters, Map<String, String> headers) throws IOException, TextAPIException { try { HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection(); for (Map.Entry<String, String> header : headers.entrySet()) { connection.setRequestProperty(header.getKey(), header.getValue()); } connection.setDoOutput(true); connection.setRequestMethod("POST"); connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", USER_AGENT); StringBuilder payload = new StringBuilder(); for (Map.Entry<String, String> e : parameters.entrySet()) { if (payload.length() > 0) { payload.append('&'); } payload.append(URLEncoder.encode(e.getKey(), "UTF-8")).append('=') .append(URLEncoder.encode(e.getValue(), "UTF-8")); } OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream()); writer.write(payload.toString()); writer.close(); responseHeaders = connection.getHeaderFields(); InputStream inputStream = connection.getResponseCode() == 200 ? connection.getInputStream() : connection.getErrorStream(); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream)); StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder(); String line; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { response.append(line); } reader.close(); if (connection.getResponseCode() >= 300) { extractTextAPIError(response.toString()); } return response.toString(); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { throw new IOException(e); } } public Map<String, List<String>> getLastResponseHeaders() { return responseHeaders; } void extractTextAPIError(String response) throws TextAPIException { try { JSONObject result = new JSONObject(response); if (result.has("error")) { throw new TextAPIException(result.getString("error")); } } catch (org.json.JSONException e) { throw new TextAPIException(response); } } }