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/*** Copyright (c) 2013-2015 CommonsWare, LLC 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. From _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ https://commonsware.com/Android */ package com.commonsware.android.okhttp; import android.util.Log; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.Reader; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; import com.google.gson.Gson; import com.squareup.okhttp.OkHttpClient; import com.squareup.okhttp.Request; import com.squareup.okhttp.Response; import de.greenrobot.event.EventBus; class LoadThread extends Thread { static final String SO_URL = "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/questions?" + "order=desc&sort=creation&site=stackoverflow&tagged=android"; @Override public void run() { try { OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient(); Request request = new Request.Builder().url(SO_URL).build(); Response response = client.newCall(request).execute(); if (response.isSuccessful()) { Reader in = response.body().charStream(); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(in); SOQuestions questions = new Gson().fromJson(reader, SOQuestions.class); reader.close(); EventBus.getDefault().post(new QuestionsLoadedEvent(questions)); } else { Log.e(getClass().getSimpleName(), response.toString()); } } catch (Exception e) { Log.e(getClass().getSimpleName(), "Exception parsing JSON", e); } } }