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package com.jigarmjoshi.service; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.URLEncoder; import java.util.ArrayList; import org.apache.http.HttpEntity; import org.apache.http.HttpResponse; import org.apache.http.NameValuePair; import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException; import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient; import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest; import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient; import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair; import org.apache.http.params.CoreConnectionPNames; import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP; import com.jigarmjoshi.utils.Utility; import android.util.Log; /** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this * work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF * licenses this file to you 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. * * @author jigar.joshi * */ public class RestService { public static enum RequestMethod { POST, GET } private ArrayList<NameValuePair> params; private ArrayList<NameValuePair> headers; private String url; private int responseCode; private String message; private String response; public String getResponse() { return response; } public String getErrorMessage() { return message; } public int getResponseCode() { return responseCode; } public RestService(String url) { this.url = url; params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(); headers = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(); } public void addParam(String name, String value) { params.add(new BasicNameValuePair(name, Utility.encode(value))); } public void addHeader(String name, String value) { headers.add(new BasicNameValuePair(name, value)); } public void execute(RequestMethod method) throws Exception { switch (method) { case GET: { // add parameters String combinedParams = ""; if (!params.isEmpty()) { combinedParams += "?"; for (NameValuePair p : params) { String paramString = p.getName() + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(p.getValue()); if (combinedParams.length() > 1) { combinedParams += "&" + paramString; } else { combinedParams += paramString; } } } HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url + combinedParams); // add headers for (NameValuePair h : headers) { request.addHeader(h.getName(), h.getValue()); } executeRequest(request, url); break; } case POST: { HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url); // add headers for (NameValuePair h : headers) { request.addHeader(h.getName(), h.getValue()); } if (!params.isEmpty()) { request.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params, HTTP.UTF_8)); } executeRequest(request, url); break; } } } private void executeRequest(HttpUriRequest request, String url) { HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(); // no response within 120 seconds client.getParams().setParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.SO_TIMEOUT, 120 * 1000); // this one causes a timeout if no connection is established within 5min client.getParams().setParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.CONNECTION_TIMEOUT, 300 * 1000); HttpResponse httpResponse; try { httpResponse = client.execute(request); responseCode = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode(); message = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getReasonPhrase(); HttpEntity entity = httpResponse.getEntity(); if (entity != null) { InputStream instream = entity.getContent(); response = convertStreamToString(instream); // Closing the input stream will trigger connection release instream.close(); } } catch (ClientProtocolException ex) { client.getConnectionManager().shutdown(); Log.e(RestService.class.getSimpleName(), "Failed to execute rest call ", ex); } catch (IOException ex) { client.getConnectionManager().shutdown(); Log.e(RestService.class.getSimpleName(), "Failed to execute rest call ", ex); } } private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) { BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is)); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String line = null; try { while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(line + "\n"); } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { try { is.close(); } catch (IOException ex) { Log.w(RestService.class.getName(), "failed to close input stream", ex); } } return sb.toString(); } }