Java tutorial
package com.plnyyanks.frcnotebook.datafeed; import android.util.Log; import com.plnyyanks.frcnotebook.Constants; import org.apache.http.HttpEntity; import org.apache.http.HttpResponse; import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet; import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; /** * File created by phil on 2/18/2014. * Copyright 2014, Phil Lopreiato * This file is part of FRC Notebook. * FRC Notebook is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * FRC Notebook is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with FRC Notebook. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. */ public class GET_Request { public static String getWebData(String url, boolean tbaheader) { InputStream is = null; String result = ""; // HTTP try { HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); // for port 80 requests! HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(url); if (tbaheader) httpget.addHeader(Constants.TBA_HEADER, Constants.TBA_HEADER_TEXT); HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget); HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity(); is = entity.getContent(); } catch (Exception e) { Log.e(Constants.LOG_TAG, e.toString()); return null; } // Read response to string try { BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "utf-8"), 8); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String line = null; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { sb.append(line + "\n"); } is.close(); result = sb.toString(); } catch (Exception e) { Log.e(Constants.LOG_TAG, e.toString()); return null; } return result; } }