Java tutorial
/** * * jerry-http - Common Java Functionality * Copyright (c) 2012-2015, Sandeep Gupta * * http://sangupta.com/projects/jerry-http * * 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.sangupta.jerry.util; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.http.client.HttpResponseException; import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory; import com.sangupta.jerry.http.WebRequest; /** * Function to handle file downloads from the web via HTTP. More schemes * may be added in future. * * @author sangupta * */ public class WebUtils { /** * My logger instance */ private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(WebUtils.class); /** * Download the file at the given location URL and store it as a temporary * file on disk. The temporary file is set to be deleted at the exit of the * application. * * @param url * absolute URL of the file * * @return {@link File} handle of the temporary file that was written to * disk if successful, <code>null</code> otherwise. * * @throws IOException * in case something fails */ public static File downloadToTempFile(String url) throws IOException { String extension = UriUtils.extractExtension(url); File tempFile = File.createTempFile("download", extension); tempFile.deleteOnExit(); logger.debug("Downloading {} to {}", url, tempFile.getAbsolutePath()); try { WebRequest.get(url).execute().writeToFile(tempFile); return tempFile; } catch (HttpResponseException e) { logger.error("HTTP response did not yield an OK status", e); } catch (IOException e) { logger.error("Unable to download url to temp file", e); } return null; } /** * Download the file at the given location URL and store it in the file * mentioned on disk. If the file exists, it will be over-written. * * @param url * absolute URL of the file * * @param fileToDownloadIn * {@link File} in which contents are written * * @return <code>true</code> if file was successfully downloaded, * <code>false</code> otherwise. * * @throws IOException * in case something fails */ public static boolean downloadToFile(String url, File fileToDownloadIn) throws IOException { try { WebRequest.get(url).execute().writeToFile(fileToDownloadIn); return true; } catch (HttpResponseException e) { logger.error("HTTP response did not yield an OK status", e); } catch (IOException e) { logger.error("Unable to download url to temp file", e); } return false; } }