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/** * ============================================================================ * Copyright (c) 2013,2014 SciamLab s.r.l. * * 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.sciamlab.util; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; import java.util.Map; import org.apache.http.HttpResponse; import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException; import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpDelete; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost; import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity; import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient; /** * An HTTPClient helper class to perform REST calls */ public class HTTPClient { private HttpClient client; public HTTPClient() { this.client = new DefaultHttpClient(); } public String doGET(URL url) throws IOException { return this.doGET(url, null); } public String doGET(URL url, String user_agent) throws IOException { URLConnection yc = url.openConnection(); if (user_agent != null && !"".equals(user_agent)) yc.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", user_agent); String output = ""; BufferedReader in = null; try { in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(yc.getInputStream())); String inputLine; output = ""; while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) output += inputLine; } finally { if (in != null) { in.close(); } } return output; } public StringBuffer doGETBig(URL url) throws IOException { URLConnection yc = url.openConnection(); BufferedReader in = null; StringBuffer output = new StringBuffer(); try { in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(yc.getInputStream())); String line = in.readLine(); while (line != null) { output.append(line); line = in.readLine(); } } finally { if (in != null) { in.close(); } } return output; } public String doPOST(String url, String body, Map<String, String> headerParams) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException { HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url); StringEntity input = new StringEntity(body); post.setEntity(input); for (String param : headerParams.keySet()) { String value = headerParams.get(param); post.setHeader(param, value); } HttpResponse response = client.execute(post); BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent())); String line = ""; String out = ""; while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) { out += line; } return out; } public String doDELETE(String url, Map<String, String> headerParams) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException { HttpDelete delete = new HttpDelete(url); for (String param : headerParams.keySet()) { String value = headerParams.get(param); delete.setHeader(param, value); } HttpResponse response = client.execute(delete); BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent())); String line = ""; String out = ""; while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) { out += line; } return out; } }