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/* * Copyright (c) 2015. , Beaufort 8 * released under MIT License * http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT */ package de.elggconnect.elggconnectclient.webservice; import de.elggconnect.elggconnectclient.util.UserAuthentication; import org.json.simple.JSONObject; import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.OutputStreamWriter; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; /** * WebServiceMethod for the AuthGetToken HTTP API Method * * @author Alexander Stifel * @author Beaufort 8 */ public class AuthGetToken implements IWebServiceMethod { private static final String APIMETHOD = "method=auth.gettoken"; private static final String USER_AGENT = "ELGGCONNECT"; private String authToken; private UserAuthentication userAuthentication = UserAuthentication.getInstance(); private Long status = Long.valueOf(-1); private String username; private String password; public AuthGetToken(String username, String password) { this.password = password; this.username = username; } public String getAuthToken() { return authToken; } @Override /** * Run the AuthGetTokeb Web API Method */ public Long execute() { //Build url Parameter String String urlParameters = APIMETHOD + "&username=" + this.username + "&password=" + this.password; //Try to execute the API Method try { URL url = new URL(userAuthentication.getBaseURL()); URLConnection conn = url.openConnection(); //add user agent to the request header conn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", USER_AGENT); conn.setDoOutput(true); OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream()); writer.write(urlParameters); writer.flush(); String line; BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream())); //Read the response JSON StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder(); while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { text.append(line).append("\n"); } JSONObject json = (JSONObject) new JSONParser().parse(text.toString()); this.status = (Long) json.get("status"); if (this.status != -1L) { this.authToken = (String) json.get("result"); //Save the AuthToken userAuthentication.setAuthToken((String) json.get("result")); } writer.close(); reader.close(); } catch (Exception e) { System.err.println(e.getMessage()); } return this.status; } }