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package org.ojbc.util.helper;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.StringWriter;

import org.apache.http.Consts;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

/**
 * A set of utilities for dealing with Http streams.
 *
 */
public class HttpUtils {

    /**
     * Send the specified payload to the specified http endpoint via POST.
     * @param payload
     * @param url
     * @return the http response
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public static String post(String payload, String url) throws Exception {
        HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url);
        post.setEntity(new StringEntity(payload, Consts.UTF_8));
        HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
        HttpEntity reply = response.getEntity();
        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
        BufferedReader isr = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(reply.getContent()));
        String line;
        while ((line = isr.readLine()) != null) {
            sw.append(line);
        }
        sw.close();
        return sw.toString();
    }

}