Java Utililty Methods HTTP Post

List of utility methods to do HTTP Post

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Description

The list of methods to do HTTP Post are organized into topic(s).

Method

Stringpost(String url, String body, Map headers)
Send a post request 
return fetch("POST", url, body, headers);
Stringpost(String url, String payload)
post 
URL obj = new URL(url);
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", USER_AGENT);
con.setRequestProperty("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.5");
con.setDoOutput(true);
DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(con.getOutputStream());
wr.writeBytes(payload);
...
HttpURLConnectionpost(String url, String postdata, String cookie)
post 
HttpURLConnection pHuc = getConnection(url);
pHuc.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
pHuc.setRequestProperty("Origin", url.substring(0, url.indexOf("/")));
pHuc.setRequestProperty("Host", url.substring(0, url.indexOf("/")));
pHuc.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookie);
try {
    pHuc.setRequestMethod("POST");
    pHuc.setDoOutput(true);
...
HttpURLConnectionPost(URL url, Map fields)
Post 
String body;
body = encodeToForm(fields);
return Post(url, body);
Stringpost(URL url, Map values)
POST to the specified URL with the specified map of values. 
return post(url, implode(values));
Stringpost(URL url, String content)
post 
return post(url, content, "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
InputStreampost(URL url, String contentType, byte[] data)
Sends HTTP POST request 
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
con.setDoOutput(true);
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.setRequestProperty("content-Type", contentType);
OutputStream out = con.getOutputStream();
try {
    out.write(data, 0, data.length);
    out.flush();
...
JsonObjectpostCall(JsonObject json, String url)
post Call 
try {
    HttpURLConnection connection = getConnection(url);
    try (OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream())) {
        osw.write(json.toString());
        osw.flush();
    int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
    if (responseCode != 200) {
...
voidpostData(Reader data, URL endpoint, Writer output)
Reads data from the data reader and posts it to a server via a POST request. 
HttpURLConnection urlc = null;
try {
    urlc = (HttpURLConnection) endpoint.openConnection();
    try {
        urlc.setRequestMethod("POST");
    } catch (ProtocolException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Shouldn't happen: HttpURLConnection doesn't support POST??", e);
    urlc.setDoOutput(true);
    urlc.setDoInput(true);
    urlc.setUseCaches(false);
    urlc.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
    urlc.setRequestProperty("Content-type", "text/xml; charset=" + "UTF-8");
    OutputStream out = urlc.getOutputStream();
    try {
        Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(out, "UTF-8");
        pipe(data, writer);
        writer.close();
    } finally {
        if (out != null) {
            try {
                out.close();
            } catch (Exception e) {
    InputStream in = urlc.getInputStream();
    try {
        Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(in);
        pipe(reader, output);
        reader.close();
    } finally {
        if (in != null)
            in.close();
} finally {
    if (urlc != null)
        urlc.disconnect();
StringpostForm(String url, Map params)
Post a form with parameters 
return postForm(url, params, null);