Java URL Connection shortenUrl(String url)

Description

shorten Url

License

Apache License

Declaration

private static String shortenUrl(String url) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Apache License 

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

public class Main {
    private static String shortenUrl(String url) {
        String shortUrl = "";

        try {//from www .  j ava2s .c  o  m
            URLConnection conn = new URL("https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url").openConnection();
            conn.setDoOutput(true);
            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
            OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
            wr.write("{\"longUrl\":\"" + url + "\"}");
            wr.flush();

            // Get the response
            BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
            String line;

            while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
                if (line.indexOf("id") > -1) {
                    //hack
                    shortUrl = line.substring(8, line.length() - 2);
                    break;
                }
            }

            wr.close();
            rd.close();
        } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

        return shortUrl;

    }
}

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