Java URL Load ReadURL(String URLAddress)

Description

Reads data from an URLAddress to the string

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
URLAddress	a parameter

Declaration

public static ArrayList<String> ReadURL(String URLAddress) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*Copyright 2008 by Vladimir Polony, Stupy 24, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
    //from  w w w .j a  v  a  2s.  c  o m
This file is part of OpenRep FREE homeopathic software.
    
OpenRep FREE is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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OpenRep FREE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
    
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;

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

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Main {
    /** Reads data from an URLAddress to the string
     *
     * @param URLAddress
     * @return
     */
    public static ArrayList<String> ReadURL(String URLAddress) {
        URL address;
        try {
            address = new URL(URLAddress);
        } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
            return null;
        }
        ArrayList<String> sb = new ArrayList();
        try {
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(address.openStream()));

            String inputLine;

            while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
                sb.add(inputLine);
            in.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            return null;
        }
        return sb;
    }
}

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