Java URL Read readUrl(String urlString)

Description

reads content from URL by making

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
urlString	url to read the content from (for example: http://www.google.com

Exception

Parameter	Description
IOException	if fails to parse URL, make call to URL

Return

response returned in form of String

Declaration

public static String readUrl(String urlString) throws IOException

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/*from   w  w w . j  a v  a 2 s. co  m*/
 * Copyright ? 2015 Lithium Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved subject to the terms of
 * the MIT License located at
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 * plugin?? project software provided by Lithium Technologies, Inc. (?Lithium??).  This
 * software is based upon certain software files authored by Grant Rodgers in 2015 as part
 * of the ?Elasticsearch SRV discovery plugin?? project.  As a result, some of the files in
 * this Elasticsearch Consul Discovery plugin?? project software are wholly authored by
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 * ?Elasticsearch SRV discovery plugin?? project software excluding any modifications by
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 * originally presented in the ?Elasticsearch SRV discovery plugin?? project software, also
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 * Created by Jigar Joshi on 8/9/15.
 */

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

public class Main {
    /**
     * reads content from URL by making
     *
     * @param urlString url to read the content from (for example: http://www.google.com
     * @return response returned in form of String
     * @throws IOException if fails to parse URL, make call to URL
     */
    public static String readUrl(String urlString) throws IOException {
        StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
        BufferedReader br = null;
        InputStream inputStream = null;
        try {
            URL url = new URL(urlString);
            URLConnection urlConnection = url.openConnection();
            inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
            br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
            String line;
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                result.append(line);
            }
        } finally {
            closeQuitely(inputStream);
            closeQuitely(br);
        }
        return result.toString();
    }

    /**
     * closes closeable resource quitely, null safe and any exception raised is ignored
     *
     * @param closeable closeable to close
     */
    public static void closeQuitely(Closeable closeable) {
        if (closeable != null) {
            try {
                closeable.close();
            } catch (Exception ignore) {
            }
        }
    }
}

Java URL Read readUrl(String urlString)

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