Java URL Read readUrlContent(URLConnection connection)

Description

Whole HTTP response as String from given URLConnection

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
connection	a parameter

Return

whole HTTP response as String

Declaration

public static String readUrlContent(URLConnection connection) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Reader;

import java.net.URLConnection;

public class Main {
    /**//from  w w  w  .  j av  a  2s.com
     * Whole HTTP response as String from given URLConnection
     *
     * @param connection
     * @return whole HTTP response as String
     */
    public static String readUrlContent(URLConnection connection) {
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
        try {
            Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(
                    connection.getInputStream());
            char[] buffer = new char[50];
            int nrOfChars;
            while ((nrOfChars = reader.read(buffer)) != -1) {
                result.append(buffer, 0, nrOfChars);
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
        return result.toString();
    }
}

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2. readURL(URL url)
3. readUrl(URL url)
4. readUrl(URL url, String[]... headers)
5. readURL(URLConnection connection, String charset)
6. readURLToString(String url)
7. readUrlToString(String urlString)
8. readVersion(URLConnection connection)
9. retrieve(URL url)