Parse JSON from HttpURLConnection object

html, httpurlconnection, java, json, parsing

Solution

You can get raw data using below method. BTW, this pattern is for Java 6. If you are using Java 7 or newer, please consider try-with-resources pattern.

public String getJSON(String url, int timeout) {
    HttpURLConnection c = null;
    try {
        URL u = new URL(url);
        c = (HttpURLConnection) u.openConnection();
        c.setRequestMethod("GET");
        c.setRequestProperty("Content-length", "0");
        c.setUseCaches(false);
        c.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
        c.setConnectTimeout(timeout);
        c.setReadTimeout(timeout);
        c.connect();
        int status = c.getResponseCode();

        switch (status) {
            case 200:
            case 201:
                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(c.getInputStream()));
                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                String line;
                while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                    sb.append(line+"\n");
                }
                br.close();
                return sb.toString();
        }

    } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(getClass().getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(getClass().getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    } finally {
       if (c != null) {
          try {
              c.disconnect();
          } catch (Exception ex) {
             Logger.getLogger(getClass().getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
          }
       }
    }
    return null;
}

And then you can use returned string with Google Gson to map JSON to object of specified class, like this:

String data = getJSON("http://localhost/authmanager.php");
AuthMsg msg = new Gson().fromJson(data, AuthMsg.class);
System.out.println(msg);

There is a sample of AuthMsg class:

public class AuthMsg {
    private int code;
    private String message;

    public int getCode() {
        return code;
    }
    public void setCode(int code) {
        this.code = code;
    }

    public String getMessage() {
        return message;
    }
    public void setMessage(String message) {
        this.message = message;
    }
}

JSON returned by http://localhost/authmanager.php must look like this:

{"code":1,"message":"Logged in"}

Regards

Problem

I am doing basic http auth with the `HttpURLConnection` object in Java. ``` URL urlUse = new URL(url); HttpURLConnection conn = null; conn = (HttpURLConnection) urlUse.openConnection(); conn.setRequestMethod("GET"); conn.setRequestProperty("Content-length", "0"); conn.setUseCaches(false); conn.setAllowUserInteraction(false); conn.setConnectTimeout(timeout); conn.setReadTimeout(timeout); conn.connect(); if(conn.getResponseCode()==201 || conn.getResponseCode()==200) { success = true; } ``` I am expecting a JSON object, or string data in the format of a valid JSON object, or HTML with simple plain text that is valid JSON. How do I access that from the `HttpURLConnection` after it returns a response?

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