/simple-web-request

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simple-web-request

This project is created for simplifying java HTTP requests. This is inspired from python's request library. You can send http requests with just one line of code. This is still in beta and I will be adding functionalities for PUT and DELETE requests soon. Feel free to contribute to this project.

This project depends on org.json library. You can get it here

Code snippets

HTTP GET

We can send GET requests in 4 ways:

  • GET without parameters and headers
  • GET with parameters and without headers
  • GET with headers and without parameters
  • GET with both parameters and headers

Make sure to import these Classes before compilation!

import org.simplehttp.Request;
import org.simplehttp.Response;

Simple GET

Request request = new Request();
Resposne response = request.get("www.example.com");
int statusCode = response.statusCode;
String responseText = response.responseText;
JSONObject json = response.getJSONResponse();
String encoding = response.encoding;

GET with parameters

HashMap<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
params.put("paramname","paramvalue");
Request request = new Request();
Resposne response = request.get("www.example.com", params, "");

GET with headers

HashMap<String, String> headers = new HashMap<String, String>();
headers.put("headername","headervalue");
Request request = new Request();
Resposne response = request.get("www.example.com", "", headers);

GET with both parameters and headers

HashMap<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
HashMap<String, String> headers = new HashMap<String, String>();
params.put("paramname","paramvalue");
headers.put("headername","headervalue");
Request request = new Request();
Resposne response = request.get("www.example.com", params, headers);

HTTP POST

The POST method works exactly like the GET method. That is the main advantage of this library. When you want to pass request body, pass it in the same way as passing the request headers in GET.