Http Get using Android HttpURLConnection

I'm new to Java and Android development and try to create a simple app which should contact a web server and add some data to a database using a http get.

When I do the call using the web browser in my computer it works just fine. However, when I do the call running the app in the Android emulator no data is added.

I have added Internet permission to the app's manifest. Logcat does not report any problems.

Can anyone help me to figure out what's wrong?

Here is the source code:

package com.example.httptest;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class HttpTestActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        TextView tv = new TextView(this);
        setContentView(tv);

        try {
            URL url = new URL("http://www.mysite.se/index.asp?data=99");
            HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            urlConnection.disconnect();
            tv.setText("Hello!");
        }
        catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
            Log.e("httptest",Log.getStackTraceString(ex)); 
        }
        catch (IOException ex) {
            Log.e("httptest",Log.getStackTraceString(ex));
        }   
    }        
}

Solution 1:

Try getting the input stream from this you can then get the text data as so:-

    URL url;
    HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
    try {
        url = new URL("http://www.mysite.se/index.asp?data=99");

        urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url
                .openConnection();

        InputStream in = urlConnection.getInputStream();

        InputStreamReader isw = new InputStreamReader(in);

        int data = isw.read();
        while (data != -1) {
            char current = (char) data;
            data = isw.read();
            System.out.print(current);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        if (urlConnection != null) {
            urlConnection.disconnect();
        }    
    }

You can probably use other inputstream readers such as buffered reader also.

The problem is that when you open the connection - it does not 'pull' any data.

Solution 2:

Here is a complete AsyncTask class

public class GetMethodDemo extends AsyncTask<String , Void ,String> {
    String server_response;

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... strings) {

        URL url;
        HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;

        try {
            url = new URL(strings[0]);
            urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

            int responseCode = urlConnection.getResponseCode();

            if(responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK){
                server_response = readStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
                Log.v("CatalogClient", server_response);
            }

        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String s) {
        super.onPostExecute(s);

        Log.e("Response", "" + server_response);


    }
}

// Converting InputStream to String

private String readStream(InputStream in) {
        BufferedReader reader = null;
        StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
        try {
            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
            String line = "";
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                response.append(line);
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            if (reader != null) {
                try {
                    reader.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }
        return response.toString();
    }

To Call this AsyncTask class

new GetMethodDemo().execute("your web-service url");

Solution 3:

I have created with callBack(delegate) response to Activity class.

public class WebService extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {

    private Context mContext;
    private OnTaskDoneListener onTaskDoneListener;
    private String urlStr = "";

    public WebService(Context context, String url, OnTaskDoneListener onTaskDoneListener) {
        this.mContext = context;
        this.urlStr = url;
        this.onTaskDoneListener = onTaskDoneListener;
    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
        try {

            URL mUrl = new URL(urlStr);
            HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) mUrl.openConnection();
            httpConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
            httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-length", "0");
            httpConnection.setUseCaches(false);
            httpConnection.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
            httpConnection.setConnectTimeout(100000);
            httpConnection.setReadTimeout(100000);

            httpConnection.connect();

            int responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();

            if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(httpConnection.getInputStream()));
                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                String line;
                while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                    sb.append(line + "\n");
                }
                br.close();
                return sb.toString();
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String s) {
        super.onPostExecute(s);

        if (onTaskDoneListener != null && s != null) {
            onTaskDoneListener.onTaskDone(s);
        } else
            onTaskDoneListener.onError();
    }
}

where

public interface OnTaskDoneListener {
    void onTaskDone(String responseData);

    void onError();
}

You can modify according to your needs. It's for get