Parse JSON from HttpURLConnection object

Question

I am doing basic http auth with the HttpURLConnection object in Java.

        URL urlUse = new URL(url);
        HttpURLConnection conn = null;
         


        

Answer 1

Define the following function (not mine, not sure where I found it long ago):

private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

String line = null;
try {
    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
        sb.append(line + "\n");
    }
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
    try {
        is.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}
return sb.toString();

}

Then:

String jsonReply;
if(conn.getResponseCode()==201 || conn.getResponseCode()==200)
    {
        success = true;
        InputStream response = conn.getInputStream();
        jsonReply = convertStreamToString(response);

        // Do JSON handling here....
    }