Android: AsyncTask to make an HTTP GET Request?

Question

I\'m new to Android development. My question is, do I use AsyncTask in order to make an HTTP GET request (JSON response)? Is this correct? Does anyone know where I can see a

Answer 1

Here is simple HttpsURLConnection in ASyncTask class for Https POST/GET web-API calling along with packet-header and JSONObject in body.

import android.os.AsyncTask;

import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.ProtocolException;
import java.net.URL;

import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;

/**
 * Class to handle BasicAuth post web-api call.
 */
public class Information extends AsyncTask {

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

        try {
            // Creating & connection Connection with url and required Header.
            URL url = new URL("https://example.com/wp-json/jwt-auth/v1/token");
            HttpsURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
            urlConnection.setRequestProperty("header-param_3", "value-3");
            urlConnection.setRequestProperty("header-param_4", "value-4");
            urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic Y2tfNDIyODg0NWI1YmZiZT1234ZjZWNlOTA3ZDYyZjI4MDMxY2MyNmZkZjpjc181YjdjYTY5ZGM0OTUwODE3NzYwMWJhMmQ2OGQ0YTY3Njk1ZGYwYzcw");
            urlConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");   //POST or GET
            urlConnection.connect();

            // Create JSONObject Request
            JSONObject jsonRequest = new JSONObject();
            jsonRequest.put("username", "user.name");
            jsonRequest.put("password", "pass@123");

            // Write Request to output stream to server.
            OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(urlConnection.getOutputStream());
            out.write(jsonRequest.toString());
            out.close();

            // Check the connection status.
            int statusCode = urlConnection.getResponseCode();
            String statusMsg = urlConnection.getResponseMessage();

            // Connection success. Proceed to fetch the response.
            if (statusCode == 200) {
                InputStream it = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
                InputStreamReader read = new InputStreamReader(it);
                BufferedReader buff = new BufferedReader(read);
                StringBuilder dta = new StringBuilder();
                String chunks;
                while ((chunks = buff.readLine()) != null) {
                    dta.append(chunks);
                }
                String returndata = dta.toString();
                return returndata;
            } else {
                //Handle else case
            }
        } catch (ProtocolException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return null;
    }

}

Here the value of Authentication (Header-parameter) is the Base64 encoded value of [API-key]:[API-Secret] appending the "Basic " string in start.

In Android Studio, use the Gradle entry as:

compile 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.4.1'
compile 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.5'