How To Send json Object to the server from my android app

Question

I\'m at a bit of a loss as to how to send a jsonobject from my android application to the database

As I am new to this I\'m not too sure where I\'ve gon

Answer 1

You need to be using an AsyncTask class to communicate with your server. Something like this:

This is in your onCreate method.

Button submitButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.submit_button);

submitButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
        JSONObject postData = new JSONObject();
        try {
            postData.put("name", name.getText().toString());
            postData.put("address", address.getText().toString());
            postData.put("manufacturer", manufacturer.getText().toString());
            postData.put("location", location.getText().toString());
            postData.put("type", type.getText().toString());
            postData.put("deviceID", deviceID.getText().toString());

            new SendDeviceDetails().execute("http://52.88.194.67:8080/IOTProjectServer/registerDevice", postData.toString());
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
});

This is a new class within you activity class.

private class SendDeviceDetails extends AsyncTask {

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

        String data = "";

        HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = null;
        try {

            httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(params[0]).openConnection();
            httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");

            httpURLConnection.setDoOutput(true);

            DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(httpURLConnection.getOutputStream());
            wr.writeBytes("PostData=" + params[1]);
            wr.flush();
            wr.close();

            InputStream in = httpURLConnection.getInputStream();
            InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(in);

            int inputStreamData = inputStreamReader.read();
            while (inputStreamData != -1) {
                char current = (char) inputStreamData;
                inputStreamData = inputStreamReader.read();
                data += current;
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            if (httpURLConnection != null) {
                httpURLConnection.disconnect();
            }
        }

        return data;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
        super.onPostExecute(result);
        Log.e("TAG", result); // this is expecting a response code to be sent from your server upon receiving the POST data
    }
}

The line: httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("POST"); makes this an HTTP POST request and should be handled as a POST request on your server.

Then on your server you will need to create a new JSON object from the "PostData" which has been sent in the HTTP POST request. If you let us know what language you are using on your server then we can write up some code for you.