How to switch from HttpClient to HttpUrlConnection?

Question

I am creating an Android application and I send data from Android application to servlet through HttpClient. I use HttpPost method.

I read in Android developer site

Answer 1

When I read the already mentioned Google post about best practices doing HTTP requests in newer versions of Android, I thought somebody was kidding me. HttpURLConnection is really a nightmare to use, compared to almost any other way to communicate with HTTP servers (apart from direct Socket communication).

I didn't find a really slim library for Android to do the heavy lifting, so I wrote my own. You can find it at DavidWebb including a list of alternative libraries which I found (unfortunately) after developing the library.

Your code would look more or less like this:

public void testPostToUrl() throws Exception {
    String[] values = new String[3];

    Webb webb = Webb.create();
    Response response = webb
            .post("http://www.example.com/abc.php")
            .param("param1", values[0])
            .param("param2", values[1])
            .param("param3", values[2])
            .asString();

    assertEquals(200, response.getStatusCode());
    assertNotNull(response.getBody());
    assertTrue(response.getBody().contains("my expected result"));
}

public void testPostToUrlShorter() throws Exception {
    String[] values = new String[3];

    Webb webb = Webb.create();
    String result = webb
            .post("http://www.example.com/abc.php")
            .param("param1", values[0])
            .param("param2", values[1])
            .param("param3", values[2])
            .ensureSuccess()
            .asString()
            .getBody();

    assertTrue(result.contains("my expected result"));
}