PostMethod setRequestBody(String) deprecated - why?

Question

I am using Apache Commons HttpClient PostMethod 3.1.

In the PostMethod class there are also three methods for setting POST method\'s request body:

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Answer 1

The javadoc says:

Deprecated. use setRequestEntity(RequestEntity)

RequestEntity has a lot of implementors, namely:

ByteArrayRequestEntity, FileRequestEntity, InputStreamRequestEntity, MultipartRequestEntity, StringRequestEntity

Use the one that suits you:

• if your xml is in a String, use the StringRequestEntity
• if it is in a file, use the FileRequestEntity

and so on.

Answer 2

Yes, so for example,

post.setRequestEntity( new StringRequestEntity( xml ) );

instead of

post.setRequestBody( xml );