How to connect to a Remote Database with Webservices?

Question

I have an android APP. I need to connect to a remote D.B. on the internet. All i know is that i have to use a Web Service, installed on the remote DB server.

Whith m

Answer 1

This tutorial may help you. I know this works because i used this for an application that i am working on: Try this There are a few errors in the code. I will list the corrections you need to make.

If you read the comments below you can see where people have found problems with the code, but one i noticed is that there are too many "}" at the end. If you take out one of those "}" it should work fine. I believe the "}" at line 43 can be taken out.

Also, there is another error that you can fix: Look at line 13, take out "InputStream" in front of "is = entity.getContent();" Now go above the first try{} block and place this declaration: InputStream is;

That should correct all the problems.

Let me know how that works out for you. If you have any questions, let me know.

Answer 2

Kindly go through https://www.javatpoint.com/android-web-service

One small change
HttpPost httpPost=new HttpPost(  
                                  "http://10.0.0.8:7777/HttpPostServlet/servlet/httpPostServlet");  

Here 10.0.0.8:7777 cannot be correct
It is the webserver address in which servlet and jsp present.
Hope that helps!!!
This should be the base start and one can do lot of wonders after mastering.

Answer 3

You can connect to the web using the below code and get the data as a string,probably data send to you will be in the form of JSON or XML which you can parse.

Regarding how to connect to the webservice just give the url that your are connecting to and pass parameters.
String urlstr = "www.yoursite.com/api.php?parameter1="+parameter1+"&parameter2="+parameter2;

     URL updateURL = new URL(urlstr);  
                 URLConnection conn = updateURL.openConnection();  
                InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();  
                 BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);  
                 ByteArrayBuffer baf = new ByteArrayBuffer(100);  

                 int current = 0;  
                while((current = bis.read()) != -1){  
                     baf.append((byte)current);  
                }  


                String  html = new String(baf.toByteArray()); 

this link might give a clear idea as to how u can use internet data in your application.