PostMethod setRequestBody(String) deprecated - why?
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: setRequestBody(InputStream body) setRequestBody(String body) setRequestBody(NameValuePair[] parametersBody); NameValuePair API First two methods are deprecated. Does anybody knows why? Because if I want to put an XML to request body, NameValuePair does not help me. Does anybody knows an workaround or a solution? The javadoc says: Deprecated. use setRequestEntity(RequestEntity) RequestEntity has a lot of implementors, namely: ByteArrayRequestEntity,