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RESTFul Client on Android

I was surfing on net , i didn't get a needed help on RESTful Client on Android, so I decided to write my own.
Following is the code..

First of all REST service architecture uses all the basic operations of HTTP to interact.

First of all u would have to set make a HttpGet method with the URI to be requested.

HttpGet httpGet=new HttpGet(new URI("www://abc.con");

i have used new URI() as a get parameter because if u are sending some parameters with the GET request , it will encode the parameters ready to be sent along the network channel.

Second step is that u will have to make a HttpClient which will execute the GET request that we have made.
It is made as follows--
HttpClient httpClient=new DefaultHttpClient();

now execute the GET request from the HttpClient
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Make a variable to hold Response of the request
HttpResponse httpResponse=httpClient.execute(httpGET);

to convert the Response to string use the following line
String result=EntityUtils.toString(httpResponse.getEntity());


So ur result is ready as a string, u can use various parser according to response types ie XML and JSON.


In the next post i will explain the basics of Rest Client by using Spring Android Framework , which is better and easy to use, u do not have to consider any response types ,it automatically parses all data for u,
So wait for next article.

Comments

  1. ATul SinghJune 26, 2011 at 12:56 AM

    I forgot to mention in this post that , all netwotrk related operations , ie
    client.execute() where response is feteched,infact u should run all the above code using AsyncTask or using Thread, because ANdorid does not allow network related operations to be running on main UI thread , it will throw out NetworkOnMainUIThreadException .

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