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JAVA- Send HTTP Get/Post Request and Read JSON response

This tutorial shows how to send HTTP Get Request using java and Read JSON response.
To read json Response you will have to add java-jason.jar to class path.

  1. Send HTTP Get Request with Parameters.
    For testing I have signed UP with http://ipinfodb.com/ which gives the location of IP address for a get request with the API key. The parameters I am passing here is the API key, IP address and the Output format.
    Send_HTTP_Request2.java

    package com.chillyfacts.com;
    import java.io.BufferedReader;
    import java.io.InputStreamReader;
    import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
    import java.net.URL; 
    import org.json.JSONObject;
    public class Send_HTTP_Request2 {
    	public static void main(String[] args) {
         try {
             Send_HTTP_Request2.call_me();
            } catch (Exception e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
           }
         }
    	   
    public static void call_me() throws Exception {
         String url = "http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-city/?key=d64fcfdfacc213c7ddf4ef911dfe97b55e4696be3532bf8302876c09ebd06b&ip=74.125.45.100&format=json";
         URL obj = new URL(url);
         HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
         // optional default is GET
         con.setRequestMethod("GET");
         //add request header
         con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0");
         int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
         System.out.println("\nSending 'GET' request to URL : " + url);
         System.out.println("Response Code : " + responseCode);
         BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                 new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
         String inputLine;
         StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
         while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
         	response.append(inputLine);
         }
         in.close();
         //print in String
         System.out.println(response.toString());
         //Read JSON response and print
         JSONObject myResponse = new JSONObject(response.toString());
         System.out.println("result after Reading JSON Response");
         System.out.println("statusCode- "+myResponse.getString("statusCode"));
         System.out.println("statusMessage- "+myResponse.getString("statusMessage"));
         System.out.println("ipAddress- "+myResponse.getString("ipAddress"));
         System.out.println("countryCode- "+myResponse.getString("countryCode"));
         System.out.println("countryName- "+myResponse.getString("countryName"));
         System.out.println("regionName- "+myResponse.getString("regionName"));
         System.out.println("cityName- "+myResponse.getString("cityName"));
         System.out.println("zipCode- "+myResponse.getString("zipCode"));
         System.out.println("latitude- "+myResponse.getString("latitude"));
         System.out.println("longitude- "+myResponse.getString("longitude"));
         System.out.println("timeZone- "+myResponse.getString("timeZone"));  
       }
    }
    

    The JSON response for the above code is shown below.

    {
    	"statusCode" : "OK",
    	"statusMessage" : "",
    	"ipAddress" : "74.125.45.100",
    	"countryCode" : "US",
    	"countryName" : "United States",
    	"regionName" : "Oklahoma",
    	"cityName" : "Tulsa",
    	"zipCode" : "74101",
    	"latitude" : "36.154",
    	"longitude" : "-95.9928",
    	"timeZone" : "-05:00"
    }
    

    The JAVA Console output will be,

    Sending 'GET' request to URL : http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-city/?key=d64fcfdfacc213c7ddf4ef911dfe97b55e4696be3532bf8302876c09ebad0b&ip=74.125.45.100&format=json
    Response Code : 200
    
    {	"statusCode" : "OK",	"statusMessage" : "",	"ipAddress" : "74.125.45.100",	"countryCode" : "US",	"countryName" : "United States",	"regionName" : "Oklahoma",	"cityName" : "Tulsa",	"zipCode" : "74101",	"latitude" : "36.154",	"longitude" : "-95.9928",	"timeZone" : "-05:00"}
    
    result after Reading JSON Response
    statusCode- OK
    statusMessage- 
    ipAddress- 74.125.45.100
    countryCode- US
    countryName- United States
    regionName- Oklahoma
    cityName- Tulsa
    zipCode- 74101
    latitude- 36.154
    longitude- -95.9928
    timeZone- -05:00
    
    
  2. In the below example I am passing a request to http://httpbin.org/ip. Which will give me a JSON response of my IP address.
    Send HTTP Get Request without Parameters.

    package com.chillyfacts.com;
    import java.io.BufferedReader;
    import java.io.InputStreamReader;
    import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
    import java.net.URL;
    import org.json.JSONObject; 
    public class Send_HTTP_Request {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    	try {
            Send_HTTP_Request.call_me();
    	} catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
    	}
    }
    
    
    public static void call_me() throws Exception {
    	String url = "http://httpbin.org/ip";
            URL obj = new URL(url);
            HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
            // optional default is GET
            con.setRequestMethod("GET");
            //add request header
            con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0");
            int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
            System.out.println("\nSending 'GET' request to URL : " + url);
            System.out.println("Response Code : " + responseCode);
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
            String inputLine;
            StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
            while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
            	response.append(inputLine);
            }
            in.close();
            
            //print in String
            System.out.println(response.toString());
            
            //Read JSON response and print
            JSONObject myResponse = new JSONObject(response.toString());
            System.out.println("result after Reading JSON Response");
            System.out.println("origin- "+myResponse.getString("origin"));
             
    	    }
    }
    

    JSON output for above request is,

    {
      "origin": "78.100.209.0"
    }
    

    Java Console output is,

    Sending 'GET' request to URL : http://httpbin.org/ip
    Response Code : 200
    {  "origin": "78.100.209.0"}
    
    result after Reading JSON Response
    origin- 78.100.209.0
    
  3. Send_HTTP_Post_Request.java

    package com.chillyfacts.com;
    import java.io.BufferedReader;
    import java.io.InputStreamReader;
    import java.io.Reader;
    import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
    import java.net.URL;
    import java.net.URLEncoder;
    import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
    import java.util.Map;
    import org.json.JSONObject;
    public class Send_HTTP_Post_Request {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    	try {
    		Send_HTTP_Post_Request.call_me();
    	} catch (Exception e) {
    		e.printStackTrace();
    	}
    	}
    	 public static void call_me() throws Exception {
    	    URL url = new URL("https://httpbin.org/post");
    	    Map params = new LinkedHashMap<>();
    	    params.put("name", "Jinu Jawad");
    	    params.put("email", "helloworld@gmail.com");
    	    params.put("CODE", 1111);
    	    params.put("message", "Hello Post Test success");
    	    StringBuilder postData = new StringBuilder();
    	    for (Map.Entry param : params.entrySet()) {
    	        if (postData.length() != 0) postData.append('&');
    	        postData.append(URLEncoder.encode(param.getKey(), "UTF-8"));
    	        postData.append('=');
    	        postData.append(URLEncoder.encode(String.valueOf(param.getValue()), "UTF-8"));
    	    }
    	    byte[] postDataBytes = postData.toString().getBytes("UTF-8");
    	    HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
    	    conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
    	    conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    	    conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", String.valueOf(postDataBytes.length));
    	    conn.setDoOutput(true);
    	    conn.getOutputStream().write(postDataBytes);
    	    Reader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));
    	    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    	    for (int c; (c = in.read()) >= 0;)
    	        sb.append((char)c);
    	    String response = sb.toString();
    	    System.out.println(response);
    	    JSONObject myResponse = new JSONObject(response.toString());
    	    System.out.println("result after Reading JSON Response");
    	    System.out.println("origin- "+myResponse.getString("origin"));
    	    System.out.println("url- "+myResponse.getString("url"));
    	    JSONObject form_data = myResponse.getJSONObject("form");
    	    System.out.println("CODE- "+form_data.getString("CODE"));
    	    System.out.println("email- "+form_data.getString("email"));
    	    System.out.println("message- "+form_data.getString("message"));
    	    System.out.println("name"+form_data.getString("name"));
    	}
    }
    

    The JSON response for the above code is,

    {
      "args": {}, 
      "data": "", 
      "files": {}, 
      "form": {
        "CODE": "1111", 
        "email": "helloworld@gmail.com", 
        "message": "Hello Post Test success", 
        "name": "Jinu Jawad"
      }, 
      "headers": {
        "Accept": "text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2", 
        "Connection": "close", 
        "Content-Length": "86", 
        "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", 
        "Host": "httpbin.org", 
        "User-Agent": "Java/1.8.0_131"
      }, 
      "json": null, 
      "origin": "78.100.217.219", 
      "url": "http://httpbin.org/post"
    }
    

    The console output is

    result after Reading JSON Response
    origin- 78.100.217.219
    url- http://httpbin.org/post
    CODE- 1111
    email- helloworld@gmail.com
    message- Hello Post Test success
    nameJinu Jawad
    

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