(Android™) HTTPS GET Request with Authorization Bearer Header

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Demonstrates how to send an HTTPS GET request with an "Authorization: Bearer " header and get the text response (which could be JSON).

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    // Setting the AuthToken property causes the "Authorization: Bearer <token>" header to be added to each request.
    // Set AuthToken equal to your token without the keyword "Bearer".
    http.put_AuthToken("Your access token");

    // Send the GET request and get the response text (assuming you know beforehand that the response will be text, such as JSON, XML, HTML, etc.)
    String responseText = http.quickGetStr("https://www.example.com/something");
    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        // This means something failed where you did not get an HTTP response.
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // If you get here, then you received an HTTP response where you can check the response status code, and the responseText will contain
    // the response body.
    Log.i(TAG, "Response status code = " + String.valueOf(http.get_LastStatus()));
    if (http.get_LastStatus() != 200) {
        // Probably an error from the server.  Examine the HTTP response body.
        Log.i(TAG, responseText);
        return;
        }

    // If you get here, the response status code was the expected value indicating success,
    // if you know the response is JSON, you can load it into a Chilkat JSON object and continue ...
    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();
    json.put_EmitCompact(true);
    json.Load(responseText);
    Log.i(TAG, json.emit());

    // Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
    // Generate Parsing Code from JSON

    // ...
    // ...

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}