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Android™

HTTP POST x-www-form-urlencoded

Demonstrates how to send a simple x-www-form-urlencoded POST.

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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);

    boolean success = false;

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    String jsonStr = "{ some json ... }";

    CkHttpRequest req = new CkHttpRequest();
    //  This query parameter just happens to be named "json" and contains JSON text.
    req.AddParam("json",jsonStr);

    //  We can optionally add more query parameters. 
    req.AddParam("abc","123");
    req.AddParam("xml","<abc>123</abc>");

    //  Note: Just because we passed a query param named "json" or "xml" means nothing special.  It's still just
    //  a name=value query parameter..

    req.put_HttpVerb("POST");
    req.put_ContentType("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

    CkHttpResponse resp = new CkHttpResponse();
    success = http.HttpReq("http://example.com/xyz/connect/report",req,resp);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    if (resp.get_StatusCode() != 200) {
        Log.i(TAG, "Hey, I didn't receive the expected response status code!");
        Log.i(TAG, "status code = " + String.valueOf(resp.get_StatusCode()));
        }

    //  Could be error text if the status code wasn't what we expected, or could be the response
    //  body you're seeking..
    String responseBody = resp.bodyStr();
    Log.i(TAG, responseBody);

    CkFileAccess fac = new CkFileAccess();
    String filepath = "some file path";
    success = fac.WriteEntireTextFile(filepath,responseBody,"utf-8",false);
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, fac.lastErrorText());
        }


  }

  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."
  }
}