Android™

HTTP POST JSON and Parse JSON Response

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Demonstrates how to send a JSON POST and then parse the JSON response. Android™

// 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;

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

    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();

    success = json.LoadFile("qa_data/json/jsonBodyForHttpPost.json");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, json.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    CkHttpResponse resp = new CkHttpResponse();
    success = http.HttpJson("POST","https://test.something.com/XYZ/API/v1/CreditInsuranceCalculator/CalculatePremiums",json,"application/json",resp);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    CkJsonObject jsonResp = new CkJsonObject();
    jsonResp.Load(resp.bodyStr());

    jsonResp.put_EmitCompact(false);
    Log.i(TAG, jsonResp.emit());

    // The JSON response to be parsed looks like this:
    // {
    //   "LifeAmount": 513.85,
    //   "LifeResidualAmount": 123.38,
    //   "CriticalIllnessAmount": 0,
    //   "CriticalIllnessResidualAmount": 0,
    //   "DisabilityAmount": 881.70,
    //   "PolicyFee": 0.00,
    //   "PolicyFeeSecondary": 0,
    //   "PolicyFeeHidden": 50.00,
    //   "PolicyFeeHiddenSecondary": 0
    // }

    // We can get the floating point numbers as strings.  Then convert to double
    // using the appropriate string-to-double conversion for your programming language.
    // For example, in C++ use atof.  In C# use Convert.ToDouble.  
    String lifeAmount = jsonResp.stringOf("LifeAmount");
    String lifeResidualAmount = jsonResp.stringOf("LifeResidualAmount");

    Log.i(TAG, "LifeAmount = " + lifeAmount);
    Log.i(TAG, "LifeResidualAmount = " + lifeResidualAmount);

  }

  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."
  }
}