Android™

HTTP Methods - GET and DELETE

Demonstrate a method for sending HTTP requests that don't have a request body, such as for GET or DELETE requests. 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.

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    //  Specifiy a session log file so we can see the exact request/response
    http.put_SessionLogFilename("c:/aaworkarea/sessionLog.txt");

    //  Perhaps add a custom header or two..
    http.SetRequestHeader("x-exz-date","20201012T235046Z");
    http.SetRequestHeader("x-exz-id","1234");

    //  Send a GET request to https://www.example.com/someting?param1=123&param2=abc
    String url = "https://www.example.com/someting?param1=123&param2=abc";
    CkHttpResponse resp = new CkHttpResponse();
    success = http.HttpNoBody("GET",url,resp);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  The GET request that is sent looks like this.
    //  The Accept and Accept-Encoding headers are automatically added by default.

    //  	GET /someting?param1=123&param2=abc HTTP/1.1
    //  	Host: www.example.com
    //  	Accept: */*
    //  	Accept-Encoding: gzip
    //  	x-exz-date: 20201012T235046Z
    //  	x-exz-id: 1234

    //  Get the response status
    int statusCode = resp.get_StatusCode();
    Log.i(TAG, "Response status: " + String.valueOf(statusCode));

    //  Get the response body
    Log.i(TAG, resp.bodyStr());

    //  -------------------------------------------------------------
    //  Let's say we want to send a DELETE request, and we only want to accept an application/json response,
    //  and we don't want gzipped responses...

    //  First remove the previously specified custom headers.
    http.ClearHeaders();

    //  Indicate we only accept application/json non-gzipped responses.
    http.put_Accept("application/json");
    http.put_AllowGzip(false);

    //  Send a DELETE request to https://www.example.com/deleteSomething
    url = "https://www.example.com/deleteSomething";
    success = http.HttpNoBody("DELETE",url,resp);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  The DELETE request that is sent looks like this.
    //  The empty Accept-Encoding header value means we only want non-compressed responses.

    //  	DELETE /deleteSomething HTTP/1.1
    //  	Host: www.example.com
    //  	Accept: application/json
    //  	Accept-Encoding: 

    //  Get the response status
    statusCode = resp.get_StatusCode();
    Log.i(TAG, "Response status: " + String.valueOf(statusCode));

    //  Get the response body
    Log.i(TAG, resp.bodyStr());

  }

  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."
  }
}