Send a Form-URL-Encoded REST Request

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded, which sends an application/x-www-form-urlencoded request. The body is built from the query parameters added to the object, and the response body is returned as text.

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Rest;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Rest rest = new Rest();
        boolean bTls = true;
        boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
        String responseText;
        try {
            rest.connect("example.com", 443, bTls, bAutoReconnect);

            // The application/x-www-form-urlencoded body is built from the query parameters added to the object.
            rest.addQueryParam("username", "alice");
            rest.addQueryParam("action", "login");

            // Send the form-url-encoded request.  The parameters become the request body rather than the URL
            // query string.
            responseText = rest.fullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST", "/api/login");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println(responseText);
    }
}