I am trying to upload an image to Imgur using their API with a Java web application. I have copy-pasted this guy's code from Imgur API uploading . My method seems to run "successfully" but I don't think anything is happening. I get no feedback other than BUILD SUCCESS and am not sure how to get feedback (errors).
I am willing to spend a lot of time to get this to work but am wondering if someone can start me out by suggesting why my current implementation doesn't seem to work?
I made a plain Java class and pasted in the following:
package main;
import com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dv.util.Base64;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
/**
*
* @author J
*/
public class TestImgur1 {
public static String getImgurContent(String clientID) throws Exception {
clientID = "(edited out)";
URL url;
url = new URL("https://api.imgur.com/3/image");
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
String data = URLEncoder.encode("image", "UTF-8") + "="
+ URLEncoder.encode("http://i.imgur.com/FB9OZWQ.jpg", "UTF-8");
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setDoInput(true);
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Client-ID " + clientID);
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
conn.connect();
StringBuilder stb = new StringBuilder();
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(data);
wr.flush();
// Get the response
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String line;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
stb.append(line).append("\n");
}
wr.close();
rd.close();
System.out.println(stb.toString());
return stb.toString();
}
}
I made a 2nd plain Java class to call the 1st one so I can run it:
package main;
import java.io.IOException;
public class ImgurMainTest1 {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
try{
TestImgur1 TestImgur1 = new TestImgur1();
}catch (Exception e) {}
}
}
If you could just suggest why nothing is happening (apart from BUILD SUCCESS) that would really help me get started. I have looked around for other questions/answers about the subject but it seems like everyone is trying to implement it in a different way and is really hard for me to interpret. Thankyou for reading