I have a html file stored on the server. I have the URL path something like this: <https://localhost:9443/genesis/Receipt/Receipt.html >
I want to read the contents of this html file which would contain tags, from the url i.e. the source code of the html file.
How am I supposed to do this? This is a server side code and can't have a browser object and I am not sure using a URLConnection would be a good option.
What should be the best solution now?
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
public class URLConetent{
public static void main(String[] args) {
URL url;
try {
// get URL content
String a="http://localhost:8080//TestWeb/index.jsp";
url = new URL(a);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
// open the stream and put it into BufferedReader
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(inputLine);
}
br.close();
System.out.println("Done");
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Resolved it using spring
added the bean to the spring config file
<bean id = "receiptTemplate" class="org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource">
<constructor-arg value="/WEB-INF/Receipt/Receipt.html"></constructor-arg>
</bean>
then read it in my method
// read the file into a resource
ClassPathResource fileResource =
(ClassPathResource)context.getApplicationContext().getBean("receiptTemplate");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileResource.getFile()));
String line;
StringBuffer sb =
new StringBuffer();
// read contents line by line and store in the string
while ((line =
br.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
}
br.close();
return sb.toString();
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
//...
URL url = new URL("https://localhost:9443/genesis/Receipt/Receipt.html");
url.openConnection();
InputStream reader = url.openStream();
For exemple :
URL url = new URL("https://localhost:9443/genesis/Receipt/Receipt.html");
URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
String l;
while ((l=in.readLine())!=null) {
System.out.println(l);
}
You could use the inputstream in other ways, not just printing it.
Of course if you have the path to the local file, you can also do
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(new File(yourPath));