Java Equivalent of curl query

Question

I am trying to fetch current user info after making him log into his box, using the box sdk for android. In the box api documentation, they have mentioned everything using curls. I am not familiar with curl. So, can anyone please give me a java equivalent for this curl operation :

curl https://api.box.com/2.0/users/me-H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN". 

I have the users access token.So, please give me a java equivalent for the above curl operation.

Answer 1

You can use java HttpClient

HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(URL);

httpPost.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN"); // add headers if needded

//set params
BasicNameValuePair[] params = new BasicNameValuePair[] {new BasicNameValuePair("param1","param value"),
            new BasicNameValuePair("param2","param value")};

UrlEncodedFormEntity urlEncodedFormEntity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity( Arrays.asList(params), "utf-8");
    httpPost.setEntity(urlEncodedFormEntity);

//execute request
HttpResponse response = client.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

String body = EntityUtils.toString(entity); //here response in string you can parse it

Answer 2

The HttpClient object that the other answer proposes is now deprecated. I solved a CURL problem like yours (with the extra difficulty of uploading a .wav file). Check out my code in this this answer/question. How to upload a WAV file using URLConnection