Sending POST data in Android

Question

I'm experienced with PHP, JavaScript and a lot of other scripting languages, but I don't have a lot of experience with Java or Android.

I'm looking for a way to send POST data to a PHP script and display the result.

Answer 1

This is an example of how to POST multi-part data WITHOUT using external Apache libraries:

byte[] buffer = getBuffer();

if(buffer.length > 0) {
   String lineEnd = "\r\n"; 
   String twoHyphens = "--"; 
   String boundary =  "RQdzAAihJq7Xp1kjraqf"; 

   ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
   DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(baos);

   // Send parameter #1
   dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd); 
   dos.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"param1\"" + lineEnd);
   dos.writeBytes("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII" + lineEnd);
   dos.writeBytes("Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" + lineEnd);
   dos.writeBytes(lineEnd);
   dos.writeBytes(myStringData + lineEnd);

   // Send parameter #2
   //dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd); 
   //dos.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"param2\"" + lineEnd + lineEnd);
   //dos.writeBytes("foo2" + lineEnd);

   // Send a binary file
   dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd); 
   dos.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"param3\";filename=\"test_file.dat\"" + lineEnd); 
   dos.writeBytes("Content-Type: application/octet-stream" + lineEnd);
   dos.writeBytes("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary" + lineEnd);
   dos.writeBytes(lineEnd); 
   dos.write(buffer);
   dos.writeBytes(lineEnd); 
   dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + twoHyphens + lineEnd); 
   dos.flush(); 
   dos.close();

   ByteArrayInputStream content = new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray());
   BasicHttpEntity entity = new BasicHttpEntity();
   entity.setContent(content);

   HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(myURL);
   httpPost.addHeader("Connection", "Keep-Alive");
   httpPost.addHeader("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary="+boundary);

   //MultipartEntity entity = new MultipartEntity();
   //entity.addPart("param3", new ByteArrayBody(buffer, "test_file.dat"));
   //entity.addPart("param1", new StringBody(myStringData));

   httpPost.setEntity(entity);

   /*
   String httpData = "";
   ByteArrayOutputStream baos1 = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
   entity.writeTo(baos1);
   httpData = baos1.toString("UTF-8");
   */

   /*
   Header[] hdrs = httpPost.getAllHeaders();
   for(Header hdr: hdrs) {
     httpData += hdr.getName() + " | " + hdr.getValue() + " |_| ";
   }
   */

   //Log.e(TAG, "httpPost data: " + httpData);
   response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
}

Answer 2

Use the open source okHttp library from Square. okHttp works from Android 2.3 and up and has an Apache 2.0 license on GitHub.

Sending POST data is as simple as adding the following in an AsyncTask:

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
RequestBody formBody = new FormBody.Builder()
                      .add("email", emailString) // A sample POST field
                      .add("comment", commentString) // Another sample POST field
                      .build();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
                 .url("https://yourdomain.org/callback.php") // The URL to send the data to
                 .post(formBody)
                 .build();

okHttp also has a namespace on maven, so adding it to your Android Studio project is simple. Just add compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.11.0' to your app's build.gradle.

Complete Code

Add the following to your activity:

public class CallAPI extends AsyncTask<String, String, String> {

    String emailString;
    String commentString;

    public CallAPI(String email, String commnt){
           emailString = email;
           commentString = commnt;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        super.onPreExecute();
    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
        OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
        RequestBody formBody = new FormBody.Builder()
                      .add("email", emailString) // A sample POST field
                      .add("comment", commentString) // Another sample POST field
                      .build();
        Request request = new Request.Builder()
                 .url("https://yourdomain.org/callback.php") // The URL to send the data to
                 .post(formBody)
                 .build();
        return "";
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String s) {
        super.onPostExecute(s);
    }
}

And call it using:

new CallAPI(emailString, commentString).execute();

Answer 3

You can use this to send an HTTP POST request to a URL. You can easily send request and get response. I always use this . I fine work to me.

  ///////////////////// Check SubScription ////////////////////

        try {
                                 AsyncHttpClient client = new AsyncHttpClient();
                                   // Http Request Params Object
                                   RequestParams params = new RequestParams();
                                   String u = "B2mGaME";
                                   String au = "gamewrapperB2M";
                                   // String mob = "880xxxxxxxxxx";
                                   params.put("usr", u.toString());
                                   params.put("aut", au.toString());
                                   params.put("uph", MobileNo.toString());
                                   //  params.put("uph", mob.toString());
                                                client.post("http://196.6.13.01:88/ws/game_wrapper_reg_check.php", params, new AsyncHttpResponseHandler() {
                                       @Override
                                       public void onSuccess(String response) {
                                           playStatus = response;
                                        //////Get your Response/////
                                           Log.i(getClass().getSimpleName(), "Response SP Status. " + playStatus);
                                       }
                   @Override
                   public void onFailure(Throwable throwable) {
                       super.onFailure(throwable);
                   }
                                   });
                               } catch (Exception e) {
                                   e.printStackTrace();
                               }

You Also need to Add bellow Jar file in libs folde

android-async-http-1.3.1.jar

Finally edit your build.gradle

dependencies {
    compile files('libs/<android-async-http-1.3.1.jar>')

}

In the last Rebuild your project.