How to read XML response from a URL in java?

Question

I need to write a simple function that takes a URL and processes the response which is XML or JSON, I have checked the Sun website https://swingx-ws.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList , but the HttpRequest object is to be found nowhere, is it possible to do this in Java? I`m writting a rich client end app.

Answer 1

Ok I think I have solves the problem below is a working code

//
package xmlhttp;

import org.jdesktop.http.Response;

import org.jdesktop.http.Session;

import org.jdesktop.http.State;



public class GetXmlHttp{


    public static void main(String[] args) {

        getResponse();

    }

    public static void getResponse()
    {

        final Session session = new Session();

        try {
            String url="http://192.172.2.23:8080/geoserver/wfs?request=GetFeature&version=1.1.0&outputFormat=GML2&typeName=topp:networkcoverage,topp:tehsil&bbox=73.07846689124875,33.67929015631999,73.07946689124876,33.68029015632,EPSG:4326";
            final Response res=session.get(url);
            boolean notDone=true;
            do
            {
                System.out.print(session.getState().toString());

                if(session.getState()==State.DONE)
                {
                    String xml=res.toString();
                    System.out.println(xml);
                    notDone=false;


                }

            }while(notDone);

        } catch (Exception e1) {

            e1.printStackTrace();
        }


    }

}

Answer 2

Get your response via a regular http-request, using:

• Apache HttpComponents
• the built-in URLConnection con = new URL("http://example.com").openConnection();

The next step is parsing it. Take a look at this article for a choice of parser.

Answer 3

For xml parsing of an inputstream you can do:

// the SAX way:
XMLReader myReader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
myReader.setContentHandler(handler);
myReader.parse(new InputSource(new URL(url).openStream()));

// or if you prefer DOM:
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = db.parse(new URL(url).openStream());

But to communicate over http from server to client I prefer using hessian library or springs http invoker lib

Answer 4

If you want to print XML directly onto the screen you can use TransformerFactory

URL url = new URL(urlString);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();

DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(conn.getInputStream());

TransformerFactory transformerFactory= TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer xform = transformerFactory.newTransformer();

// that’s the default xform; use a stylesheet to get a real one
xform.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(System.out));

Answer 5

This Code is to parse the XML wraps the JSON Response and display in the front end using ajax.

Required JavaScript code.

<script type="text/javascript">
$.ajax({
	method:"GET",
	url: "javatpoint.html", 
	
	success : function(data) { 
		
		 var json=JSON.parse(data);	
		 var tbody=$('tbody');
		for(var i in json){
			tbody.append('<tr><td>'+json[i].id+'</td>'+
					'<td>'+json[i].firstName+'</td>'+
					'<td>'+json[i].lastName+'</td>'+
					'<td>'+json[i].Download_DateTime+'</td>'+
					'<td>'+json[i].photo+'</td></tr>')
		}  
	},
	error : function () {
		alert('errorrrrr');
	}
		});
		
		</script>

[{ "id": "1", "firstName": "Tom", "lastName": "Cruise", "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/735509975649378305/B81JwLT7.jpg" }, { "id": "2", "firstName": "Maria", "lastName": "Sharapova", "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3424509849/bfa1b9121afc39d1dcdb53cfc423bf12.jpeg" }, { "id": "3", "firstName": "James", "lastName": "Bond", "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/664886718559076352/M00cOLrh.jpg" }] `

URL url=new URL("www.example.com"); 

        URLConnection si=url.openConnection();
        InputStream is=si.getInputStream();
        String str="";
        int i;
        while((i=is.read())!=-1){  
            str +=str.valueOf((char)i);
            }

        str =str.replace("</string>", "");
        str=str.replace("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>", "");
        str = str.replace("<string xmlns=\"http://tempuri.org/\">", "");
        PrintWriter out=resp.getWriter();
        out.println(str);

`

Answer 6

If you specifically want to use SwingX-WS, then have a look at XmlHttpRequest and JSONHttpRequest.

More on those classes in the XMLHttpRequest and Swing blog post.