package lu.cct.profileproject;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import java.net.URL;

/**

* Created by Eddy C. Borera on 4/12/15.

* HTTPClient program for HTTP GET/POST

* request to get/post JSON data to

* a back end server.

*/

public class HttpClient

{

private URL main_url;

// ------------------------

// Overloading constructor

// ------------------------

public HttpClient(String url)

{

try {

main_url = new URL(url);

} catch (MalformedURLException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

}

// --------------------------

// Retrieve data using GET

// --------------------------

public String getData()

{

BufferedReader reader = null;

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

try {

HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) main_url.openConnection();

connection.setRequestMethod("GET");

reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));

String line;

while ( (line = reader.readLine()) != null) {

sb.append(line);

}

reader.close(); // closing the buffer

connection.disconnect();

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

return sb.toString();

}

// -------------------------

// Post JSON data to an URL

// -------------------------

public void postData()

{

}

// ------------------------

// Testing the class

// ------------------------

public static void main(String [] args)

{

HttpClient client = new HttpClient("http://66.147.235.233:3000/api/news");

System.out.println(client.getData());

}

}