Question

I am getting a couple errors I cannot seem to fix… This is example code, so I’m confused what’s going on. The error’s are commented to the side of the lines where they show up.

import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.URLEncoder;


public class Connect {
    URL url;
    URLConnection urlConnection;
    DataOutputStream outStream;
    DataInputStream inStream;

    // Build request body
    String body = "fname=" + URLEncoder.encode("Atli", "UTF-8"); //Syntax error on token ";", { expected after this token


    // Create connection
    url = new URL("http://192.168.1.68/test/POST/post.php");
    urlConnection = url.openConnection();
    ((HttpURLConnection)urlConnection).setRequestMethod("POST");
    urlConnection.setDoInput(true);
    urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
    urlConnection.setUseCaches(false);
    urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", ""+ body.length());

    // Create I/O streams
    outStream = new DataOutputStream(urlConnection.getOutputStream());
    inStream = new DataInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());

    // Send request
    outStream.writeBytes(body);
    outStream.flush();
    outStream.close();

    // Get Response
    // - For debugging purposes only!
    String buffer;
    while((buffer = inStream.readLine()) != null) {
        System.out.println(buffer);
    }

    // Close I/O streams
    inStream.close();
    outStream.close();

}

giving an error of:

Syntax error, insert "}" to complete ClassBody

Anybody see something obvious that I don’t?

On a side note, if the php echoes back html code, upon running this class, is java capable of understanding the html code?

Answer 1

You can’t put code directly in the class body – you have to wrap it inside a member function.

If this is intended to be a standalone program that member function should be:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    ...
}