Question

I have done raw rest get and post and also could do post in namevaluepair but no matter which tutorial i follow i just cant get json post done …

Android Application:

ArrayList<String> stringData = new ArrayList<String>();
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost postMethod = new HttpPost("http://192.168.1.10/people.php");     

JSONObject holder = new JSONObject();
holder.put("name", "Foo");    
holder.put("occupation", "Bar");

StringEntity se = new StringEntity(holder.toString());
postMethod.setEntity(se);
postMethod.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
postMethod.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");

ResponseHandler <String> resonseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
String response=httpClient.execute(postMethod,resonseHandler); 
stringData.add(response);

return stringData;

PHP file:

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {

 var_dump($_POST);
}

the var_dump just gives an empty array and $_POST[“name”] gives undefined index … any help would be nice

Answer 1

Have you tried to ship the holder.toString() with BasicNameValuePair class?

Like

ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("myjson", holder.toString());
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs)); 

then just in your php you get it like

$jsonstring = $_REQUEST['myjson'];