Question

I want to upload some data from an Android application to Pachube.

[Update: For people reading this in 2013, “Pachube” became “Cosm”, which is now “Xively”.]

This hurl is provided by their documentation as an example.

How can I achieve this with Android’s implementation of HttpPut (or HttpPost)?

I don’t really want to have to add any extra libraries, as I want to keep the application as small as possible.

I already have a JSONObject with my data in it.

Answer 1

Here is some pseudocode. Note that you shouldn’t send form url encoded data in a PUT request, as it may break server side OAuth (if being used):

HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPut put = new HttpPut(url);
put.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
put.addHeader("Accept", "application/json");
put.setEntity(new StringEntity(jsonObj.writeValue()));
HttpResponse response = client.execute(put);