Question

I wish to append a List<Beans> in a HTTP Post request.

While making use of Apache HTTPClient, I am unable to do the same.

This is what I wish to do:

List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(1);

nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("dailySalesList",beanList));

post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));

However, the BasicNameValuePair seems to take only 2 Strings as argument. I wish to utilize it so that I can use a String – for identification and Object – to pass a List.
Basically a functionality similar to using a Map.

Any pointers on how it can be done using Apache HTTPClient ?

Answer 1

Thanks Kiyura for pointing me in the right direction, to make use of JSON.

I made use of the GSON java library for conversion from List to JSON representation.

Its a pretty library in case you want to use JSON without manually converting Generic Types.

The gson doc is also a good reference.