I’m trying to get the output from a servlet on an Android phone.
This is my servlet:
/*
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*/
package main;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
/**
*
* @author Bert Verhelst <verhelst_bert@hotmail.com>
*/
public class servlet1 extends HttpServlet {
/**
* Processes requests for both HTTP <code>GET</code> and <code>POST</code> methods.
* @param request servlet request
* @param response servlet response
* @throws ServletException if a servlet-specific error occurs
* @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
*/
protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Servlet servlet1</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<h1>processing...</h1>");
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
}
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="HttpServlet methods. Click on the + sign on the left to edit the code.">
/**
* Handles the HTTP <code>GET</code> method.
* @param request servlet request
* @param response servlet response
* @throws ServletException if a servlet-specific error occurs
* @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
*/
@Override
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
processRequest(request, response);
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 "
+ "Transitional//EN\">\n"
+ "<html>\n"
+ "<head><title>Hello WWW</title></head>\n"
+ "<body>\n"
+ "<h1>doget...</h1>\n"
+ "</body></html>");
}
/**
* Handles the HTTP <code>POST</code> method.
* @param request servlet request
* @param response servlet response
* @throws ServletException if a servlet-specific error occurs
* @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
*/
@Override
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
processRequest(request, response);
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 "
+ "Transitional//EN\">\n"
+ "<html>\n"
+ "<head><title>Hello WWW</title></head>\n"
+ "<body>\n"
+ "<h1>dopost...</h1>\n"
+ "</body></html>");
}
/**
* Returns a short description of the servlet.
* @return a String containing servlet description
*/
@Override
public String getServletInfo() {
return "Short description";
}// </editor-fold>
}
This is my Android main page:
package be.smarttelecom.MyTest;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class Main extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
TextView output = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.output);
try {
output.append("starting\n");
RestClient client = new RestClient("http://10.0.0.188:8084/Servlet_1/servlet1");
try {
client.Execute(RequestMethod.GET);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
output.append("after execute\n");
String response = client.getResponse();
output.append("class - " + response + "\n" );
output.append(response);
output.append("done\n");
}
catch (Exception ex) {
output.append("error: " + ex.getMessage() + "\n" + ex.toString() + "\n");
}
}
}
And finally we have the RestClient:
package be.smarttelecom.MyTest;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;
public class RestClient {
private ArrayList <NameValuePair> params;
private ArrayList <NameValuePair> headers;
private String url;
private int responseCode;
private String message;
private String response;
public String getResponse() {
return response;
}
public String getErrorMessage() {
return message;
}
public int getResponseCode() {
return responseCode;
}
public RestClient(String url)
{
this.url = url;
params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
headers = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
}
public void AddParam(String name, String value)
{
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair(name, value));
}
public void AddHeader(String name, String value)
{
headers.add(new BasicNameValuePair(name, value));
}
public void Execute(RequestMethod method) throws Exception
{
switch(method) {
case GET:
{
//add parameters
String combinedParams = "";
if(!params.isEmpty()){
combinedParams += "?";
for(NameValuePair p : params)
{
String paramString = p.getName() + "=" + p.getValue();
if(combinedParams.length() > 1)
{
combinedParams += "&" + paramString;
}
else
{
combinedParams += paramString;
}
}
}
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url + combinedParams);
//add headers
for(NameValuePair h : headers)
{
request.addHeader(h.getName(), h.getValue());
}
executeRequest(request, url);
break;
}
case POST:
{
HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url);
//add headers
for(NameValuePair h : headers)
{
request.addHeader(h.getName(), h.getValue());
}
if(!params.isEmpty()){
request.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params, HTTP.UTF_8));
}
executeRequest(request, url);
break;
}
}
}
private void executeRequest(HttpUriRequest request, String url)
{
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse httpResponse;
try {
httpResponse = client.execute(request);
responseCode = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
message = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getReasonPhrase();
HttpEntity entity = httpResponse.getEntity();
if (entity != null) {
InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
response = convertStreamToString(instream);
// Closing the input stream will trigger connection release
instream.close();
}
}
catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
client.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
client.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
try {
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
finally {
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return sb.toString();
}
}
Unfortunately this doesn’t work. Here is what I get for output (null),
What am I doing wrong?
I request the DoGet method of my servlet and convert the output to a string, but it appears to be empty.
I allowed the Internet connection in the manifest file just after the closing bracket of application,
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
Romain Hippeau wrote in a comment:
That was the problem! I disabled my firewall and now it works 🙂