Http Get using Android HttpURLConnection

I have created with callBack(delegate) response to Activity class.

public class WebService extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {

    private Context mContext;
    private OnTaskDoneListener onTaskDoneListener;
    private String urlStr = "";

    public WebService(Context context, String url, OnTaskDoneListener onTaskDoneListener) {
        this.mContext = context;
        this.urlStr = url;
        this.onTaskDoneListener = onTaskDoneListener;
    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
        try {

            URL mUrl = new URL(urlStr);
            HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) mUrl.openConnection();
            httpConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
            httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-length", "0");
            httpConnection.setUseCaches(false);
            httpConnection.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
            httpConnection.setConnectTimeout(100000);
            httpConnection.setReadTimeout(100000);

            httpConnection.connect();

            int responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();

            if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(httpConnection.getInputStream()));
                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                String line;
                while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                    sb.append(line + "\n");
                }
                br.close();
                return sb.toString();
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String s) {
        super.onPostExecute(s);

        if (onTaskDoneListener != null && s != null) {
            onTaskDoneListener.onTaskDone(s);
        } else
            onTaskDoneListener.onError();
    }
}

where

public interface OnTaskDoneListener {
    void onTaskDone(String responseData);

    void onError();
}

You can modify according to your needs. It's for get

Try getting the input stream from this you can then get the text data as so:-

    URL url;
    HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
    try {
        url = new URL("http://www.mysite.se/index.asp?data=99");

        urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url
                .openConnection();

        InputStream in = urlConnection.getInputStream();

        InputStreamReader isw = new InputStreamReader(in);

        int data = isw.read();
        while (data != -1) {
            char current = (char) data;
            data = isw.read();
            System.out.print(current);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        if (urlConnection != null) {
            urlConnection.disconnect();
        }    
    }

You can probably use other inputstream readers such as buffered reader also.

The problem is that when you open the connection - it does not 'pull' any data.

If you just need a very simple call, you can use URL directly:

import java.net.URL;

    new URL("http://wheredatapp.com").openStream();

Here is a complete AsyncTask class

public class GetMethodDemo extends AsyncTask<String , Void ,String> {
    String server_response;

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... strings) {

        URL url;
        HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;

        try {
            url = new URL(strings[0]);
            urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

            int responseCode = urlConnection.getResponseCode();

            if(responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK){
                server_response = readStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
                Log.v("CatalogClient", server_response);
            }

        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String s) {
        super.onPostExecute(s);

        Log.e("Response", "" + server_response);


    }
}

// Converting InputStream to String

private String readStream(InputStream in) {
        BufferedReader reader = null;
        StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
        try {
            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
            String line = "";
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                response.append(line);
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            if (reader != null) {
                try {
                    reader.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }
        return response.toString();
    }

To Call this AsyncTask class

new GetMethodDemo().execute("your web-service url");