Android HttpUrlConnection response object

Question

Hey i'm using HttpUrlConnection in my app. And it's seems to me that every time when I'm making call as .getInputStream() or urlConnection.getResponseCode() etc it makes another request, so it is not good for me, when i'm making POST request. Is there a way to get some kind of response object which encapsulates response data and can be accessible from UI thread, something like this:

private class RegisterAsync extends AsyncTask<String, Void, HttpResponse> {

        protected String doInBackground(String... strings) {
            HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
            String message = null;
            try {
                URL url = new URL(REGISTER_URL);
                urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
                urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
                urlConnection.setChunkedStreamingMode(0);
                OutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(urlConnection.getOutputStream());
                out.write(strings[0].getBytes("UTF-8"));
                out.flush();
                out.close();
                HttpResponse response = urlConnection.getResponse();
            } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } finally {
                urlConnection.disconnect();
            }
            return Response;
        }

        protected void onPostExecute(HttpResponse response) {
            //Do some with response object: get status, headers, content etc?
        }
    }

you can access the response in `onpostExecute` which is invoked on ui thread — Raghunandan, Jun 25 '13 at 09:23
Yes, i'm talking about is there an object like HttpResponse? HttpUrlConnection hasn't method called getResponse() — Vadym Kovalenko, Jun 25 '13 at 09:27
Have a look here, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10684086/getting-the-response-body-of-httpresponse — QVDev, Jun 25 '13 at 09:29
Thanks, but I'm using HttpUrlConnection, not an Apache HttpComponents — Vadym Kovalenko, Jun 25 '13 at 09:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 25 '13 at 15:13

you can do the following steps:

Create the webservice call in a singleton class
Parse the response and encapsulate it in a custom object(made by you) and save the parsed object into the singleton as instance object.
After this, you can simply send a broadcast message to your activity to let it know that the parsed data is available in the singleton
the onReceive() method of BroadcastReceiver runs on UI thread so you can quickly update your UI there..

After you implement that you can simply call the singleton webservice call method from your activity right after you register to the intent that will be sent from the singleton...

Android HttpUrlConnection response object

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