Android: How to programmatically submit a form created as html string?

Question

Please help me how can i invoke a submit action after loading this html.

WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);        
String formData = "<!DOCTYPE html>\n" +
            "<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">\n" +
            "<head>\n" +
            "<title>SSO OutBound Settings</title>" +
            "</head>\n" +
            "<body>" +
            "<form name='frmMain' id=\"frmMain\" runat='server' method='POST'" +
            "action='" + ---data--- + "'>" +
            "<input type='hidden' name='" + ---data--- + "'" +
            "value='" + ---data--- + "'/>" +
            "<input type='hidden' runat='server' name='" + ---data--- + "' " +
            "value='" + ---data--- + "'/>" +
            "</form>" +
            "</body>\n" +
            "</html>";
webView.loadData(formData, "text/html", "UTF-8");

You immediately want to submit the form, without any user interaction? — tknell, Mar 17 '16 at 14:24
@DineshKumar if you get the solution for this , please let me know i have also the same problem — Deepak Rana, Oct 10 '18 at 07:42

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '16 at 09:35

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I think you'd need to do this in javascript. So it would have to be enabled for your web view:

webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

Submitting the form should be something like:

webView.loadUrl("javascript:document.frmMain.submit()");

answered May 16 '16 at 09:35

wamfous

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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You may use an http client for that - Android HttpURLConnection, Apache httpclient, Volley etc. The idea is to send http POST with form data to requred resource. See Sending POST data in Android

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered Mar 17 '16 at 14:47

Alexey

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Android: How to programmatically submit a form created as html string?

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