Get the Http response status using 'httpClient(postRequest,Handler)' method

Question

While looking around I've found this method:

String JSONResult = httpclient.execute(request,handler); 
//Request is an HttpPost object, handler is a ResponseHandler<String>

This method made things much easier for me, i can now get the JSON response coming from my server without all these inputStream BuffredReader .... story.

But the problem is that i can't get the HttpResponse Status now like if I'd Used :

HttpResponse Response = httpclient.execute(request);
Response.getStatusLine();

Is there any way to use the first method, and still be able to get the the Response status ?

Answer 1

Is there any way to use the first method, and still be able to get the the Response status?

No.

Here's what you do

HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
ResponseHandler handler = ...;
String JSONResult = handler.handleResponse(response);
StatusLine status = response.getStatusLine();

Now you have access to the status from the HttpResponse object and are able to process the response with a ResponseHandler to get the json result. The point of the different methods is that you don't really care about the status, only the handled response.

Answer 2

You can get the status and use EntityUtils save messing around with input streams and buffered readers.

HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
String json = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
int status = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode()