Convert Curl command into Java/Android

Question

I am developing two applications -

First one is web application using Spring MVC 3

And the second one is an Android application for same web application.

In both, I am integrating basic authentication to authenticate user on that site using the APIs.

In the API tutorial, following curl command is given to authenticate user -

$ curl -u username:password insert_Url_here -d '[xml body here]'

I am not getting, how to convert this command in Java and android code.

Please guide me. I am totally stuck here.

Answer 1

Using HttpClient 4, you will need to do the following:

• create the client:

CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();

• create the POST Request:

final HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(SAMPLE_URL);

• set the body of your POST request:

request.setEntity(new StringEntity("the body of the POST"));

• configure authentication (presumably Basic Auth):

UsernamePasswordCredentials creds = new UsernamePasswordCredentials(username, password);

postRequest.addHeader(new BasicScheme().authenticate(creds, request, null));

That's it - this is essentially what your curl command does.

Hope this helps.