I would like to run this specific curl command with a HTTP
POST
request in java
curl --location --request POST "http://106.51.58.118:5000/compare_faces?face_det=1" \
--header "user_id: myid" \
--header "user_key: thekey" \
--form "img_1=https://cdn.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2018/03/08/658858-577200-katrina-kaif-052217.jpg" \
--form "img_2=https://cdn.somethinghaute.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/katrina-kaif.jpg"
I only know how to make simple POST
requests by passing a JSON
object, But i've never tried to POST
based on the above curl
command.
Here is a POST
example that I've made based on this curl
command:
curl -X POST TheUrl/sendEmail
-H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
-d '{"emailFrom": "[email protected]", "emailTo":
["[email protected]"], "emailSubject": "Test email", "emailBody":
"708568", "generateQRcode": true}' -k
Here is how i did it using java
public void sendEmail(String url) {
try {
URL obj = new URL(url);
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
//add reuqest header
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json; utf-8");
con.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
con.setDoOutput(true);
// Send post request
JSONObject test = new JSONObject();
test.put("emailFrom", emailFrom);
test.put("emailTo", emailTo);
test.put("emailSubject", emailSubject);
test.put("emailBody", emailBody);
test.put("generateQRcode", generateQRcode);
String jsonInputString = test.toString();
System.out.println(jsonInputString);
System.out.println("Email Response:" + returnResponse(con, jsonInputString));
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
System.out.println("Mail sent");
}
public String returnResponse(HttpURLConnection con, String jsonInputString) {
try (OutputStream os = con.getOutputStream()) {
byte[] input = jsonInputString.getBytes("utf-8");
os.write(input, 0, input.length);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream(), "utf-8"))) {
StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();
String responseLine = null;
while ((responseLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
response.append(responseLine.trim());
}
return response.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Couldnt read response from URL");
System.out.println(e);
return null;
}
}
I've found this useful link but i can't really understand how to use it in my example.
Is it any different from my example? and if yes how can i POST
the following data?
Note: Required Data
HEADERS:
user_id myid
user_key mykey
PARAMS:
face_det 1
boxes 120,150,200,250 (this is optional)
BODY:
img_1
multipart/base64 encoded image or remote url of image
img_2
multipart/base64 encoded image or remote url of image
Here is the complete documentation of the API
There are four things that your HttpURLConnection needs:
- The request method. You can set this with setRequestMethod.
- The headers. You can set them with setRequestProperty.
- The content type. The HTML specification requires that an HTTP request containing a form submission have
application/x-www-form-urlencoded
(ormultipart/form-data
) as its body’s content type. This is done by setting theContent-Type
header using thesetRequestProperty
method, just like the other headers. - The body itself needs to URL-encoded, as the content type indicates. The URLEncoder class exists for this purpose.
Those four steps look like this:
String img1 = "https://cdn.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2018/03/08/658858-577200-katrina-kaif-052217.jpg";
String img2 = "https://cdn.somethinghaute.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/katrina-kaif.jpg";
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.setDoOutput(true);
con.setRequestProperty("user_id", myid);
con.setRequestProperty("user_key", thekey);
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
String body =
"img_1=" + URLEncoder.encode(img1, "UTF-8") + "&" +
"img_2=" + URLEncoder.encode(img2, "UTF-8");
try (OutputStream os = con.getOutputStream()) {
byte[] input = body.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
os.write(input);
}
You should remove all catch
blocks from your code, and amend your method signatures to include throws IOException
. You don’t want users of your application to think the operation was successful if in fact it failed, right?