Re: How to send a serializable object as the request body

[Michael Becke]

Sure, it would look something like the following:

        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        PostMethod post = new PostMethod(url);
        // buffer object to byte array
        ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);
        oos.writeObject(object);
        post.setRequestBody(new 
ByteArrayInputStream(bos.toByteArray()));

        try {
            client.executeMethod(post);
            ObjectInputStream in = new 
ObjectInputStream(post.getResponseBodyAsStream());
            Object result = in.readObject();
        } finally {
            post.releaseConnection();
        }

Mike

On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 11:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

We are in the process of replacing the URLConnection class with 
HttpClient.
Currently we send serialized objects to a servlet with something 
similar to
the following code snippet:

        URL url = URL(hostURL.getProtocol(),
                                 hostURL.getHost(),
                                 hostURL.getPort(),
                                 "/servlet/TestServlet");
        URLConnection httpURLConnection = url.openConnection();
        out = new
ObjectOutputStream(httpURLConnection.getRequestOutputStream());
	out.writeObject(serializedObject);

           out.flush();
        out.close()
	-------------------------- (Meanwhile in the server)

        The servlet reads the serializedObject from the InputStream of the
HttpServletRequest parameter and sends the response in the
        HttpServletResponse
        ---------------------------(Back in the client)
        
          in = new ObjectInputStream(
httpURLConnection.getResponseInputStream() );
         result = in.readObject();
        in.close();
I have tried to accomplish the same technique with HttpClient, but I 
have
been unsuccessful.  Is this possible with this library?

Thank You
Carlos R.
        
Carlos Javier Rivera Vazquez
Staff Engineer
GE Power Systems
Network Reliability Services
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