How to release connection with HttpClient 4.0 api ?

[Brijesh Deo]

Hi,

 

I am trying to port my earlier code which used HttpClient 3.1 to now use
HttpClient 4.0. I am trying to find out a corresponding method with 4.0
to gracefully release a connection as it was being done with the 3.1
api.

 

With HC 3.1:

GetMethod method = new GetMethod("/someURL");

//execute the method using the HttpClient instance

//and then finally release the connection as shown below.

method.releaseConnection();

 

 

With HC 4.0:

HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("/someURL");

//execute the method using the HttpClient instance

HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpget);

 

How to release the connection gracefully?

I don't want to call the abort() method on the httpGet instance.

 

Is it sufficient to call the consumeContect() to release a connection
gracefully?

HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

If (entity != null) {

            entity.consumeContent();

}

 

 

Please let me know if there is a better and more efficient way to do it.
I have also tried to get the underlying inputstream from the response
entity and calling a close() on that but it's resulting in a
SocketException from other parts in my code.

 

Thanks,

Brijesh