If it is not possible to set post parameters in a request and set the body content in the same request, I will appreciate it if someone can advice me of an alternative.
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Mansour Al Akeel <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to post some json data going through this > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateJSON tutorial. > As the document shows, the following command should work, > > curl 'http://localhost:8983/solr/update/json?commit=true' > --data-binary @books.json -H 'Content-type:application/json' > > And it does. > However, doing it with HttpClient is a bit different. I need to post > JSON data from a string. Including the data requires that I create a > StringEntity. > However this leaves me with passing any additional parameters, through > the URL. So the only way I was able to get it to work, is by adding > the parameter (commit=true) > to the url as in the following code. > > private static String url = > "http://localhost:8080/solr/update/json?commit=true";; > @Override > public void index(ProductData product) { > HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); > HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url); > post.addHeader("Content-type", "application/json"); > String d = "[ { \"id\" : \"123\", \"name\" : \"My Product\" > } ]"; > try { > StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(d); > entity.setContentEncoding("UTF-8"); > entity.setChunked(true); > entity.setContentType("application/json"); > post.setEntity(entity); > HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(post); > System.out.println(response); > } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > } catch (ParseException e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > } catch (IOException e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > } > } > > I googled for this issue, and the closest I was able to find is > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2017414/post-multipart-request-with-android-sdk, > where the solution suggests using MultiPartEntity. > I am not sure if this is the only way. > So my question is, what do I need to do, to be able to able to set the > parameters on the post request ?? > > Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
