If the server will only accept one body part then you are stuck.. You can only send the json body part or the form url encoded body part. You can't mix them.. (I guess you could if you were writing the server software, but that is an aside...)
If the server would accept multi-part you would just create a multi-part entity, add a string entity with the form url encoded part and another string entity with the json part and do the post. Sorry not much help. On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mansour Al Akeel <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > I appreciate your response. > No, the server doesn't accept multi form data so it's won't work. The > reason I am trying to avoid parameters in the URL is because, > I have a different request that I need to construct with more > parameters. So having something like > > if (condition 1) > url = url+"param1=" + val1 > if (condition 2) > url = url + "param2" + val 2 > else .... > .. > > It works, but not sure if there's a better way. Plus, with POST we > usually set the param in the body and not in the URL. > > I want to use StringEntity to construct the body of the request, but > then I can not set any additional parameters using some thing like: > > List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(1); > nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("commit", "true")); > post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs)); > > So I have to set only of them, Either use StringEntity to set the body > of the message, or use UrlEncodedFormEntity. > If I have some complex parameters to be constructed, then I can not > use UrlEncodedFormEntity, and will have to do it > the manual way through appending to the url. > > I hope this clarifies the issue. > > Thank you. > > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:44 AM, David Motes <[email protected]> wrote: >> The curl example using the url curl >> 'http://localhost:8983/solr/update/json?commit=true' >> and the HttpClient code using the url String url = >> "http://localhost:8080/solr/update/json?commit=true";; >> >> are doing the same thing.. >> >> Why is it a problem using this url in the HttpClient code? >> Do you not want to use the StringEntity? >> Will your server accept multipart post data? >> >> Some more info will help.. >> >> 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] >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
