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Java read return result from URL
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/** | |
* This method returns the entire result from the HTTP response. | |
* | |
* See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/309424/read-convert-an-inputstream-to-a-string | |
* | |
* @param url The URL to fetch the HTTP response from. | |
* @return The contents of the HTTP response. | |
* @throws IOException Related to network and stream reading | |
*/ | |
public static String getResponseFromHttpUrl(URL url) throws IOException { | |
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); | |
try { | |
InputStream in = urlConnection.getInputStream(); | |
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(in); | |
scanner.useDelimiter("\\A"); | |
boolean hasInput = scanner.hasNext(); | |
if (hasInput) { | |
return scanner.next(); | |
} else { | |
return null; | |
} | |
} finally { | |
urlConnection.disconnect(); | |
} | |
} |
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