This example show you how to get HTTP response body as a string when using the Apache HttpComponents library. To get the response body as a string we can use the EntityUtils.toString()
method. This method read the content of an HttpEntity
object content and return it as a string. The content will be converted using the character set from the entity object.
Let’s see the code snippet below:
package org.kodejava.apache.http;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import java.io.IOException;
public class EntityAsString {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build()) {
HttpGet request = new HttpGet("https://kodejava.org");
HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
// Read the contents of an entity and return it as a String.
String content = EntityUtils.toString(entity);
System.out.println(content);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Maven Dependencies
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
<version>4.5.14</version>
</dependency>