How do I add query string to HttpMethod object?

To send query string information in HTTP GET command you either using passing a simple string or an array of NameValuePair object into the HttpMethod‘s setQueryString() method. We also need to encode the parameter values before passing it to the method.

package org.kodejava.commons.httpclient;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.util.URIUtil;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;

import java.io.IOException;

public class SendingQueryParameter {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        HttpMethod method = new GetMethod("http://localhost:8080/hello.jsp");

        try {
            // Set query string information for accessing the page using a
            // simple string information.
            method.setQueryString(URIUtil.encodeQuery("catid=10&page=1"));
            client.executeMethod(method);

            // Other cleaner alternative is to use the NameValuePair object to
            // define the parameters for an HTTP GET method.
            NameValuePair param1 = new NameValuePair("catid", URIUtil.encodeQuery("20"));
            NameValuePair param2 = new NameValuePair("page", URIUtil.encodeQuery("2"));
            NameValuePair[] params = new NameValuePair[]{param1, param2};
            method.setQueryString(params);
            client.executeMethod(method);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            method.releaseConnection();
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
    <version>3.1</version>
</dependency>

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Wayan

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