How to POST XML/JSON???

[mustafa01ali]

I've run into a problem with POSTing data. I have to post data to the API in the following format: -

\<request\>
  \<notes\>Test api support\</notes\>
  \<hours\>3\</hours\>
  \<project_id type="integer"\>3\</project_id\>
\</request\>

As per the documentation, I tried doing it using RequestParams, but it is failing. Is this any other way to do it? I can POST equivalent JSON too. Any ideas?

[trippedout]

i believe if you just write your xml or json to a string and send to server, with proper headers or without, your server should be able to decode the string back into the proper format

[mustafa01ali]

Thanks for replying.

I have to send this as the POST body, so which header should I use?

[trippedout]

should probably only need to set "Content-Type" to "application/json" but im no expert :)

[voidberg]

Here's an example:

// params is a JSONObject
StringEntity se = null;
try {
  se = new StringEntity(params.toString());
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
  return;
}
se.setContentType(new BasicHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json"));

client.post(null, getAbsoluteUrl(url), se, "application/json", responseHandler);

[smarek]

Closing with related referenced issue. using StringEntity is correct way to handle such situations.

[shabbir-dhangot]

But What if I want to pass xml in body. @voidberg can you post some snippet regarding xml