Apache HttpCpent - Http Get Request

The GET method is used to retrieve information from the given server using a given URI. Requests using GET should only retrieve data and should have no other effect on the data.

The HttpCpent API provides a class named HttpGet which represents the get request method.

Follow the steps given below to send a get request using HttpCpent pbrary

Step 1 - Create a HttpCpent object

The createDefault() method of the HttpCpents class returns a CloseableHttpCpent object, which is the base implementation of the HttpCpent interface.

Using this method, create an HttpCpent object as shown below −

CloseableHttpCpent httpcpent = HttpCpents.createDefault();

Step 2 - Create an HttpGet Object

The HttpGet class represents the HTTPGET request which retrieves the information of the given server using a URI.

Create a HTTP GET request by instantiating this class. The constructor of this class accepts a String value representing the URI.

HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://www.tutorialspoint.com/");

Step 3 - Execute the Get Request

The execute() method of the CloseableHttpCpent class accepts a HttpUriRequest (interface) object (i.e. HttpGet, HttpPost, HttpPut, HttpHead etc.) and returns a response object.

Execute the request using this method as shown below −

HttpResponse httpresponse = httpcpent.execute(httpget);

Example

Following is an example which demonstrates the execution of the HTTP GET request using HttpCpent pbrary.

import java.util.Scanner;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.cpent.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.cpent.CloseableHttpCpent;
import org.apache.http.impl.cpent.HttpCpents;

pubpc class HttpGetExample {
 
   pubpc static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
 
      //Creating a HttpCpent object
      CloseableHttpCpent httpcpent = HttpCpents.createDefault();

      //Creating a HttpGet object
      HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/ ");

      //Printing the method used
      System.out.println("Request Type: "+httpget.getMethod());

      //Executing the Get request
      HttpResponse httpresponse = httpcpent.execute(httpget);

      Scanner sc = new Scanner(httpresponse.getEntity().getContent());

      //Printing the status pne
      System.out.println(httpresponse.getStatusLine());
      while(sc.hasNext()) {
         System.out.println(sc.nextLine());
      }
   }
}

Output

The above program generates the following output −