How to print out returned message from HttpResponse?

Question

Hi

I have this code on my Android phone.

   URI uri = new URI(url);
   HttpPost post = new HttpPost(uri);
   HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
   HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);

I have a asp.net webform application that has in the page load this

 Response.Output.Write("It worked");

I want to grab this Response from the HttpReponse and print it out. How do I do this?

I tried response.getEntity().toString() but it just seems to print out the address in memory.

Thanks

Answer 1

Use ResponseHandler. One line of code. See here and here for sample Android projects using it.

Answer 2

I would just do it the old way. It's a more bulletproof than ResponseHandler, in case you get different content types in the response.

ByteArrayOutputStream outstream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
response.getEntity().writeTo(outstream);
byte [] responseBody = outstream.toByteArray();