Use URLConnection instead of HttpClient in android studio - mysql

Question

Is there any way to convert this code into URLCOnnection instead of using Httpclient ? Im using API23 and HTTP CLient is not supported anymore. I have a hard time using URLCOnnection because almost all the tutorials uses HttpClient for connection. thanks
public class SigninActivity extends AsyncTask<String,Void,String>{
private TextView statusField,roleField;
private Context context;
private int byGetOrPost = 0;
//flag 0 means get and 1 means post.(By default it is get.)
public SigninActivity(Context context,TextView statusField,TextView roleField,int flag) {
this.context = context;
this.statusField = statusField;
this.roleField = roleField;
byGetOrPost = flag;
}
protected void onPreExecute(){
}
#Override
protected String doInBackground(String... arg0) {
if(byGetOrPost == 0){ //means by Get Method
try{
String username = (String)arg0[0];
String password = (String)arg0[1];
String link = "http://myphpmysqlweb.hostei.com/login.php?username="+username+"& password="+password;
URL url = new URL(link);
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet();
request.setURI(new URI(link));
HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()));
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");
String line="";
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
break;
}
in.close();
return sb.toString();
}
catch(Exception e){
return new String("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
}
}
else{
try{
String username = (String)arg0[0];
String password = (String)arg0[1];
String link="http://myphpmysqlweb.hostei.com/loginpost.php";
String data = URLEncoder.encode("username", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(username, "UTF-8");
data += "&" + URLEncoder.encode("password", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode(password, "UTF-8");
URL url = new URL(link);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write( data );
wr.flush();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
// Read Server Response
while((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
{
sb.append(line);
break;
}
return sb.toString();
}
catch(Exception e){
return new String("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
}
}
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result){
this.statusField.setText("Login Successful");
this.roleField.setText(result);
}
}

Answer 1

This is the basic format for URLConnection that I merged from some working code of mine with yours. If you fill in your code where I've specified, it should work.
//-------------------
String username = (String)arg0[0];
String password = (String)arg0[1];
String link = "http://myphpmysqlweb.hostei.com/login.php?username="+username+"& password="+password;
InputStream is = null;
try {
URL url = new URL(link);
URLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
is = urlConnection.getInputStream();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
//FILL IN YOUR CODE HERE!
//FILL IN YOUR CODE HERE!
} catch(Exception e){
return new String("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
}
//-------------------