Http Post with Blackberry 6.0 issue - json

Question

I am trying to post some data to our webservice(written in c#) and get the response. The response is in JSON format.
I am using the Blackberry Code Sample which is BlockingSenderDestination Sample. When I request a page it returns with no problem. But when I send my data to our webservice it does not return anything.
The code part that I added is :
ByteMessage myMsg = bsd.createByteMessage();
//myMsg.setStringPayload("I love my BlackBerry device!");
myMsg.setMessageProperty("querytpe","myspecialkey");//here is my post data
myMsg.setMessageProperty("uname","myusername");
myMsg.setMessageProperty("pass","password");
((HttpMessage) myMsg).setMethod(HttpMessage.POST);
// Send message and wait for response myMsg
response = bsd.sendReceive(myMsg);
What am i doing wrong? And what is the alternatives or more efficients way to do Post with Blackberry.
Regards.
Here is my whole code:
class BlockingSenderSample extends MainScreen implements FieldChangeListener {
ButtonField _btnBlock = new ButtonField(Field.FIELD_HCENTER);
private static UiApplication _app = UiApplication.getUiApplication();
private String _result;
public BlockingSenderSample()
{
_btnBlock.setChangeListener(this);
_btnBlock.setLabel("Fetch page");
add(_btnBlock);
}
public void fieldChanged(Field button, int unused)
{
if(button == _btnBlock)
{
Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
Message response = null;
String uriStr = "http://192.168.1.250/mobileServiceOrjinal.aspx"; //our webservice address
//String uriStr = "http://www.blackberry.com";
BlockingSenderDestination bsd = null;
try
{
bsd = (BlockingSenderDestination)
DestinationFactory.getSenderDestination
("name", URI.create(uriStr));//name for context is name. is it true?
if(bsd == null)
{
bsd =
DestinationFactory.createBlockingSenderDestination
(new Context("ender"),
URI.create(uriStr)
);
}
//Dialog.inform( "1" );
ByteMessage myMsg = bsd.createByteMessage();
//myMsg.setStringPayload("I love my BlackBerry device!");
myMsg.setMessageProperty("querytpe","myspecialkey");//here is my post data
myMsg.setMessageProperty("uname","myusername");
myMsg.setMessageProperty("pass","password");
((HttpMessage) myMsg).setMethod(HttpMessage.POST);
// Send message and wait for response myMsg
response = bsd.sendReceive(myMsg);
if(response != null)
{
BSDResponse(response);
}
}
catch(Exception e)
{
//Dialog.inform( "ex" );
// process the error
}
finally
{
if(bsd != null)
{
bsd.release();
}
}
}
});
t.start();
}
}
private void BSDResponse(Message msg)
{
if (msg instanceof ByteMessage)
{
ByteMessage reply = (ByteMessage) msg;
_result = (String) reply.getStringPayload();
} else if(msg instanceof StreamMessage)
{
StreamMessage reply = (StreamMessage) msg;
InputStream is = reply.getStreamPayload();
byte[] data = null;
try {
data = net.rim.device.api.io.IOUtilities.streamToBytes(is);
} catch (IOException e) {
// process the error
}
if(data != null)
{
_result = new String(data);
}
}
_app.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
_app.pushScreen(new HTTPOutputScreen(_result));
}
});
}
}
..
class HTTPOutputScreen extends MainScreen
{
RichTextField _rtfOutput = new RichTextField();
public HTTPOutputScreen(String message)
{
_rtfOutput.setText("Retrieving data. Please wait...");
add(_rtfOutput);
showContents(message);
}
// After the data has been retrieved, display it
public void showContents(final String result)
{
UiApplication.getUiApplication().invokeLater(new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
_rtfOutput.setText(result);
}
});
}
}

Answer 1

HttpMessage does not extend ByteMessage so when you do:
((HttpMessage) myMsg).setMethod(HttpMessage.POST);
it throws a ClassCastException. Here's a rough outline of what I would do instead. Note that this is just example code, I'm ignoring exceptions and such.
//Note: the URL will need to be appended with appropriate connection settings
HttpConnection httpConn = (HttpConnection) Connector.open(url);
httpConn.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.POST);
OutputStream out = httpConn.openOutputStream();
out.write(<YOUR DATA HERE>);
out.flush();
out.close();
InputStream in = httpConn.openInputStream();
//Read in the input stream if you want to get the response from the server
if(httpConn.getResponseCode() != HttpConnection.OK)
{
//Do error handling here.
}