Java 11 and 12 – New Features

Posting form details

Imagine that you want to post the details of a form to a web application or web service programmatically. You can do so by sending a POST request, using the HTTP Client API. The following code uses the send() method from HttpClient to post a set of parameter names and values to a server. The parameter names and their values are stored as a String value:

public class HttpReqPost { 
    public static void main(String uri[]) throws Exception { 
        String postData = "?        name='Mala'&email='info@ejavaguru @gmail.com'"; HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient(); HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder() .uri(URI.create("http://www.ejavaguru.com/Java11/register.php")) .POST(BodyPublishers.ofString(postData)) .build(); HttpResponse<?> ...