SSE4E

URLConnection - Reference Documentation

Class implementing an URL connection to a resource. This class can be used to put, get, post or delete local and remote resources (CRUD operations).

Index of Methods

• URLConnection() constructor
• get()
• post()
• put()
• deleteResource()

Properties

Constructor

Prototype

URLConnection(String url)

Description

Arguments

Exceptions

Example

var cwd = GPSystem.mapFilename("urltest.dat", GPSystem.CWD);

var urlConnection = new URLConnection("file:" + cwd);

get()

Prototype

String get()

Description

Read from the resource the full content as string.

Return

Exceptions

Example

var page = urlConnection.get();
assert(page.equals("Hello World\n"));

post()

Prototype

String post(String str)

Description

Write the text to the resource and receive response.

Arguments

Return

Exceptions

Example

var url = "http://localhost:8081/scriptingservlet/";
var urlConnection = new URLConnection(url + "admin?restart");

var page = urlConnection.get();
print("GET:\n" + page);
print(urlConnection.responseCode + " - " + urlConnection.responseMessage);
print("ContentEncoding : " + urlConnection.contentEncoding);
print("ContentLength : " + urlConnection.contentLength);
print("ContentType : " + urlConnection.contentType);
print("Date : " + urlConnection.date);
print("Expiration : " + urlConnection.expiration);
print("Last Modified : " + urlConnection.lastModified);

assert(urlConnection.responseCode == 200);


var urlConnection = new URLConnection(url + "admin");

var script = "GPSystem.trace(\"Hello World\");\n";

var result = urlConnection.post(script);
print("POST:\n" + result);

var result = urlConnection.post(script);
print("POST:\n" + result);


var urlConnection = new URLConnection(url + "admin");

var page = urlConnection.get();
print("GET:\n" + page);

put()

Prototype

String put(String str)

Description

Write the text to the resource and receive response.

Arguments

Return

Exceptions

Example

var url = "http://localhost:8081/scriptingservlet/";
var urlConnection = new URLConnection(url + "admin?restart");

var page = urlConnection.get();
print("GET:\n" + page);


var urlConnection = new URLConnection(url + "admin");

var script = "GPSystem.trace(\"Hello World\");\n";

var result = urlConnection.put(script);
print("PUT:\n" + result);

var result = urlConnection.put(script);
print("PUT:\n" + result);


var urlConnection = new URLConnection(url + "admin");

var page = urlConnection.get();
print("GET:\n" + page);

deleteResource()

Prototype

void deleteResource()

Description

Delete the resource.

The delete operation only works for connections using HTTP.

The method is not named "delete" because delete is a reserved name in the Rhino JavaScript implementation.

Return

Exceptions

Example

var url = "http://localhost:8081/scriptingservlet/";

var urlConnection = new URLConnection(url + "admin");

urlConnection.deleteResource();

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