(Android™) curl with Path Variables and Query Param Variables

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Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.5.0 or greater.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    // Variables can occur in the path and query params.  
    // Variable names are enclosed between {{ and }}

    //  curl -X GET https://httpbin.org/{{verb}}?id={id_value}}
    String targetCurl = "curl -X GET https://httpbin.org/{{verb}}?id={{id_value}}";

    CkHttpCurl httpCurl = new CkHttpCurl();

    // Provide values for variables.
    // In this example, "verb" is a path variable, and "id_value" is a query param variable.
    httpCurl.SetVar("verb","get");
    httpCurl.SetVar("id_value","123");

    // Run the curl command.
    success = httpCurl.DoYourThing(targetCurl);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, httpCurl.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    CkJsonObject responseJson = new CkJsonObject();
    responseJson.put_EmitCompact(false);

    int statusCode = httpCurl.get_StatusCode();
    Log.i(TAG, "response status code: " + String.valueOf(statusCode));

    httpCurl.GetResponseJson(responseJson);
    Log.i(TAG, responseJson.emit());

    // Output:

    // response status code: 200
    // {
    //   "args": {
    //     "id": "123"
    //   },
    //   "headers": {
    //     "Host": "httpbin.org",
    //     "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-69e92914-5d4136d240f2f7fe1056f126"
    //   },
    //   "origin": "222.222.222.222",
    //   "url": "https://httpbin.org/get?id=123"
    // }

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}