(Android™) QuickRequest Method - GET and DELETE

Demonstrate the QuickRequest method for sending HTTP requests that don't have a request body, such as for GET or DELETE requests.

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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);

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    // Specifiy a session log file so we can see the exact request/response
    http.put_SessionLogFilename("c:/aaworkarea/sessionLog.txt");

    // Perhaps add a custom header or two..
    http.SetRequestHeader("x-exz-date","20201012T235046Z");
    http.SetRequestHeader("x-exz-id","1234");

    // Send a GET request to https://www.example.com/someting?param1=123&param2=abc
    String url = "https://www.example.com/someting?param1=123&param2=abc";
    CkHttpResponse resp = http.QuickRequest("GET",url);
    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // The GET request that is sent looks like this.
    // The Accept and Accept-Encoding headers are automatically added by default.

    // 	GET /someting?param1=123&param2=abc HTTP/1.1
    // 	Host: www.example.com
    // 	Accept: */*
    // 	Accept-Encoding: gzip
    // 	x-exz-date: 20201012T235046Z
    // 	x-exz-id: 1234

    // Get the response status
    int statusCode = resp.get_StatusCode();
    Log.i(TAG, "Response status: " + String.valueOf(statusCode));

    // Get the response body
    Log.i(TAG, resp.bodyStr());

    // -------------------------------------------------------------
    // Let's say we want to send a DELETE request, and we only want to accept an application/json response,
    // and we don't want gzipped responses...

    // First remove the previously specified custom headers.
    http.ClearHeaders();

    // Indicate we only accept application/json non-gzipped responses.
    http.put_Accept("application/json");
    http.put_AllowGzip(false);

    // Send a DELETE request to https://www.example.com/deleteSomething
    url = "https://www.example.com/deleteSomething";
    resp = http.QuickRequest("DELETE",url);
    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // The DELETE request that is sent looks like this.
    // The empty Accept-Encoding header value means we only want non-compressed responses.

    // 	DELETE /deleteSomething HTTP/1.1
    // 	Host: www.example.com
    // 	Accept: application/json
    // 	Accept-Encoding: 

    // Get the response status
    statusCode = resp.get_StatusCode();
    Log.i(TAG, "Response status: " + String.valueOf(statusCode));

    // Get the response body
    Log.i(TAG, resp.bodyStr());


  }

  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."
  }
}