HttpPostSender.java

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package us.mn.state.health.lims.dataexchange.common;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.RequestEntity;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.StringRequestEntity;
import org.apache.commons.validator.GenericValidator;

import us.mn.state.health.lims.common.log.LogEvent;

public class HttpPostSender extends HttpSender {

	@Override
	public boolean sendMessage() {
	
		errors = new ArrayList<String>();
		
		if (GenericValidator.isBlankOrNull(message) || GenericValidator.isBlankOrNull(url)) {
			LogEvent.logWarn("HttpPutSender", "send message", "The " + message == null ? " message " : "url" + " is null"  );
			errors.add("send message The " + (message == null ? " message " : "url") + " is null"  );
			errors.add("Application not configured correctly for sending results");
			return false;
		}
	
		HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
		setTimeout(httpclient);
	
		PostMethod httpPost = new PostMethod( url );
		
		RequestEntity requestEntity = null;
		try {
			requestEntity = new StringRequestEntity(message, "text/plain", "UTF-8");
		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
			e1.printStackTrace();
		}
	
		httpPost.setRequestEntity(requestEntity);
	
		sendByHttp(httpclient, httpPost);
	
		return returnStatus == HttpStatus.SC_OK;	
	}

}