/**
* Yahoo! Web Services Example: search API via GET
*
* @author Daniel Jones www.danieljones.org
* Copyright 2007 Daniel Jones
*
* This example illustrates how to perform a web service request via HTTP GET.
* See the YahooWebServicePost example if you are interested in an example of
* how to perform a web service request via POST.
*
*/
import java.io.*;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*;
public class YahooWebServiceGet {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String request = "http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/V1/webSearch?appid=YahooDemo&query=umbrella&results=10";
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
GetMethod method = new GetMethod(request);
// Send GET request
int statusCode = client.executeMethod(method);
if (statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
System.err.println("Method failed: " + method.getStatusLine());
}
InputStream rstream = null;
// Get the response body
rstream = method.getResponseBodyAsStream();
// Process the response from Yahoo! Web Services
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(rstream));
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
br.close();
}
}