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This example you’ll learn how to get file’s basic attributes. Basic file attributes are attributes that are common to many file systems and consist of mandatory and optional file attributes as defined by the BasicFileAttributes interface. The file’s basic attributes include file’s date time information such as the creation time, last access time, last modified […]
In this code snippet you’ll learn how to reverse the order of array elements. To reverse to element order will be using the Collections.reverse() method. This method requires an argument with List type. Because of this we need to convert the array to a List type first. We can use the Arrays.asList() to do the […]
The following code snippet will show you how to send an HTTP post request using the Apache HttpComponents. We will send a post request to https://httpbin.org/post, with some parameters to the request using the NameValuePair object. To pass these parameters to the HTTP post request we create an instance of UrlEncodedFormEntity and pass a list […]
This example show you how to get HTTP response body as a string when using the Apache HttpComponents library. To get the response body as a string we can use the EntityUtils.toString() method. This method read the content of an HttpEntity object content and return it as a string. The content will be converted using […]
This code snippet show you how to get the content-type of an HTTP Get request. The ContentType can be obtained by using ContentType.getOrDefault() method and passing an HttpEntity as the argument. The HttpEntity can be obtained from the HttpResponse object. From the ContentType object we can get the mime-type by calling the getMimeType() method. This […]
Below is an example using HttpClient library to retrieve the response of HTTP GET request. We start by creating an instance of CloseableHttpClient class. We then define an HTTP GET request by create an instance of HttpGet class and specify the Url of a website we are going to retrieve. To execute the request we […]
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