The GET method is used to retrieve information from the given server using a given URI. Requests using GET should only retrieve data and should have no other effect on the data.
The HttpClient API provides a class named HttpGet which represents the get request method.
Follow the steps given below to send a get request using HttpClient library
Step 1 – Create a HttpClient object
The createDefault() method of the HttpClients class returns a CloseableHttpClient object, which is the base implementation of the HttpClient interface.
Using this method, create an HttpClient object as shown below −
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
Step 2 – Create an HttpGet Object
The HttpGet class represents the HTTPGET request which retrieves the information of the given server using a URI.
Create a HTTP GET request by instantiating this class. The constructor of this class accepts a String value representing the URI.
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("https://www.adglob.in/");
Step 3 – Execute the Get Request
The execute() method of the CloseableHttpClient class accepts a HttpUriRequest (interface) object (i.e. HttpGet, HttpPost, HttpPut, HttpHead etc.) and returns a response object.
Execute the request using this method as shown below −
HttpResponse httpresponse = httpclient.execute(httpget);
Example
Following is an example which demonstrates the execution of the HTTP GET request using HttpClient library.
import java.util.Scanner;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
public class HttpGetExample {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
//Creating a HttpClient object
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
//Creating a HttpGet object
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("https://adglob.in/ ");
//Printing the method used
System.out.println("Request Type: "+httpget.getMethod());
//Executing the Get request
HttpResponse httpresponse = httpclient.execute(httpget);
Scanner sc = new Scanner(httpresponse.getEntity().getContent());
//Printing the status line
System.out.println(httpresponse.getStatusLine());
while(sc.hasNext()) {
System.out.println(sc.nextLine());
}
}
}
Output
The above program generates the following output −
Request Type: GET <!DOCTYPE html> <!--[if IE 8]><html class = "ie ie8"> <![endif]--> <!--[if IE 9]><html class = "ie ie9"> <![endif]--> <!--[if gt IE 9]><!--> <html lang = "en-US"> <!--<![endif]--> <head> <!-- Basic --> <meta charset = "utf-8"> <title>Parallax Scrolling, Java Cryptography, YAML, Python Data Science, Java i18n, GitLab, TestRail, VersionOne, DBUtils, Common CLI, Seaborn, Ansible, LOLCODE, Current Affairs 2018, Apache Commons Collections</title> <meta name = "Description" content = "Parallax Scrolling, Java Cryptography, YAML, Python Data Science, Java i18n, GitLab, TestRail, VersionOne, DBUtils, Common CLI, Seaborn, Ansible, LOLCODE, Current Affairs 2018, Intellij Idea, Apache Commons Collections, Java 9, GSON, TestLink, Inter Process Communication (IPC), Logo, PySpark, Google Tag Manager, Free IFSC Code, SAP Workflow"/> <meta name = "Keywords" content = "Python Data Science, Java i18n, GitLab, TestRail, VersionOne, DBUtils, Common CLI, Seaborn, Ansible, LOLCODE, Gson, TestLink, Inter Process Communication (IPC), Logo"/> <meta http-equiv = "X-UA-Compatible" content = "IE = edge"> <meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width,initial-scale = 1.0,userscalable = yes"> <link href = "https://cdn.muicss.com/mui-0.9.39/extra/mui-rem.min.css" rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" /> <link rel = "stylesheet" href="/questions/css/home.css?v = 3" /> <script src = "/questions/js/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src = "/questions/js/fontawesome.js"></script> <script src = "https://cdn.muicss.com/mui-0.9.39/js/mui.min.js"></script> </head> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </script> </body> </html>