Http Request in Android with Kotlin

HTTP Request in Android with Kotlin

For Android, Volley is a good place to get started. For all platforms, you might also want to check out ktor client or http4k which are both good libraries.

However, you can also use standard Java libraries like java.net.HttpURLConnection
which is part of the Java SDK:

fun sendGet() {
    val url = URL("http://www.google.com/")

    with(url.openConnection() as HttpURLConnection) {
        requestMethod = "GET"  // optional default is GET

        println("\nSent 'GET' request to URL : $url; Response Code : $responseCode")

        inputStream.bufferedReader().use {
            it.lines().forEach { line ->
                println(line)
            }
        }
    }
}

Or simpler:

URL("https://google.com").readText()

Simple HTTP request example in Android using Kotlin

I suggest you to use the official recommendation of OkHttp, or the Fuel library for easier side and it also has bindings for deserialization of response into objects using popular Json / ProtoBuf libraries.

Fuel example:

// Coroutines way:
// both are equivalent
val (request, response, result) = Fuel.get("https://httpbin.org/ip").awaitStringResponseResult()
val (request, response, result) = "https://httpbin.org/ip".httpGet().awaitStringResponseResult()

// process the response further:
result.fold(
    { data -> println(data) /* "{"origin":"127.0.0.1"}" */ },
    { error -> println("An error of type ${error.exception} happened: ${error.message}") }
)

// Or coroutines way + no callback style:
try {
    println(Fuel.get("https://httpbin.org/ip").awaitString()) // "{"origin":"127.0.0.1"}"
} catch(exception: Exception) {
    println("A network request exception was thrown: ${exception.message}")
}

// Or non-coroutine way / callback style:
val httpAsync = "https://httpbin.org/get"
    .httpGet()
    .responseString { request, response, result ->
        when (result) {
            is Result.Failure -> {
                val ex = result.getException()
                println(ex)
            }
            is Result.Success -> {
                val data = result.get()
                println(data)
            }
        }
    }

httpAsync.join()

OkHttp example:

val request = Request.Builder()
    .url("http://publicobject.com/helloworld.txt")
    .build()

// Coroutines not supported directly, use the basic Callback way:
client.newCall(request).enqueue(object : Callback {
    override fun onFailure(call: Call, e: IOException) {
        e.printStackTrace()
    }

    override fun onResponse(call: Call, response: Response) {
        response.use {
            if (!response.isSuccessful) throw IOException("Unexpected code $response")

            for ((name, value) in response.headers) {
                println("$name: $value")
            }

            println(response.body!!.string())
        }
    }
})

HTTP GET-Request in Kotlin/Android Studio

Try this

  url.httpGet().responseString { request, response, result ->
        when (result) {
            is Result.Failure -> {
                val ex = result.getException()
                println(ex)
            }
            is Result.Success -> {
                val data = result.get()
                println(data)
            }
        }
    }

Official documentation

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