Help: read directly from URL

[Sam Sunamin]

Hi Guys,

I have one request from our manager to get response from URL. The response will be xml format.

However, I used the following code which only read the response line by line. It is possible to parse the whole response as xml format in buffer?

The response will be something like

<xml>
   <Customer>
          <name>First Name</name>
          <lname>Last Name</lname>
          <income>1000.00</income>
  </Customer>
</xml>

Since it is a small task and I have very short time to do this, can anyone provide any idea? I will really appreciate it.

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class URLReader {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
	URL testURL= new URL("http://www.testURL.com/testCustomer/customer.aspx?customerId=123&CountryCode=USA");
	BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
				new InputStreamReader(
				testURL.openStream()));

	String inputLine;

	while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
	    System.out.println(inputLine);

	in.close();
    }
}

[David Newton]

There are a *lot* of different ways to parse XML with Java.

[Sam Sunamin]

Thank you very much for your reply.

I got the sample code from sun.

http://developers.sun.com/sw/building/codesamples/sax/

I think this will solve my problem.