How to Store output of API?

Question

I am hitting API with this code-

 public static int hitUrl(String urlToHit)
    {
       try
        {
            URL url = new URL(urlToHit);
            HttpURLConnection http = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
            int statusCode = http.getResponseCode();
            return statusCode;
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return 0;
        }
    }

Like this I am getting return value 200. It means I am hitting url successfully. But I have to store output of API. My API returns uniqueId. How can I store the output ?

possible duplicate of [Can you explain the HttpURLConnection connection process?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10116961/can-you-explain-the-httpurlconnection-connection-process) — Oliver Charlesworth, Dec 31 '13 at 11:52

Prateek · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-01T10:45:00.707

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Try this:

InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
BufferedReader br= new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String output= br.readLine();
System.out.println(output);

edited Jan 01 '14 at 10:45

answered Dec 31 '13 at 12:40

Prateek

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 31 '13 at 12:28

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try this

URL link = new URL(urlToHit);
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(link.openStream()));
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(inputLine );
}//while

answered Dec 31 '13 at 12:28

KhAn SaAb

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 31 '13 at 12:30

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To get the response in a stream you can use:

InputStream isr = http.getInputStream();

and call isr.read() to get the output from stream.

edited Dec 31 '13 at 12:30

Kevin Wright

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answered Dec 31 '13 at 12:06

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How to Store output of API?

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