Chromecast communication using JAVA/Android and Http

Question

I'm trying to communicate with Chromecast using Http. I'm using this documentation about API methods and trying to execute an Youtube video on it. Following this answer to execute a post call, for now I have:

@Override
public void run() {
    try {

        String urlParameters = "v=oHg5SJYRHA0";
        byte[] postData = urlParameters.getBytes();
        int postLenght = postData.length;
        //url is: new URL("http://192.168.25.99:8008/apps/YouTube")
        HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
        urlConnection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);
        urlConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
        urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
        urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", Integer.toString(postLenght));
        urlConnection.setUseCaches(false);
        DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(urlConnection.getOutputStream());
        wr.write(postData);
        wr.flush();
        wr.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

This command execute properly but nothing happening in Chromecast.

What am I doing wrong?

how do you figure it executes properly? you never check the result of the request! — njzk2, Aug 03 '15 at 04:27

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 03 '15 at 04:37

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It works, I just forgot to call the response:

String responseMessage = urlConnection.getResponseMessage();

When I call this method, the video executes.

answered Aug 03 '15 at 04:37

alexpfx

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