Testing the Post request

From:
Pete <vw_bora@sky.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.help,comp.client-server
Date:
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:41:54 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<df9cb1d7-c953-49ed-851b-c309a034a3a9@x3g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>
Hi,
Below is a bit of code that I intend to use to perform a http "Post"
request to an another application - which is still under development.
I would like to verify the implemention of this method ie it will
perform a http POST request with the xml content to the specified URL.
I want to avoid mocking the HttpClient class. I would like to
effectively see this method perform the a actions and and some stub
application receive the request ( get I presume). Any help, with
example code pls, would be very much appreciated.

Thank You.

Pete

code =>
    public void sendResponse() {

        String url = "URL";

        String xmldata = "xml data";

        PostMethod post = new PostMethod(url);

        final RequestEntity entity = new StringRequestEntity(xmldata);
        post.setRequestEntity(entity);

        // Specify content type and encoding
        post.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "text/xml;
charset=ISO-8859-1");

        // Get HTTP client
        HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();

        // Execute request
        try {

            int result = httpclient.executeMethod(post);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.print("exception encountered " + e.toString());
        } finally {
            post.releaseConnection();
        }
    }

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