OkHttp Post Body as JSON

Question

So, back when I was using Koush's Ion, I was able to add a json body to my posts with a simple .setJsonObjectBody(json).asJsonObject()

I'm moving over to OkHttp, and I really don't see a good way to do that. I'm getting error 400's all over the place.

Anyone have any ideas?

I've even tried manually formatting it as a json string.

String reason = menuItem.getTitle().toString();
JsonObject json = new JsonObject();
json.addProperty("Reason", reason);

String url = mBaseUrl + "/" + id + "/report";

Request request = new Request.Builder()
        .header("X-Client-Type", "Android")
        .url(url)
        .post(RequestBody
                .create(MediaType
                    .parse("application/json"),
                        "{\"Reason\": \"" + reason + "\"}"
                ))
        .build();

client.newCall(request).enqueue(new com.squareup.okhttp.Callback() {
    @Override
    public void onFailure(Request request, IOException throwable) {
        throwable.printStackTrace();
    }

    @Override
    public void onResponse(Response response) throws IOException {
        if (!response.isSuccessful()) throw new IOException(
                "Unexpected code " + response);
        runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                Toast.makeText(context, "Report Received", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });
    }
});

/*Ion.with(getContext(), url)
        .setHeader("X-Client-Type", "Android")
        .setJsonObjectBody(json)
        .asJsonObject()
        .setCallback(new FutureCallback<JsonObject>() {
            @Override
            public void onCompleted(Exception e, JsonObject result) {
                Toast.makeText(context, "Report Received", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });*/

Edit: For anyone stumbling upon this question later, here is my solution that does everything asynchronously. The selected answer IS CORRECT, but my code is a bit different.

String reason = menuItem.getTitle().toString();
if (reason.equals("Copyright"))
    reason = "CopyrightInfringement";
JsonObject json = new JsonObject();
json.addProperty("Reason", reason);

String url = mBaseUrl + "/" + id + "/report";

String jsonString = json.toString();
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(JSON, jsonString);

Request request = new Request.Builder()
    .header("X-Client-Type", "Android")
    .url(url)
    .post(body)
    .build();

client.newCall(request).enqueue(new com.squareup.okhttp.Callback() {
    @Override
    public void onFailure(Request request, IOException throwable) {
        throwable.printStackTrace();
    }

    @Override
    public void onResponse(Response response) throws IOException {
        if (!response.isSuccessful()) throw new IOException(
            "Unexpected code " + response);
        runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                Toast.makeText(context, "Report Received", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });
    }
});

/*Ion.with(getContext(), url)
    .setHeader("X-Client-Type", "Android")
    .setJsonObjectBody(json)
    .asJsonObject()
    .setCallback(new FutureCallback<JsonObject>() {
        @Override
        public void onCompleted(Exception e, JsonObject result) {
            Toast.makeText(context, "Report Received", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    });*/

...

private void runOnUiThread(Runnable task) {
    new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).post(task);
}

A little more work, mainly because you have to get back to the UI thread to do any UI work, but you have the benefit of HTTPS just...working.

Answer 1

Just use JSONObject.toString(); method. And have a look at OkHttp's tutorial:

public static final MediaType JSON
    = MediaType.parse("application/json; charset=utf-8");

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

String post(String url, String json) throws IOException {
  RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(json, JSON); // new
  // RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(JSON, json); // old
  Request request = new Request.Builder()
      .url(url)
      .post(body)
      .build();
  Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
  return response.body().string();
}