PostMethod setRequestBody(String) deprecated - why?

java request apache-commons-httpclient
Trick picture Trick · Jan 19, 2010 · Viewed 41.6k times · Source

I am using Apache Commons HttpClient PostMethod 3.1.

In the PostMethod class there are also three methods for setting POST method's request body:

setRequestBody(InputStream body)
setRequestBody(String body)
setRequestBody(NameValuePair[] parametersBody);

NameValuePair API

First two methods are deprecated. Does anybody knows why? Because if I want to put an XML to request body, NameValuePair does not help me.

Does anybody knows an workaround or a solution?

Answer

Bozho picture Bozho · Jan 19, 2010

The javadoc says:

Deprecated. use setRequestEntity(RequestEntity)

RequestEntity has a lot of implementors, namely:

ByteArrayRequestEntity, FileRequestEntity, InputStreamRequestEntity, MultipartRequestEntity, StringRequestEntity

Use the one that suits you:

and so on.

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