A more contemporary way of doing it on a separate thread using Tasks and Kotlin
private val mExecutor: Executor = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor()
private fun createHttpTask(u:String): Task<String> {
return Tasks.call(mExecutor, Callable<String>{
val url = URL(u)
val conn: HttpURLConnection = url.openConnection() as HttpURLConnection
conn.requestMethod = "GET"
conn.connectTimeout = 3000
conn.readTimeout = 3000
val rc = conn.responseCode
if ( rc != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
throw java.lang.Exception("Error: ${rc}")
}
val inp: InputStream = BufferedInputStream(conn.inputStream)
val resp: String = inp.bufferedReader(UTF_8).use{ it.readText() }
return@Callable resp
})
}
and now you can use it like below in many places:
createHttpTask("https://google.com")
.addOnSuccessListener {
Log.d("HTTP", "Response: ${it}") // 'it' is a response string here
}
.addOnFailureListener {
Log.d("HTTP", "Error: ${it.message}") // 'it' is an Exception object here
}