java - Apache HttpClient GET with body

Question

I am trying to send an HTTP GET with a json object in its body. Is there a way to set the body of an HttpClient HttpGet? I am looking for the equivalent of HttpPost#setEntity.

Answer 1

From what I know, you can't do this with the default HttpGet class that comes with the Apache library. However, you can subclass the HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase entity and set the method to GET. I haven't tested this, but I think the following example might be what you're looking for:

import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase;

public class HttpGetWithEntity extends HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase {
    public final static String METHOD_NAME = "GET";

    @Override
    public String getMethod() {
        return METHOD_NAME;
    }
}

Edit:

You could then do the following:

...
HttpGetWithEntity e = new HttpGetWithEntity();
...
e.setEntity(yourEntity);
...
response = httpclient.execute(e);