Read from URL
Google Guava is a java library with lot of utilities and reusable components.
This requires the library guava-10.0.jar to be in classpath.
The following example shows using Resources.toString() API.
package com.bethecoder.tutorials.guava.io_tests; import java.io.IOException; import java.net.URL; import com.google.common.base.Charsets; import com.google.common.io.Resources; public class ReadFromURLTest { /** * @param args * @throws IOException */ public static void main ( String [] args ) throws IOException { URL url = new URL ( "http://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=NASDAQ:MSFT" ) ; String urlContent = Resources.toString ( url, Charsets.UTF_8 ) ; System.out.println ( urlContent ) ; } }
// [
{
"id": "358464"
,"t" : "MSFT"
,"e" : "NASDAQ"
,"l" : "24.79"
,"l_cur" : "24.79"
,"s": "2"
,"ltt":"4:00PM EST"
,"lt" : "Nov 22, 4:00PM EST"
,"c" : "-0.21"
,"cp" : "-0.84"
,"ccol" : "chr"
,"el": "24.76"
,"el_cur": "24.76"
,"elt" : "Nov 22, 7:59PM EST"
,"ec" : "-0.03"
,"ecp" : "-0.12"
,"eccol" : "chr"
,"div" : "0.20"
,"yld" : "3.23"
}
]
