What is the Java equivalent for the following in curl? -

curl https://view-api.box.com/1/documents \ -h "authorization: token your_api_key" \ -h "content-type: application/json" \ -d '{"url": "https://cloud.box.com/shared/static/4qhegqxubg8ox0uj5ys8.pdf"}' \ -x post 

how accomodate url?

this tried far.

final string url = "https://view-api.box.com/1/documents";          @suppresswarnings("resource")         final httpclient client = httpclientbuilder.create().build();         final httppost post = new httppost(url);          post.setheader("authorization", "token: token_id");         post.setheader("content-type", "application/json");          final list<namevaluepair> urlparameters = new arraylist<namevaluepair>();         urlparameters.add(new basicnamevaluepair("url", "https://cloud.box.com/shared/static/4qhegqxubg8ox0uj5ys8.pdf"));          post.setentity(new urlencodedformentity(urlparameters));          final httpresponse response = client.execute(post);         system.out.println("response code : " + response.getstatusline().getstatuscode());          final bufferedreader rd = new bufferedreader(new inputstreamreader(response.getentity().getcontent()));          final stringbuffer result = new stringbuffer();         string line = "";         while ((line = rd.readline()) != null) {             result.append(line);         }      } 

you have ok except entity, you're sending in curl not content of html form json object.

first take off part (don't send data if application/x-www-form-urlencoded):

// comment out / delete  code: final list<namevaluepair> urlparameters = new arraylist<namevaluepair>(); urlparameters.add(new basicnamevaluepair("url", "https://cloud.box.com/shared/static/4qhegqxubg8ox0uj5ys8.pdf"));  post.setentity(new urlencodedformentity(urlparameters)); 

and add body in way:

basichttpentity entity = new basichttpentity(); inputstream body = new bytearrayinputstream(     "{\"url\": \"https://cloud.box.com/shared/static/4qhegqxubg8ox0uj5ys8.pdf\"}".getbytes()); entity.setcontent(body); post.setentity(entity); 

i'm assuming json string have chars between 0x20 , 0x7f, if use other characters (like Ñ) need transform data bytearray using encoding utf-8 (the standard encoding used in json data) in way:

basichttpentity entity = new basichttpentity(); string mydata = "{\"url\": \"https://cloud.box.com/shared/static/4qhegqxubg8ox0uj5ys8.pdf\"}"; bytearrayoutputstream rawbytes = new bytearrayoutputstream(); outputstreamwriter writer = new outputstreamwriter(rawbytes,         charset.forname("utf-8")); writer.append(mydata); inputstream body = new bytearrayinputstream(rawbytes.tobytearray()); entity.setcontent(body); post.setentity(entity);