/*These utilities will be used to communicate with the network.*/
public class NetworkUtils {
final static String GITHUB_BASE_URL =
"https://api.github.com/search/repositories";
final static String PARAM_QUERY = "q";
/**The sort field.Default: results are sorted by best match
* if no field is specified.*/
final static String PARAM_SORT = "sort";
final static String sortBy = "stars";
/**
* Builds the URL used to query Github.
* @param githubSearchQuery The keyword that will be queried for.
* @return The URL to use to query the weather server.
*/
public static URL buildUrl(String githubSearchQuery) {
// To build the proper Github query URL
Uri builtUri = Uri.parse(GITHUB_BASE_URL)
.buildUpon()
.appendQueryParameter(PARAM_QUERY,githubSearchQuery)
.appendQueryParameter(PARAM_SORT,sortBy)
.build();
URL url = null;
try {
url = new URL(builtUri.toString());
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return url;
}
/**
* This method returns the entire result from the HTTP response.
* @param url The URL to fetch the HTTP response from.
* @return The contents of the HTTP response.
* @throws IOException Related to network and stream reading
*/
public static String getResponseFromHttpUrl(URL url) throws IOException {
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
try {
InputStream in = urlConnection.getInputStream();
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(in);
scanner.useDelimiter("\\A");
boolean hasInput = scanner.hasNext();
if (hasInput) {
return scanner.next();
} else {
return null;
}
} finally {
urlConnection.disconnect();
}
}
}
