get XML From URL - Android Network

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get XML From URL

Demo Code

/***************************************************************************
 *   Copyright 2005-2009 Last.fm Ltd.                                      *
 *   Portions contributed by Casey Link, Lukasz Wisniewski,                *
 *   Mike Jennings, and Michael Novak Jr.                                  *
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//package com.java2s;

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    public static String useragent;

    public static String getXML(URL url) throws IOException {
        HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        setUserAgent(conn);/*from  ww  w.ja  va2 s .c o m*/
        conn.setRequestProperty("connection", "close");
        conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
        BufferedReader reader = null;
        try {
            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    conn.getInputStream()));
            return toString(reader);
        } finally {
            if (reader != null) {
                reader.close();
            }
        }
    }

    /** mainly sets the User-Agent we need */
    private static void setUserAgent(HttpURLConnection conn) {
        if (useragent != null)
            conn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", useragent);
    }

    private static String toString(BufferedReader reader)
            throws IOException {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        String line;
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line).append('\n');
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

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