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/*
Copyright 2011 Bricolsoft Consulting
    
   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   You may obtain a copy of the License at
    
   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
    
   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
   limitations under the License.
*/

package com.bricolsoftconsulting.geocoderplus.util.http;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.ResponseHandler;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicResponseHandler;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

public class HttpRetriever {
    // Members
    DefaultHttpClient httpclient = null;

    // Constructor
    public HttpRetriever() {
        httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    }

    // Document retrieval function
    public String retrieve(String url) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
        // Declare
        String response = null;

        // Connect to server and get JSON response
        HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);
        ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
        response = httpclient.execute(request, responseHandler);

        // Return
        return response;
    }
}