import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out
.println(jsonGetRequest("http://server.org/weather?q=New York&format=json"));
}
private static String streamToString(InputStream inputStream) {
String text = new Scanner(inputStream, "UTF-8").useDelimiter("\\Z").next();
return text;
}
public static String jsonGetRequest(String urlQueryString) {
String json = null;
try {
URL url = new URL(urlQueryString);
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(false);
connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
connection.setRequestProperty("charset", "utf-8");
connection.connect();
InputStream inStream = connection.getInputStream();
json = streamToString(inStream); // input stream to string
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
return json;
}
}