DefaultHttpClient was deprecated in api level 22, and removed in api level 23.
The documentation was even removed from the Android documentation, here is the link to where the documentation was previously, and you can see where it re-directs to:
http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/impl/client/DefaultHttpClient.html
Quote just in case the re-direct changes:
Android 6.0 release removes support for the Apache HTTP client. If
your app is using this client and targets Android 2.3 (API level 9) or
higher, use the HttpURLConnection class instead. This API is more
efficient because it reduces network use through transparent
compression and response caching, and minimizes power consumption.
I created an updated version of the JSONParser class that you’re using, here it is:
import android.util.Log;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.util.HashMap;
public class JSONParser {
String charset = "UTF-8";
HttpURLConnection conn;
DataOutputStream wr;
StringBuilder result;
URL urlObj;
JSONObject jObj = null;
StringBuilder sbParams;
String paramsString;
public JSONObject makeHttpRequest(String url, String method,
HashMap<String, String> params) {
sbParams = new StringBuilder();
int i = 0;
for (String key : params.keySet()) {
try {
if (i != 0){
sbParams.append("&");
}
sbParams.append(key).append("=")
.append(URLEncoder.encode(params.get(key), charset));
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
i++;
}
if (method.equals("POST")) {
// request method is POST
try {
urlObj = new URL(url);
conn = (HttpURLConnection) urlObj.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept-Charset", charset);
conn.setReadTimeout(10000);
conn.setConnectTimeout(15000);
conn.connect();
paramsString = sbParams.toString();
wr = new DataOutputStream(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.writeBytes(paramsString);
wr.flush();
wr.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
else if(method.equals("GET")){
// request method is GET
if (sbParams.length() != 0) {
url += "?" + sbParams.toString();
}
try {
urlObj = new URL(url);
conn = (HttpURLConnection) urlObj.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(false);
conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept-Charset", charset);
conn.setConnectTimeout(15000);
conn.connect();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
try {
//Receive the response from the server
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(conn.getInputStream());
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
result = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
result.append(line);
}
Log.d("JSON Parser", "result: " + result.toString());
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
conn.disconnect();
// try parse the string to a JSON object
try {
jObj = new JSONObject(result.toString());
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
// return JSON Object
return jObj;
}
}
Example AsyncTask for Post:
class PostAsync extends AsyncTask<String, String, JSONObject> {
JSONParser jsonParser = new JSONParser();
private ProgressDialog pDialog;
private static final String LOGIN_URL = "http://www.example.com/testPost.php";
private static final String TAG_SUCCESS = "success";
private static final String TAG_MESSAGE = "message";
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
pDialog = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
pDialog.setMessage("Attempting login...");
pDialog.setIndeterminate(false);
pDialog.setCancelable(true);
pDialog.show();
}
@Override
protected JSONObject doInBackground(String... args) {
try {
HashMap<String, String> params = new HashMap<>();
params.put("name", args[0]);
params.put("password", args[1]);
Log.d("request", "starting");
JSONObject json = jsonParser.makeHttpRequest(
LOGIN_URL, "POST", params);
if (json != null) {
Log.d("JSON result", json.toString());
return json;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
protected void onPostExecute(JSONObject json) {
int success = 0;
String message = "";
if (pDialog != null && pDialog.isShowing()) {
pDialog.dismiss();
}
if (json != null) {
Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, json.toString(),
Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
try {
success = json.getInt(TAG_SUCCESS);
message = json.getString(TAG_MESSAGE);
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
if (success == 1) {
Log.d("Success!", message);
}else{
Log.d("Failure", message);
}
}
}
Example AsyncTask for Get:
class GetAsync extends AsyncTask<String, String, JSONObject> {
JSONParser jsonParser = new JSONParser();
private ProgressDialog pDialog;
private static final String LOGIN_URL = "http://www.example.com/testGet.php";
private static final String TAG_SUCCESS = "success";
private static final String TAG_MESSAGE = "message";
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
pDialog = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
pDialog.setMessage("Attempting login...");
pDialog.setIndeterminate(false);
pDialog.setCancelable(true);
pDialog.show();
}
@Override
protected JSONObject doInBackground(String... args) {
try {
HashMap<String, String> params = new HashMap<>();
params.put("name", args[0]);
params.put("password", args[1]);
Log.d("request", "starting");
JSONObject json = jsonParser.makeHttpRequest(
LOGIN_URL, "GET", params);
if (json != null) {
Log.d("JSON result", json.toString());
return json;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
protected void onPostExecute(JSONObject json) {
int success = 0;
String message = "";
if (pDialog != null && pDialog.isShowing()) {
pDialog.dismiss();
}
if (json != null) {
Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, json.toString(),
Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
try {
success = json.getInt(TAG_SUCCESS);
message = json.getString(TAG_MESSAGE);
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
if (success == 1) {
Log.d("Success!", message);
}else{
Log.d("Failure", message);
}
}
}
For more details, here’s my blog post about this code: http://danielnugent.blogspot.com/2015/06/updated-jsonparser-with.html