Merge branch 'master' into core-java-move-1

core-java-modules/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/jsonposturlconnection/PostJSONWithHttpURLConnection.java

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+package com.baeldung.jsonposturlconnection;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+public class PostJSONWithHttpURLConnection {
+	
+	public static void main (String []args) throws IOException{
+		//Change the URL with any other publicly accessible POST resource, which accepts JSON request body
+		URL url = new URL ("https://reqres.in/api/users");
+		
+		HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
+		con.setRequestMethod("POST");
+		
+		con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json; utf-8");
+		con.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
+		
+		con.setDoOutput(true);
+		
+		//JSON String need to be constructed for the specific resource. 
+		//We may construct complex JSON using any third-party JSON libraries such as jackson or org.json
+		String jsonInputString = "{\"name\": \"Upendra\", \"job\": \"Programmer\"}";
+		
+		try(OutputStream os = con.getOutputStream()){
+			byte[] input = jsonInputString.getBytes("utf-8");
+			os.write(input, 0, input.length);			
+		}
+
+		int code = con.getResponseCode();
+		System.out.println(code);
+		
+		try(BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream(), "utf-8"))){
+			StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();
+			String responseLine = null;
+			while ((responseLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
+				response.append(responseLine.trim());
+			}
+			System.out.println(response.toString());
+		}
+	}
+
+}