10 thoughts on “Mechanize for Java”

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2. Hi, I use Mechanize with Perl and I’m looking for a similar library to use it in Android (Java) apps. Glad I found your project!

   Many times I use in my scripts in Perl:
   $mech->post (…);
   Is there a possibility to do it with your library?

   Thanks in advance!

   Cheers,
   mat

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   • Hello Mat,

     Thanks for commenting, and the feature request.

     I’m sure we can expose post directly (and you are welcome to contribute a pull request on GitHub is you were inspired.)

     Are you thinking something like:
     
agent.post(url, mapNameValueParams)


     Cheers,
     John

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3. Hi John,
   thanks for your answer.

   Exactly. In Perl it’s inherited from LWP::UserAgent. There we can do for example:

   my $response = $browser->post($url,
   [ 'value1'=>"2",
   'value2'=>"0",
   ## etc.etc.etc....
   ], @ns_headers);

   Would be great to see it in your Java implementation.

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   • Hello mat,

     I’ve create https://github.com/GistLabs/mechanize/issues/4 to track this request.

     I’m not sure how nicely we’ll get the syntax in Java, but this is definitely a good idea.

     Cheers,
     John

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     • Hello mat,

       You can check out the 0.9.0-SNAPSHOT with the new api methods to support this. Heres the new code: https://github.com/GistLabs/mechanize/blob/master/src/main/java/com/gistlabs/mechanize/MechanizeAgent.java

       Cheers, John

4. Dear,

   I’m trying to use mechanize, but I’ve problem with dependencies. NetBeans cannot find the following symbols in MechanizeAgent.java

   import org.apache.http.Header;
   import org.apache.http.HttpException;
   import org.apache.http.HttpResponseInterceptor;
   import org.apache.http.entity.BufferedHttpEntity;
   import org.apache.http.params.HttpProtocolParams;
   import org.apache.http.protocol.BasicHttpContext;

   In Debug.java:
   import org.apache.http.Header;
   import org.apache.http.HttpMessage;

   In CacheEntry.java
   import org.apache.http.Header;
   import org.apache.http.HeaderElement;
   import org.apache.http.HttpMessage;
   import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
   import org.apache.http.entity.ByteArrayEntity;
   import org.apache.http.message.BasicHttpResponse;

   and others….

   NetBeans add the following libraries like dependencies:
   ant-1.8.1
   commons-logging-1.0.4
   css-selector-1.0.4
   httpclient-4.0.1
   httpmime-4.0.1
   json-20090211
   jsoup-1.7.1
   ant-launcher-1.8.1

   Can you help me to solve the problem?
   Thanks

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   • Errata correge.
     All works fine. I run “Clean and Build” and NetBeans downloads the missing dependencies.

     Sorry.

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5. Is there a way to parse the response in addition to tag links? E.g. If I want to have every lines between and

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   • I find the solution. Thanks.

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