/**
* Convert date to a date object
*
* @param date as a string 2015-03-02T09:07:00.000Z
* @return date
*/
public static Date getDateFromString(String date) {
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(JSON_DATE_FORMAT);
try {
return formatter.parse(date);
} catch (ParseException e) {
Utils.log(e.getMessage());
return null;
}
}
/**
* @param url the URL to get from
* @param getData the raw string to send as the payload
*/
public static String httpGet(String url, String getData) {
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
try {
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url + "?" + getData);
httpGet.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
HttpResponse response = client.execute(httpGet);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
InputStream content = entity.getContent();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(content));
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
builder.append(line);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
Utils.log(e.getMessage());
}
return builder.toString();
}