java异步请求,你如何在Java中创建一个异步HTTP请求？

I'm fairly new to Java, so this may seem obvious to some. I've worked a lot with ActionScript, which is very much event based and I love that. I recently tried to write a small bit of Java code that does a POST request, but I've been faced with the problem that it's a synchronous request, so the code execution waits for the request to complete, time out or present an error.

How can I create an asynchronous request, where the code continues the execution and a callback is invoked when the HTTP request is complete? I've glanced at threads, but I'm thinking it's overkill.

解决方案

Java is indeed more low level than ActionScript. It's like comparing apples with oranges. While ActionScript handles it all transparently "under the hood", in Java you need to manage the asynchronous processing (threading) yourself.

Fortunately, in Java there's the java.util.concurrent API which can do that in a nice manner.

Your problem can basically be solved as follows:

// Have one (or more) threads ready to do the async tasks. Do this during startup of your app.

ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(1);

// Fire a request.

Future response = executor.submit(new Request(new URL("http://google.com")));

// Do your other tasks here (will be processed immediately, current thread won't block).

// ...

// Get the response (here the current thread will block until response is returned).

InputStream body = response.get().getBody();

// ...

// Shutdown the threads during shutdown of your app.

executor.shutdown();

wherein Request and Response look like follows:

public class Request implements Callable {

private URL url;

public Request(URL url) {

this.url = url;

}

@Override

public Response call() throws Exception {

return new Response(url.openStream());

}

}

and

public class Response {

private InputStream body;

public Response(InputStream body) {

this.body = body;

}

public InputStream getBody() {

return body;

}

}

See also:

Lesson: Concurrency - a java.util.concurrent tutorial.