Use Notifo’s API with Java

This is just a small hack to use Notifo’s API with Java:

URL url = new URL("https://api.notifo.com/v1/send_notification");
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
String authorizationString = "Basic " + new String(Base64.encodeBase64((username + ":" + apiSecret).getBytes()));
connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", authorizationString);
connection.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter output = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
output.write("to=m");
output.write("&msg="+URLEncoder.encode(msg,"UTF8"));
output.write("&uri="+URLEncoder.encode(uri,"UTF8"));
output.write("&label="+URLEncoder.encode(label,"UTF8"));
output.write("&title="+URLEncoder.encode(title,"UTF8"));
output.flush();
output.close();
connection.getInputStream().close();

(Remember: This is just a quick’n'dirty solution. It just works for me and is not especially beautiful)

This code depends on Apache Commons for base64-encoding.

Feel free to drop me a line, if this was helpful. The code is released under WTFPL ;-)

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