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Kasra Bigdeli edited this page Mar 31, 2016 · 5 revisions

Firstly take a look at the "samples" sub-module. The sample code illustrates using NanoHttpd in various ways.

Secondly, you can run the standalone NanoHttpd Webserver.

Or, create your own class that extends NanoHTTPD and overrides one of the two flavors of the serve() method. For example:

package fi.iki.elonen.debug;

import fi.iki.elonen.NanoHTTPD;
import fi.iki.elonen.ServerRunner;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class DebugServer extends NanoHTTPD {
    public DebugServer() {
        super(8080);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ServerRunner.run(DebugServer.class);
    }

    @Override public Response serve(IHTTPSession session) {
        Map<String, List<String>> decodedQueryParameters =
            decodeParameters(session.getQueryParameterString());

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append("<html>");
        sb.append("<head><title>Debug Server</title></head>");
        sb.append("<body>");
        sb.append("<h1>Debug Server</h1>");

        sb.append("<p><blockquote><b>URI</b> = ").append(
            String.valueOf(session.getUri())).append("<br />");

        sb.append("<b>Method</b> = ").append(
            String.valueOf(session.getMethod())).append("</blockquote></p>");

        sb.append("<h3>Headers</h3><p><blockquote>").
            append(toString(session.getHeaders())).append("</blockquote></p>");

        sb.append("<h3>Parms</h3><p><blockquote>").
            append(toString(session.getParms())).append("</blockquote></p>");

        sb.append("<h3>Parms (multi values?)</h3><p><blockquote>").
            append(toString(decodedQueryParameters)).append("</blockquote></p>");

        try {
            Map<String, String> files = new HashMap<String, String>();
            session.parseBody(files);
            sb.append("<h3>Files</h3><p><blockquote>").
                append(toString(files)).append("</blockquote></p>");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        sb.append("</body>");
        sb.append("</html>");
        return newFixedLengthResponse(sb.toString());
    }

    private String toString(Map<String, ? extends Object> map) {
        if (map.size() == 0) {
            return "";
        }
        return unsortedList(map);
    }

    private String unsortedList(Map<String, ? extends Object> map) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append("<ul>");
        for (Map.Entry entry : map.entrySet()) {
            listItem(sb, entry);
        }
        sb.append("</ul>");
        return sb.toString();
    }

    private void listItem(StringBuilder sb, Map.Entry entry) {
        sb.append("<li><code><b>").append(entry.getKey()).
            append("</b> = ").append(entry.getValue()).append("</code></li>");
    }
}
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