Advanced Services - SMS Connectivity Java Sample application using HTTP to send an SMS text message

The following sample application written in Java sends an SMS text message to a single mobile telephone. The application uses HTTP to communicate with HSL's systems. To send to more than one mobile telephone at a time, separate each mobile number in the destaddr field by a comma (e.g. "447968000111,447720000111,3378100100").

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.security.*;

public class SuperSimpleHTTPExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            // These variables fill out the various parts described in the
            // interface specification
            String host = "sms.haysystems.com";
            String port = "80";
            String action = "sendtxt";
            String client_id = "<your client_id>";
            String text = "this is a test message";
            String destaddr = "<some fully-qualified MSISDN>";
            String password = "<your password>";

            // Build and encode the URL.
            // Note we are careful to URL-encode the message content as it is
            // the only part of the URL likely to contain reserved characters.
            String url = "http://" + host + ":" + port + "/" + action;
            url += "/?client_id=" + client_id + "&text=";
            url += URLEncoder.encode(text, "UTF-8") + "&destaddr="+ destaddr;
            url += "&password=" + password;

            // Make a URL object, ready for the call
            URL urlObject = new URL(url);

            // Actually make a connection
            HttpURLConnection connection =
                (HttpURLConnection)urlObject.openConnection();
            connection.setDoInput(true);
            connection.connect();

            // Check the response
            int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
            if(responseCode == 200) {
                // Read the server's response
                BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));

                System.out.println("Submission result: " + in.readLine());
                in.close();

            } else {
                // There was an error
                System.err.println("Server responded with code " + responseCode);
            }

        } catch(Exception e) {
            System.err.println("Unable to make HTTP request due to an exception:");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

SuperSimpleHTTPExample.java

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