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Processing response with response.entity in HttpClient

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;

public class ClientConnectionRelease {

public final static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try {
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(“http://httpbin.org/get”);

System.out.println(“Executing request ” + httpget.getRequestLine());
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
try {
System.out.println(“—————————————-“);
System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());

// Get hold of the response entity
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

// If the response does not enclose an entity, there is no need to bother about connection release
if (entity != null) {
InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
try {
instream.read();
// do something useful with the response here….

} catch (IOException ex) {
throw ex;
} finally {
// Closing the input stream will trigger connection release
instream.close();
}
}
} finally {
response.close();
}
} finally {
httpclient.close();
}
}

}