android post

new Thread(new Runnable(){
   @Override
   public void run() {
       // TODO Auto-generated method stub        
   
    POST("http://210.243.166.178/apps/Exhibition/api/getSpecificData.php");
   }          
}).start();








public static String POST(String url){
        InputStream inputStream = null;
        String result = "";
        try {

            // 1. create HttpClient
            HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

            // 2. make POST request to the given URL
            HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);

            String json = "";

            // 3. build jsonObject
            JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
            jsonObject.accumulate("name","test");
            jsonObject.accumulate("number","001");

            // 4. convert JSONObject to JSON to String
            json = jsonObject.toString();

            // ** Alternative way to convert Person object to JSON string usin Jackson Lib
            // ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
            // json = mapper.writeValueAsString(person);

            // 5. set json to StringEntity
            StringEntity se = new StringEntity(json);

            // 6. set httpPost Entity
            httpPost.setEntity(se);

            // 7. Set some headers to inform server about the type of the content
            httpPost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
            httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");

            // 8. Execute POST request to the given URL
            HttpResponse httpResponse = httpclient.execute(httpPost);

            // 9. receive response as inputStream
            inputStream = httpResponse.getEntity().getContent();

            // 10. convert inputstream to string
            if(inputStream != null)
                result = convertInputStreamToString(inputStream);
            else
                result = "Did not work!";
         
            Log.d("ddddd", "ddddd result:"+result);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.d("InputStream", e.getLocalizedMessage());
        }

        // 11. return result
        return result;
    }
private static String convertInputStreamToString(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException{
       BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
       String line = "";
       String result = "";
       while((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null)
           result += line;

       inputStream.close();
       return result;

   }