How to consume stream response body using Apache HC - rest

Question

I am using a REST API, which returns continouous real-time streaming response body. The response body stream is opening continuously. I want to read this streamed response through Apache Http Components.
Any help is appreciated.
[UPDATE]
My response is similar to this demo
https://github.com/brianhempel/stream_json_demo

Answer 1

You have to set up a client to send and recieve stream response from API.
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://localhost/something");
post.setHeader("Referer", "http://localhost/something");
post.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic (with a username and password)");
post.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
// if you need any parameters
List<NameValuePair> urlParameters = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
urlParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("paramName", "paramValue"));
post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(urlParameters));
HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
Header encodingHeader = entity.getContentEncoding();
// you need to know the encoding to parse correctly
Charset encoding = encodingHeader == null ? StandardCharsets.UTF_8 :
Charsets.toCharset(encodingHeader.getValue());
// use org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils to read json as string
String json = EntityUtils.toString(entity, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
JSONObject o = new JSONObject(json);
You can get apache HTTP client library from here http://hc.apache.org/ and commons-io