Get body of Bad Request httpURLConnection.getInputStream() - httpurlconnection

Question

I've been working on a portlet that calls Rest API. When the API is called and the requested data doesn't exist, it returns an appropriate error message in JSON format (with Bad request http code - 400), and if the id exists, it returns the requested data in json (with code 200).
How can I get the body of response (that contains error description) because invoking httpConn.getInputStream() method throws exception in case the response is bad request error.
Code:
HttpURLConnection httpConn = null;
URL url = new URL("http://192.168.1.20/personinfo.html?id=30");
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) connection;
httpConn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
httpConn.setRequestMethod("GET");
httpConn.setRequestProperty("charset", "utf-8");
BufferedReader br = null;
if (!(httpConn.getResponseCode() == 400)) {
br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader((httpConn.getInputStream())));
String output;
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
System.out.println("Output from Server .... \n");
while ((output = br.readLine()) != null)
builder.append(output);
return builder.toString();
}else
here should catch the error message. :)

Answer 1

In case of non-successful response codes, you have to read the body with HttpURLConnection.getErrorStream().

Answer 2

you can get body of Bad Request in HttpURLConnection using this code :
InputStream errorstream = connection.getErrorStream();
String response = "";
String line;
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(errorstream));
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
response += line;
}
Log.d("body of Bad Request HttpURLConnection", "Response: " + response);

Answer 3

Use Apache Httpclient:
String url = "http://192.168.1.6:7003/life/lifews/getFirstInstallment.html?rootPolicyNo=1392/2126/2/106/9995/1904&token=1984";
HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);
// add request header
HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
System.out.println("Response Code : " + response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()));
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
String line = "";
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null)
result.append(line);
System.out.println(result);