This will POST with MIME type application/x-www-form-urlencoded
. It is using apache httpclient, which is already included with mirth, as it is used internally by the HTTP Sender connector, as well as some other functionality. Other solutions may require you to download jars and add library resources.
Closer is part of Google Guava, which is also already included with mirth.
Check comments where Rhino javascript allows for simplified code compared to direct Java conversion.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to wrap all of this up in a code template function.
var result;
// Using block level Java class imports
with (JavaImporter(
org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils,
org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost,
org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity,
org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients,
org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair,
com.google.common.io.Closer))
{
var closer = Closer.create();
try {
var httpclient = closer.register(HttpClients.createDefault());
var httpPost = new HttpPost('http://localhost:9919/myphpscript.php');
// javascript array as java List
var postParameters = [
new BasicNameValuePair("firstname", "John"),
new BasicNameValuePair("lastname", "Smith")
];
// Rhino JavaBean access to set property
// Same as httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(postParameters, "UTF-8"));
httpPost.entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(postParameters, "UTF-8");
var response = closer.register(httpclient.execute(httpPost));
// Rhino JavaBean access to get properties
// Same as var is = response.getEntity().getContent();
var is = closer.register(response.entity.content);
result = IOUtils.toString(is, 'UTF-8');
} finally {
closer.close();
}
}
logger.info(result);