Template:Base Code for Consuming API Using Java

private void SendReceiveJSON(String json, String url) throws Exception { 
   HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
   try {
     HttpPost request = new HttpPost("https://updoxqa.com/io/ping");
     StringEntity params = new StringEntity("{}");
     request.addHeader("content-type", "text/json");
     request.setEntity(params);
     HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);
   } catch (Exception ex) {
     // handle exception here
   } finally {
     httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
 }