How to send Send form-urlencoded parameters in post request android volley?

We have to override the getBodyContentType() method in volley to enable “form-urlencoded parameters” in POST request using Volley.
Here is how the code will look like.

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Code – Method 1

StringRequest jsonObjRequest = new StringRequest(Request.Method.POST,
		getResources().getString(R.string.base_url),
		new Response.Listener<String>() {
			@Override
			public void onResponse(String response) {
				Log.i(TAG, "Success");
			}
		}, new Response.ErrorListener() {

			@Override
			public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
				VolleyLog.d("volley", "Error: " + error.getMessage());
				error.printStackTrace();
				Log.e(TAG, "Success");
			}
		}) {

	@Override
	public String getBodyContentType() {
		return "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8";
	}

	@Override
	protected Map<String, String> getParams() throws AuthFailureError {
		Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
		params.put("username", edtUsername.getText().toString().trim());
		params.put("password", edtPwd.getText().toString().trim());
		return params;
	}

};

AppController.getInstance().addToRequestQueue(jsonObjRequest);

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Here is another method for achieving the same thing.

Code – Method 2

createPostBody

We will create post body first where we will specify the encoding.

public static final String BOUNDARY = "ANY_STRING";

private String createPostBody(Map<String, String> params) {
	StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
	for (String key : params.keySet()) {
		if (params.get(key) != null) {
			sb.append("\r\n" + "--" + BOUNDARY + "\r\n");
			sb.append("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" 
                                   + key + "\"" + "\r\n\r\n");
			sb.append(params.get(key));
		}
	}

	return sbPost.toString();
}

Override the getBody() function

We will use the Post Body here in this function.

@Override
public byte[] getBody() {
	Map<String,String> params = new HashMap<>();
	params.add("user_id", userId);
	String postBody = createPostBody(params);
	return postBody.getBytes();
}

Override the getHeaders() function

You will need to override getHeaders() as well to tell the server what you boundary is :

@Override
public Map<String, String> getHeaders() throws AuthFailureError {
	final HashMap<String, String> headers = new HashMap<>();
	headers.put("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data;boundary=" + BOUNDARY;);
	return headers;
}

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