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+package org.json.util;
+
+/************************************************************************************************
+ *                                                                                              *
+ * This class contains static methods for reading and parsing http json response                *
+ *                                                                                              *
+ *                                                                                              *
+ *                                                                                              *
+ *                                 Copyright Gamal Shaban 2012.                                 *
+ *                                     gemy21ce@gmail.com                                       *
+ *                                                                                              *
+ *                                                                                              *
+ *                                                                                              *
+ *                                                                                              *
+ ************************************************************************************************/
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import org.json.JSONException;
+import org.json.JSONObject;
+
+/**
+ * This provides reading json from http response,parse it into json object.
+ *
+ * @author Gamal Shaban
+ */
+public final class HttpJSONReader {
+
+    /**
+     * read from the Reader object.
+     *
+     * @param rd
+     * @return
+     * @throws IOException
+     */
+    protected static String readAll(Reader rd) throws IOException {
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+        int cp;
+        while ((cp = rd.read()) != -1) {
+            sb.append((char) cp);
+        }
+        return sb.toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * read the url and passes the response as String.
+     *
+     * @param url
+     * @return
+     */
+    public static String readOnly(String url) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
+        
+        InputStream is = new URL(url).openStream();
+        //surround the statments with try and finally so make sure that inputstream will be closed.
+        try {
+            BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
+            String jsonText = readAll(rd);
+            return jsonText;
+        } finally {
+            is.close();
+        }
+
+
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * reads the url and passes the response as json object.
+     *
+     * @param url
+     * @return
+     */
+    public static JSONObject readAndParse(String url) throws JSONException, MalformedURLException, IOException  {
+        //call the readOnly method and parse the json.
+        JSONObject json = new JSONObject(readOnly(url));
+        return json;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * parse a json string and returns the json object representation.
+     *
+     * @param jsonString
+     * @return
+     */
+    public static JSONObject parse(String jsonString) throws JSONException {
+        return new JSONObject(jsonString);
+    }
+}