Ultradox complex POST parameters

Google Apps Script.js

function postComplex() {
  // to show that stringifying real dates does work as well
  var date = new Date();
  var events = {
    name: "Olli",
    events: [
      {
        title: "Strategy Meeting",
        startTime: "Fri Feb 01 10:00:00 CET 2013",
        endTime: "Fri Feb 01 11:30:00 CET 2013",
        description: "Discussion of the floreysoft strategy",
        location: "Telemannstraße 22, 20255 Hamburg"
      }, {
        title: "Dinner",
        startTime: "Fri Feb 01 20:00:00 CET 2013",
        endTime: date,
        description: "Dinner with Le Chef",
        location: "Gaußstraße 3, 22765 Hamburg"
      }
    ]
  };
 
   var options = {
     contentType: "application/json",
     method : "post",
     payload : Utilities.jsonStringify(events)
  };
  
  var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch('http://www.ultradox.com/ultradoc/execute?id=kNjCQaAALBCCtRH7gSJvasHF5fqJIW&action=DOWNLOAD&locale=DE',options)
  var blob = response.getBlob();
  var code = response.getResponseCode();
  Logger.log(code === 200 ? "Success" : "Error Code: " + code); 

  // sending out email just for demo purposes
  // in real applications send out personalized emails using Ultradox instead
  GmailApp.sendEmail("[your email goes here to send this to yourself]", "Your generated document", "See attachment", 
                     { attachments: [
                       {fileName: blob.getName(), mimeType: "application/pdf", content: blob.getBytes()}
                     ]
                     }); 
}

Google App Engine Java.java

import static com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.FetchOptions.Builder.withDefaults;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.HTTPHeader;
import com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.HTTPMethod;
import com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.HTTPRequest;
import com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.HTTPResponse;
import com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.URLFetchService;
import com.google.appengine.api.urlfetch.URLFetchServiceFactory;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class App_Engine_SandboxServlet extends HttpServlet {
  public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
  		throws IOException {
		// this example requires GSON: http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/
		URLFetchService urlFetchService = URLFetchServiceFactory
				.getURLFetchService();
		URL url = new URL(
				"http://www.ultradox.com/ultradoc/execute?id=kNjCQaAALBCCtRH7gSJvasHF5fqJIW&action=DOWNLOAD&locale=DE");
		HTTPRequest request = new HTTPRequest(url, HTTPMethod.POST,
				withDefaults().setDeadline(30.0));
		Events events = new Events("Olli");
		events.addEvent(new Event("Strategy Meeting", new Date(113, 01, 01,
		        10, 00), new Date(113, 01, 01, 11, 30),
		        "Discussion of the floreysoft strategy",
		        "Telemannstraße 22, 20255 Hamburg"));
		events.addEvent(new Event("Dinner", new Date(113, 01, 01,
		        20, 00), new Date(113, 01, 01, 22, 30),
		        "Dinner with Le Chef",
		        "Gaußstraße 3, 22765 Hamburg"));
		        
		// use ISO8601 date format for best compatibility
		Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX").create();
		String json = gson.toJson(events);
		request.setPayload(json.getBytes("UTF-8"));
		request.setHeader(new HTTPHeader("Content-Type", "application/json"));
		HTTPResponse response = urlFetchService.fetch(request);
		int code = response.getResponseCode();
		if (code == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK ) {
			byte[] content = response.getContent();
			resp.getOutputStream().write(content);
		}
	}

	public static class Events {
		String name;
		List<Event> events;

		public Events(String name) {
			this.name = name;
			events = new ArrayList<Event>();
		}

		public void addEvent(Event event) {
			events.add(event);
		}
	}

	public static class Event {
		String title;
		Date startTime;
		Date endTime;
		String description;
		String location;

		public Event(String title, Date startTime, Date endTime,
				String description, String location) {
			super();
			this.title = title;
			this.startTime = startTime;
			this.endTime = endTime;
			this.description = description;
			this.location = location;
		}

	}
}

Plain Java.java

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;

public class DownloadComplex {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		URL url = new URL(
				"http://www.ultradox.com/ultradoc/execute?id=kNjCQaAALBCCtRH7gSJvasHF5fqJIW&action=DOWNLOAD&locale=DE");
		HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
		connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
		connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
		connection.setDoInput(true);
		connection.setDoOutput(true);

		// use ISO8601 date format for best compatibility
		Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX").create();
		Events events = new Events("Olli");
		events.addEvent(new Event("Strategy Meeting", new Date(113, 01, 01,
				10, 00), new Date(113, 01, 01, 11, 30),
				"Discussion of the floreysoft strategy",
				"Telemannstraße 22, 20255 Hamburg"));
		events.addEvent(new Event("Dinner", new Date(113, 01, 01,
				20, 00), new Date(113, 01, 01, 22, 30),
				"Dinner with Le Chef",
				"Gaußstraße 3, 22765 Hamburg"));
		String json = gson.toJson(events);
		byte[] bytes = json.getBytes("UTF-8"); // encoding is important when you are outside of ASCII
		connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length",
				Integer.toString(bytes.length));
		OutputStream os = connection.getOutputStream();
		os.write(bytes);
		os.close();

		InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
		FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(new File(
				"processed.pdf"));
		transfer(inputStream, outputStream);
	}

	private static void transfer(InputStream inputStream,
			OutputStream outputStream) throws IOException {
		byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
		int len;
		while ((len = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
			outputStream.write(buffer, 0, len);
		}
	}

	public static class Events {
		String name;
		List<Event> events;

		public Events(String name) {
			this.name = name;
			events = new ArrayList<Event>();
		}

		public void addEvent(Event event) {
			events.add(event);
		}
	}

	public static class Event {
		String title;
		Date startTime;
		Date endTime;
		String description;
		String location;

		public Event(String title, Date startTime, Date endTime,
				String description, String location) {
			super();
			this.title = title;
			this.startTime = startTime;
			this.endTime = endTime;
			this.description = description;
			this.location = location;
		}

	}

}