Java example of using API to notify CronSentry upon a job completion

CronsentryNotifyApp.java

// Java example of using API to notify CronSentry upon a job completion
// For API documentation please go to http://www.cronsentry.com/help#api
// The example uses Apache HttpComponents http://hc.apache.org/

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class CronsentryNotifyApp {

  public static void main(String args[]) {
	
    try {
      // set POST variables
      HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost("http://api.cronsentry.com/api/v1/notifications");

      List <NameValuePair> nvps = new ArrayList <NameValuePair>();
      nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("api_key", "YOUR_API_KEY"));
      nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("job_name", "Your job name"));
      nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("status", "1"));
      nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("message", "Please change me"));

      httpost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nvps));

      // do POST
      DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
      HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpost);

      // check response
      System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
      System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity()));
    } catch (java.io.IOException ex) {
    }		
  }
}