public String post()

in src/main/java/com/vmware/vim/rest/RestClient.java [153:199]
37 lines of code
3 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

  public String post(String urlStr, Map<String, String> para) throws Exception
  {
    urlStr = preProcessUrl(urlStr);
    
    HttpURLConnection getCon = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(
        urlStr).openConnection();
    getCon.connect();
    String cookie = getCon.getHeaderField("Set-Cookie");
    cookie = cookie.substring(0, cookie.indexOf(";"));
    
    //As of 4.1u1, a hidden input is added into form, shown as follows
    //<input name="vmware-session-nonce" type="hidden" value="52f3d5cc-5664-6d09-cd3a-73869a2de488">
    String nonceStr = findVMwareSessionNonce(getCon.getInputStream());
    
    HttpURLConnection postCon = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(urlStr).openConnection();
    postCon.setRequestMethod("POST");
    postCon.setDoOutput(true);
    postCon.setDoInput(true);
    postCon.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookie);

    OutputStream os = postCon.getOutputStream();
    OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(os);
    
    if(nonceStr!=null)
    {
      out.write(NONCE + "=" + nonceStr);
    }

    Iterator<String> keys = para.keySet().iterator();
    while(keys.hasNext())
    {
      String key = keys.next();
      String value = para.get(key);
      key = URLEncoder.encode(key, "UTF-8");
      value = URLEncoder.encode(value, "UTF-8");
      out.write(key + "=" + value);
    }
    out.close();

    InputStream is = postCon.getInputStream();
    StringBuffer sb = readStream(is);
    String resultFlag = "Method Invocation Result:";
    int start = sb.indexOf(resultFlag);

    String result = sb.substring(start + resultFlag.length());
    return ResultConverter.convert2Xml(result);
  }