public class AndroidServiceConnection implements ServiceConnection {
	private static HttpConnectionManager connectionManager = new SimpleHttpConnectionManager();
	private HttpConnection connection;
	private PostMethod postMethod;
	private java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream bufferStream = null;

	/**
	 * Constructor taking the url to the endpoint for this soap communication
	 * @param url the url to open the connection to.
	 */
	public AndroidServiceConnection(String url) throws IOException {
		HttpURL httpURL = new HttpURL(url);
		HostConfiguration host = new HostConfiguration();
		host.setHost(httpURL.getHost(), httpURL.getPort());
		connection = connectionManager.getConnection(host);
		postMethod = new PostMethod(url);
	}

	@Override
	public void connect() throws IOException {
		if (!connection.isOpen()) {
			connection.open();
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void disconnect() {
		connection.releaseConnection();
	}

	@Override
	public void setRequestProperty(String name, String value) {
		postMethod.setRequestHeader(name, value);
	}

	@Override
	public void setRequestMethod(String requestMethod) throws IOException {
		if (!requestMethod.toLowerCase().equals("post")) {
			throw(new IOException("Only POST method is supported"));
		}
	}

	@Override
	public OutputStream openOutputStream() throws IOException {
		bufferStream = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();
		return bufferStream;
	}

	@Override
	public InputStream openInputStream() throws IOException {
		RequestEntity re = new ByteArrayRequestEntity(bufferStream.toByteArray());
		postMethod.setRequestEntity(re);
		postMethod.execute(new HttpState(), connection);
		return postMethod.getResponseBodyAsStream();
	}

	@Override
	public InputStream getErrorStream() {
		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public String getHost() {
		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public String getPath() {
		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public int getPort() {
		return 0;
	}

	@Override
	public List<?> getResponseProperties() throws IOException {
		return null;
	}
}