Getting the status code and response body was this easy in version 4:
StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(jsonData.toString());
HttpResponse r = org.apache.http.client.fluent.Request.Post(uri)
.connectTimeout(10*1000)
.socketTimeout(10*1000)
.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
.body(entity)
.execute()
.returnResponse();
int status = r.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
String body = EntityUtils.toString(r.getEntity(), "UTF-8");
return new CoolResponse(status, body);
But now in httpclient5 for some reason it isn't possible to get anything relating to the response body from an HttpResponse. Very confused by this. If I follow example 3 in their quickstart (https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-5.0.x/quickstart.html) it proposes I create an CloseableHttpClient, an HttpGet and a CloseableHttpResponse, but none of those allow you to set a connection timeout. Trying to find the best of both worlds but the options seem kind of scrambled here.