curlconverter/fixtures/java/put_basic_auth_json_data.java

import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Scanner;

class Main {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
		URL url = new URL("http://localhost:5984/test/_security");
		HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
		httpConn.setRequestMethod("PUT");

		httpConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

		byte[] message = ("admin:123").getBytes("UTF-8");
		String basicAuth = DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(message);
		httpConn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + basicAuth);

		httpConn.setDoOutput(true);
		OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(httpConn.getOutputStream());
		writer.write("{\"admins\":{\"names\":[], \"roles\":[]}, \"readers\":{\"names\":[\"joe\"],\"roles\":[]}}");
		writer.flush();
		writer.close();
		httpConn.getOutputStream().close();

		InputStream responseStream = httpConn.getResponseCode() / 100 == 2
				? httpConn.getInputStream()
				: httpConn.getErrorStream();
		Scanner s = new Scanner(responseStream).useDelimiter("\\A");
		String response = s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
		System.out.println(response);
	}
}