HttpClient(4.3.5)

The simplest and the most convenient way to handle responses is by using the ResponseHandler interface, which includes the handleResponse(HttpResponse response) method. This method completely relieves the user from having to worry about connection management. When using a ResponseHandler, HttpClient will automatically take care of ensuring release of the connection back to the connection manager regardless whether the request execution succeeds or causes an exception.

CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://localhost/json");

ResponseHandler<MyJsonObject> rh = new ResponseHandler<MyJsonObject>() {

    @Override
    public JsonObject handleResponse(
            final HttpResponse response) throws IOException {
        StatusLine statusLine = response.getStatusLine();
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        if (statusLine.getStatusCode() >= 300) {
            throw new HttpResponseException(
                    statusLine.getStatusCode(),
                    statusLine.getReasonPhrase());
        }
        if (entity == null) {
            throw new ClientProtocolException("Response contains no content");
        }
        Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();
        ContentType contentType = ContentType.getOrDefault(entity);
        Charset charset = contentType.getCharset();
        Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(entity.getContent(), charset);
        return gson.fromJson(reader, MyJsonObject.class);
    }
};
MyJsonObject myjson = client.execute(httpget, rh);