Currency converter service

I am attaching a simple program about, How to write Simple Currency Converter using Java Program. The program was written using Fixer Currency Converter Webservice. In this example, I am using Gson 2.8.0 API to convert JSON to Object in Java. you can download API from here.

CurrencyConversionResponse.java

package com.kishore.generic;

import java.util.Map;

import java.util.TreeMap;

public class CurrencyConversionResponse {

    private String base;

    private String date;

    private Map<String, String> rates = new TreeMap<String, String>();

    public Map<String, String> getRates() {

        return rates;

    }

    public void setRates(Map<String, String> rates) {

        this.rates = rates;

    }

    public String getBase() {

        return base;

    }

    public void setBase(String base) {

        this.base = base;

    }

    public String getDate() {

        return date;

    }

    public void setDate(String date) {

        this.date = date;

    }

}

CurrencyConvertor.java

package com.kishore.generic;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InputStream;

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import java.net.URL;

import java.util.Scanner;

import com.google.gson.Gson;

public class CurrencyConvertor {

    // API Provider URL

    private static final String API_PROVDIER = "http://api.fixer.io/";

    public static double convert(String fromCurrencyCode, String toCurrencyCode) {

        if ((fromCurrencyCode != null && !fromCurrencyCode.isEmpty())

                && (toCurrencyCode != null && !toCurrencyCode.isEmpty())) {

            CurrencyConversionResponse response = getResponse(API_PROVDIER

                    + "/latest?base=" + fromCurrencyCode);

            if (response != null) {

                String rate = response.getRates().get(toCurrencyCode);

                double conversionRate = Double.valueOf((rate != null) ? rate: "0.0");

                return conversionRate;

            }

        }

        return 0.0;

    }

    // Method to get the response from API

    private static CurrencyConversionResponse getResponse(String strUrl) {

        CurrencyConversionResponse response = null;

        Gson gson = new Gson();

        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();

        if (strUrl == null || strUrl.isEmpty()) {

            System.out.println("Application Error");

            return null;

        }

        URL url;

        try {

            url = new URL(strUrl);

            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url

                    .openConnection();

            InputStream stream = connection.getInputStream();

            int data = stream.read();

            while (data != -1) {

                sb.append((char) data);

                data = stream.read();

            }

            stream.close();

            response = gson.fromJson(sb.toString(),

                    CurrencyConversionResponse.class);

        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {

            System.out.println(e.getMessage());

            e.printStackTrace();

        } catch (IOException e) {

            System.out.println(e.getMessage());

            e.printStackTrace();

        }

        return response;

    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);

        System.out.println("What is your currency code ?");

        String fromCurrencyCode = scanner.next();

        System.out.println("Enter the Amount :");

        double amount = scanner.nextDouble();

        System.out

                .println("Enter the Currency Code that you want to covert : ");

        String toCurrencyCode = scanner.next();

        fromCurrencyCode = fromCurrencyCode.toUpperCase();

        toCurrencyCode = toCurrencyCode.toUpperCase();

        // Currency Conversion

        double coversionRate = convert(fromCurrencyCode, toCurrencyCode);

        System.out.println("Hi, The " + amount + " " + fromCurrencyCode

                + " is equivalent to " + (coversionRate * amount) + " "

                + toCurrencyCode + " today.");

        scanner.close();

    }

}

Output

What is your currency code?

USD

Enter the Amount :

1

Enter the Currency Code that you want to covert : 

GBP

Hi, The 1.0 USD is equivalent to 0.77341 GBP today.