2 files changed, 40 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/org/traccar/BasePipelineFactory.java b/src/org/traccar/BasePipelineFactory.java
index aa188d209..5a077da7c 100644
--- a/src/org/traccar/BasePipelineFactory.java
+++ b/src/org/traccar/BasePipelineFactory.java
@@ -238,7 +238,8 @@ public abstract class BasePipelineFactory implements ChannelPipelineFactory {
         }
 
         if (Context.getConfig().getBoolean("forward.enable")) {
-            pipeline.addLast("webHandler", new WebDataHandler(Context.getConfig().getString("forward.url")));
+            pipeline.addLast("webHandler", new WebDataHandler(Context.getConfig().getString("forward.url"),
+                    Context.getConfig().getBoolean("forward.json")));
         }
 
         if (commandResultEventHandler != null) {
diff --git a/src/org/traccar/WebDataHandler.java b/src/org/traccar/WebDataHandler.java
index 401216276..adc82486c 100644
--- a/src/org/traccar/WebDataHandler.java
+++ b/src/org/traccar/WebDataHandler.java
@@ -16,11 +16,14 @@
 package org.traccar;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.ning.http.client.AsyncHttpClient;
 import org.traccar.helper.Checksum;
 import org.traccar.helper.Log;
 import org.traccar.model.Device;
 import org.traccar.model.Position;
 
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.URLEncoder;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
@@ -32,9 +35,13 @@ import java.util.TimeZone;
 public class WebDataHandler extends BaseDataHandler {
 
     private final String url;
+    private final boolean json;
+    private static final String KEY_POSITION = "position";
+    private static final String KEY_DEVICE = "device";
 
-    public WebDataHandler(String url) {
+    public WebDataHandler(String url, boolean json) {
         this.url = url;
+        this.json = json;
     }
 
     private static String formatSentence(Position position) {
@@ -121,10 +128,39 @@ public class WebDataHandler extends BaseDataHandler {
 
     @Override
     protected Position handlePosition(Position position) {
+        if (json) {
+            AsyncHttpClient.BoundRequestBuilder requestBuilder = Context.getAsyncHttpClient().preparePost(url);
+            requestBuilder.setBodyEncoding(StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
 
-        Context.getAsyncHttpClient().prepareGet(formatRequest(position)).execute();
+            requestBuilder.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
 
+            requestBuilder.setBody(prepareJsonPayload(position));
+            requestBuilder.execute();
+
+        } else {
+            Context.getAsyncHttpClient().prepareGet(formatRequest(position)).execute();
+        }
         return position;
     }
 
+    protected String prepareJsonPayload(Position position) {
+
+        Map<String, Object> data = new HashMap<>();
+        Device device = Context.getIdentityManager().getById(position.getDeviceId());
+
+        if (position != null) {
+            data.put(KEY_POSITION, position);
+        }
+
+        if (device != null) {
+            data.put(KEY_DEVICE, device);
+        }
+
+        try {
+            return Context.getObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(data);
+        } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
+            Log.warning(e);
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
 }