通过HttpUrlConnection在Thread中等待响应

Question

我有一个函数，它将url请求发送到服务器并获取数据。我能够获取数据，但由于请求是在另一个线程中发送的，因此数据迟到了。

我希望用户等待请求（用于登录身份验证）。怎么做到这一点？

private String sendRequest(final String URL) {
     StrictMode.ThreadPolicy policy = new StrictMode.
     ThreadPolicy.Builder().permitAll().build();
     StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(policy);

     new Thread(new Runnable() {
       public void run() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            HttpURLConnection httpUrlConnection = null;

            try {
                httpUrlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(URL)
                        .openConnection();

                InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(
                        httpUrlConnection.getInputStream());

                data = readStream(in);
                Log.i(TAG,"Respose from "+URL);
                System.out.println(data);

            } catch (MalformedURLException exception) {
                Log.e(TAG, "MalformedURLException");
            } catch (IOException exception) {
                Log.e(TAG, "IOException");
            } finally {
                if (null != httpUrlConnection)
                    httpUrlConnection.disconnect();
            }
       }                        
}).start();

return data;
}

我在上面调用了这个函数

public JSONObject get(String URL){

        data = sendRequest(URL);        

        try {
            if(null!=data){
                returnJsonObj = new JSONObject(data);
            }else{
                Log.i(TAG,"Response data is null");
            }

        } catch (JSONException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return returnJsonObj;   
    }

如何在获取功能中等待数据。