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TOTD #58: Jersey and GlassFish - how to process POST requests ?

Posted by arungupta on December 1, 2008 at 9:30 AM EST

Lets extend the Jersey endpoint (TOTD# 56) and client (TOTD# 57) such that it can accept a POST request and then invoke it.
  1. Add a new method to "MyResource.java" from TOTD# 56 as:

        @POST
        @Consumes("application/json")
        @Produces("application/json")
        public Greeting postIt(Greeting greeting) {
            System.out.println("In POST: " + greeting.greeting);
            return greeting;
        }

    The first line indicates that the Java method will process HTTP POST requests. The second and third line shows that the method consumes and produces JSON data format.
  2. Add a new method to "AppTest.java" from TOTD# 57 as:

        public void testPost() {
            Greeting result = createResource().
                    type("application/json").
                    post(Greeting.class, new Greeting("yo!"));
            assertTrue(result.greeting.equals("yo!"));
        }

    The main difference from the "testApp()" method is specifying the MIME type of the generated outbound request as "application/json".
  3. Running the test as "mvn test" shows the following output:

    Running org.glassfish.samples.AppTest
    1 * Out-bound request
    1 > GET http://localhost:8080/helloworld-webapp/webresources/myresource
    1 >
    1 < 200
    1 < X-Powered-By: Servlet/2.5
    1 < Transfer-Encoding: chunked
    1 < Content-Type: text/plain
    1 < Server: GlassFish/v3
    1 < Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:19:34 GMT
    1 <
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><greeting><greeting>Hi there!</greeting></greeting>
    1 * In-bound response
    1 * Out-bound request
    1 > POST http://localhost:8080/helloworld-webapp/webresources/myresource
    1 > Content-Type: application/json
    1 >
    {"greeting":"yo!"}
    1 < 200
    1 < X-Powered-By: Servlet/2.5
    1 < Transfer-Encoding: chunked
    1 < Content-Type: application/json
    1 < Server: GlassFish/v3
    1 < Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:19:34 GMT
    1 <
    {"greeting":"yo!"}
    1 * In-bound response
    Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 1.191 sec

    The output shows request/response messages when both the tests are run together. Here are some highlights:
    1. "GET" and "POST" methods are clearly highlighted.
    2. The two "Content-Type" headers with value "text/plain" and "application/json" are output from two tests. The output from POST method has two Content-Type headers, one for outbound request and another one for inbound response.
    3. The body content of POST method is using JSON format.
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