How to send and receive JSON data from a restful webservice using Jersey API

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@Path("/hello")
public class Hello {

    @POST
    @Path("{id}")
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    public JSONObject sayPlainTextHello(@PathParam("id")JSONObject inputJsonObj) {

        String input = (String) inputJsonObj.get("input");
        String output="The input you sent is :"+input;
        JSONObject outputJsonObj = new JSONObject();
        outputJsonObj.put("output", output);

        return outputJsonObj;
    }
}

This is my webservice (I am using Jersey API). But I could not figure out a way to call this method from a java rest client to send and receive the json data. I tried the following way to write the client

ClientConfig config = new DefaultClientConfig();
Client client = Client.create(config);
WebResource service = client.resource(getBaseURI());
JSONObject inputJsonObj = new JSONObject();
inputJsonObj.put("input", "Value");
System.out.println(service.path("rest").path("hello").accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).entity(inputJsonObj).post(JSONObject.class,JSONObject.class));

But this shows the following error

Exception in thread "main" com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandlerException: com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandlerException: A message body writer for Java type, class java.lang.Class, and MIME media type, application/octet-stream, was not found

please improve your question by adding java as a tag and including 'Jersey API' in the title. — thaJeztah
– thaJeztah, Commented Jan 30, 2013 at 19:00

Arul Dhesiaseelan · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-31 08:24:34Z

22

Your use of @PathParam is incorrect. It does not follow these requirements as documented in the javadoc here. I believe you just want to POST the JSON entity. You can fix this in your resource method to accept JSON entity.

@Path("/hello")
public class Hello {

  @POST
  @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
  @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
  public JSONObject sayPlainTextHello(JSONObject inputJsonObj) throws Exception {

    String input = (String) inputJsonObj.get("input");
    String output = "The input you sent is :" + input;
    JSONObject outputJsonObj = new JSONObject();
    outputJsonObj.put("output", output);

    return outputJsonObj;
  }
}

And, your client code should look like this:

  ClientConfig config = new DefaultClientConfig();
  Client client = Client.create(config);
  client.addFilter(new LoggingFilter());
  WebResource service = client.resource(getBaseURI());
  JSONObject inputJsonObj = new JSONObject();
  inputJsonObj.put("input", "Value");
  System.out.println(service.path("rest").path("hello").accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).post(JSONObject.class, inputJsonObj));

answered Jan 31, 2013 at 8:24

Arul Dhesiaseelan

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Pugal Over a year ago

For future Developers/ readers, this answer gives expected output. But You should import correct jar files. In my case I had org.json files and others in jersey. So getting error.. After import com.sun.jersey from here runs fine...

shreedhar bhat · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-28 06:24:02Z

For me, parameter (JSONObject inputJsonObj) was not working. I am using jersey 2.* Hence I feel this is the

java(Jax-rs) and Angular way

I hope it's helpful to someone using JAVA Rest and AngularJS like me.

@POST
@Consumes(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public Map<String, String> methodName(String data) throws Exception {
    JSONObject recoData = new JSONObject(data);
    //Do whatever with json object
}

Client side I used AngularJS

factory.update = function () {
data = {user:'Shreedhar Bhat',address:[{houseNo:105},{city:'Bengaluru'}]};
        data= JSON.stringify(data);//Convert object to string
        var d = $q.defer();
        $http({
            method: 'POST',
            url: 'REST/webApp/update',
            headers: {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'},
            data:data
        })
        .success(function (response) {
            d.resolve(response);
        })
        .error(function (response) {
            d.reject(response);
        });

        return d.promise;
    };

Prakhar Agrawal · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-06 06:10:22Z

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The above problem can be solved by adding the following dependencies in your project, as i was facing the same problem.For more detail answer to this solution please refer link SEVERE:MessageBodyWriter not found for media type=application/xml type=class java.util.HashMap

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
        <version>1.9.0</version>
    </dependency>


    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
        <version>2.9.2</version>
    </dependency>   


    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
        <artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson</artifactId>
        <version>2.25</version>
    </dependency>

edited Dec 6, 2018 at 6:10

answered Dec 6, 2018 at 6:04

Prakhar Agrawal

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Prakhar Agrawal Over a year ago

The last dependency is used to accept the json in the post call using jersey rest and the above two is to get the json from the rest as a response.

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