Convert curl command into RestTemplate

Question

I have the following curl expression:

curl --data 'api_key=API_Key' --data-urlencode 'event=[{"user_id":"12345", "event_type":"buy_song"}]' https://someapi

which should be converted into RestTemplate.postForEntity call. I do conversion this way:

HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED);

MultiValueMap<String, String> params = new LinkedMultiValueMap<>();
params.add("api_key", "API_Key");
params.add("event", URLEncoder.encode(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(Collections.singletonList(e)), "UTF-8"));

// send
HttpEntity<MultiValueMap<String, String>> request = new HttpEntity<>(params, headers);
ResponseEntity<String> response = restTemplate.postForEntity("https://someapi", request, String.class);

Server returns 400 Bad request

I confirm that Jackson's objectmapper serializes the object correctly objectMapper.writeValueAsString(Collections.singletonList(e))

I suspect that I cannot correctly handle the mix of --data and --data-urlencode from example curl in RestTemplate.

Could you please suggest what am I doing wrong?

corroborator · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-31 09:41:39Z

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  // org.apache.commons.collections.map.HashedMap     
  HashedMap requestBody = new HashedMap();
      requestBody.put("api_key", "API_Key");
      requestBody.put("event", URLEncoder.encode(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(Collections.singletonList(e)), "UTF-8"));   

        HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
        headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED);
       String jsonBody = new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(requestBody);
       HttpEntity<String> entity = new HttpEntity<>(jsonBody, headers);

        ResponseEntity<String> response = restTemplate.postForEntity("https://someapi", entity, String.class);

edited May 31, 2019 at 9:41

answered May 31, 2019 at 9:20

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MyTwoCents · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-31 09:48:23Z

I think the only problem is MediaType, Data which you are sending is not form Data (APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED)

It's json data so you need to use MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON Something like this

HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);

// converting form variable to Map
MultiValueMap<String, String> map= new LinkedMultiValueMap<>();
map.add("api_key", "API_Key");
map.add("event", URLEncoder.encode(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(Collections.singletonList(e)), "UTF-8"));

// finally build Request
HttpEntity<MultiValueMap<String, String>> request = new HttpEntity<>(map, headers);

ResponseEntity<String> response = restTemplate.postForEntity(
  apiUrl, request , String.class);

Refer this for more detail on RestTemplate

dkb · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-31 09:36:07Z

Works fine for me:

Here is the code with client and request, please ignore request signatures

curl -X GET \
  http://localhost:8080/article/so \
  -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  -d 'api_key=API_Key&event=%5B%7B%22user_id%22%3A%2212345%22%2C%20%22event_type%22%3A%22buy_song%22%7D%5D'

controller: First request will trigger your code:

// This is just to trigger, you can ignore it.

    @RequestMapping(value = "/article/so", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public void addArticle1() throws UnsupportedEncodingException, JsonProcessingException {
        articleServiceImpl.test();
    }

Above request will go to service layer where code is same as of yours.


    public void test() throws JsonProcessingException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
        HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
        headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED);

        MultiValueMap<String, String> params = new LinkedMultiValueMap<>();
        Event e = new Event();
        e.setEvent_type("buy_song");
        e.setUser_id("12345");

        params.add("api_key", "API_Key");
        String encode = URLEncoder.encode(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(Collections.singletonList(e)), "UTF-8");
        params.add("event", encode);

        HttpEntity<MultiValueMap<String, String>> request = new HttpEntity<>(params, headers);
        ResponseEntity<String> response = restTemplate.postForEntity("http://localhost:8080/article/so", request, String.class);
        System.out.println(response);//<200,[Content-Length:"0", Date:"Fri, 31 May 2019 09:26:24 GMT"]>
    }

Then the controller again, just to check whether controller accepts String object or Event object from the caller. Here Event is passed as URLEncodedString, which I am getting here as output.

    @RequestMapping(value = "/article/so", method = RequestMethod.POST, consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED_VALUE)
    public void addArticle2(@RequestParam String api_key,@RequestParam String event) {
        System.out.println(api_key); // API_Key
        System.out.println(event); // %5B%7B%22user_id%22%3A%2212345%22%2C%22event_type%22%3A%22buy_song%22%7D%5D
    }

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