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