CXF Rest Client to call POST method

I have a sample REST service with POST method running in my local system. This method is used to add user details.

The URL is 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/camel-rest-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/user/add'

Request is

{ "id" : "12346" , "name":"kswaughs" }

Response is

{
   "id": "12346",
   "status": "Success"
}

Create a POJO class to send the request

Request Object - UserRequest

package com.example.cxfrs.beans;

public class UserRequest {

 private String id;

 private String name;

 public String getId() {
  return id;
 }

 public void setId(String id) {
  this.id = id;
 }

 public String getName() {
  return name;
 }

 public void setName(String name) {
  this.name = name;
 }
}

Create a POJO class to parse the JSON response into java object

Response Object - UserResponse

package com.example.cxfrs.beans;

public class UserResponse {

 private String status;

 private String id;

 public String getStatus() {
  return status;
 }

 public void setStatus(String status) {
  this.status = status;
 }

 public String getId() {
  return id;
 }

 public void setId(String id) {
  this.id = id;
 }

 @Override
 public String toString() {
  StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
  builder.append("UserResponse [status=");
  builder.append(status);
  builder.append(", id=");
  builder.append(id);
  builder.append("]");
  return builder.toString();
 }
}

A simple stand-alone client code using WebClient and JacksonJsonProvider.

Sample Client code to call POST Method

package com.example.cxfrs;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

import com.example.cxfrs.beans.UserRequest;
import com.example.cxfrs.beans.UserResponse;
import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient;
import org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJsonProvider;

public class CXFRestPostClient {

 public static void main(String[] args) {

  List<Object> providers = new ArrayList<Object>();
  providers.add(new JacksonJsonProvider());
  
  UserRequest req = new UserRequest();
  req.setId("1234578");
  req.setName("kswaughs");

  WebClient client = WebClient
    .create("http://127.0.0.1:8080/camel-rest-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/user/add", providers);
  
  client = client.accept("application/json").type("application/json");
  
  Response r = client.post(req);
  UserResponse resp = r.readEntity(UserResponse.class);
  System.out.println(resp);
 }
}

Output is

UserResponse [status=Success, id=1234578]

Use Below maven dependency in your pom.xml to use CXF Client

<!-- To use WebClient API -->
<dependency>
 <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
 <artifactId>cxf-rt-rs-client</artifactId>
 <version>3.1.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- To parse JSON String to Java objects --> 
<dependency>
 <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
 <artifactId>jackson-jaxrs</artifactId>
 <version>1.9.0</version>
</dependency> 

If you dont provide JacksonJsonProvider to WebClient, You will get below JSON parsing error.

 
org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.utils.JAXRSUtils logMessageHandlerProblem
SEVERE: No message body writer has been found for class org.example.cxfrs.beans.UserRequest, ContentType: application/json
Nov 25, 2015 3:00:48 PM org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain doDefaultLogging
WARNING: Interceptor for {http://127.0.0.1:8080/camel-rest-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/user/add}WebClient has thrown exception, unwinding now
org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: No message body writer has been found for class org.example.cxfrs.beans.UserRequest, ContentType: application/json
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient$BodyWriter.doWriteBody(WebClient.java:1227)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.AbstractClient$AbstractBodyWriter.handleMessage(AbstractClient.java:1052)
 at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:308)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.AbstractClient.doRunInterceptorChain(AbstractClient.java:636)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.doChainedInvocation(WebClient.java:1091)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.doInvoke(WebClient.java:894)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.doInvoke(WebClient.java:865)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.invoke(WebClient.java:331)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.post(WebClient.java:340)
 at org.example.cxfrs.CXFRestPostClient.main(CXFRestPostClient.java:30)
Caused by: javax.ws.rs.ProcessingException: No message body writer has been found for class org.example.cxfrs.beans.UserRequest, ContentType: application/json
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.AbstractClient.reportMessageHandlerProblem(AbstractClient.java:754)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.AbstractClient.writeBody(AbstractClient.java:485)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient$BodyWriter.doWriteBody(WebClient.java:1222)
 ... 9 more

Exception in thread "main" javax.ws.rs.ProcessingException: org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: No message body writer has been found for class org.example.cxfrs.beans.UserRequest, ContentType: application/json
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.doResponse(WebClient.java:1147)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.doChainedInvocation(WebClient.java:1092)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.doInvoke(WebClient.java:894)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.doInvoke(WebClient.java:865)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.invoke(WebClient.java:331)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.post(WebClient.java:340)
 at org.example.cxfrs.CXFRestPostClient.main(CXFRestPostClient.java:30)
Caused by: org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: No message body writer has been found for class org.example.cxfrs.beans.UserRequest, ContentType: application/json
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient$BodyWriter.doWriteBody(WebClient.java:1227)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.AbstractClient$AbstractBodyWriter.handleMessage(AbstractClient.java:1052)
 at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:308)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.AbstractClient.doRunInterceptorChain(AbstractClient.java:636)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.doChainedInvocation(WebClient.java:1091)
 ... 5 more
Caused by: javax.ws.rs.ProcessingException: No message body writer has been found for class org.example.cxfrs.beans.UserRequest, ContentType: application/json
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.AbstractClient.reportMessageHandlerProblem(AbstractClient.java:754)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.AbstractClient.writeBody(AbstractClient.java:485)
 at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient$BodyWriter.doWriteBody(WebClient.java:1222)
 ... 9 more

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