Consume REST service with POST

[handreach]

I have successfully follow the tutorial of building RESTful web service using Netbeans 6. I could not, however, find a good tutorial teaching how to build a simple Java client application to consume the REST service, mainly the POST method. The reason is that I need the Java application to insert new records in database. Anyone has a good link to provide? Thanks in advance.

[handreach]

The following contains more details of my question:

I followed the Netbeans tutorial (http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/websvc/rest.html) to set up a simple RESTful webservice for a list of contact records stored in an Oracle database, and I've succeeded in calling the POST method of the RESTful web service from a web browser by pasting a XML formatted string into the web form. The POST method successfully inserted a new record in the Oracle table. Therefore, the server side seemed to be working fine. But when I tried to write a client code to POST the same XML string into the web service, Tomcat gave me an error of HTTP Status 415, i.e., wrong format.

I generated the client code by doing the "drag and drop" of the above POST web service into the client code's main function using Netbeans 6.5. The IDE generated a few lines of codes in the main function as well as some org.netbeans.saas.* classes in the source package. The added codes in the main function requested an InputStream variable named "content" as the input, i.e.,

[jpred]

hi , I'm trying to consume a Rest WS (GET & POST) from a java appplication, buy i cant find any tutorial ...

can you post your code ?

thanks

[Melongo Annabel]

Hopefully this helps: http://www.netbeans.org/kb/trails/java-ee.html


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Subject: [nbj2ee] Consume REST service with POST

hi , I'm trying to consume a Rest WS (GET & POST) from a java appplication, buy i cant find any tutorial ...



can you post your code ?



thanks

[michael]

Try here:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/Jersey/Main

Michael

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hi , I'm trying to consume a Rest WS (GET & POST) from a java appplication, buy i cant find any tutorial ...



can you post your code ?



thanks

[jpred]

thanks for your answer !
I saw the two links, I find a lots of example publish Rest WS, but nothing about consuming.

I trying to do something simple,

I publish this:
....
....
@GET
@Produces("text/html")
@Path("login/ci={ci}")
public String Login(@PathParam("ci") String ci){
if(ci != null){
doSomething();
}
else{
return "grrrr";
}
}

and now I want to consume from a java app.

thanks for you help!

[pavankumar]

so any luck in finding the example for POST.