I have to make a REST
call that includes custom headers and query parameters. I set my HttpEntity
with just the headers (no body), and I use the RestTemplate.exchange()
method as follows:
HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers.set("Accept", "application/json");
Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
params.put("msisdn", msisdn);
params.put("email", email);
params.put("clientVersion", clientVersion);
params.put("clientType", clientType);
params.put("issuerName", issuerName);
params.put("applicationName", applicationName);
HttpEntity entity = new HttpEntity(headers);
HttpEntity<String> response = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.GET, entity, String.class, params);
This fails at the client end with the dispatcher servlet
being unable to resolve the request to a handler. Having debugged it, it looks like the request parameters are not being sent.
When I do a an exchange with a POST
using a request body and no query parameters it works just fine.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Best Answer
To easily manipulate URLs / path / params / etc., you can use Spring's UriComponentsBuilder class to create a URL template with placehoders for the parameters, then provide the value for those parameters in the
RestOperations.exchange(...)
call. It's cleaner than manually concatenating strings and it takes care of the URL encoding for you: