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Jason Shapiro
Jason Shapiro

Reputation: 77

Not getting full HTTP response from HttpClient

I do not seem to be getting the entire json response from httpclient. I am hitting an api I'm running locally like so:

curl -i -X POST http://localhost:8098/<api location> -F "files=@<filename>"

And my response looks like this:

{"data":[<bunch of json>]

But when I try to post the exact same file with httpclients, I get this response:

{"data":[]}

What am I doing wrong? Here is my java code. Thank you!

public CloseableHttpResponse submit (File file) throws IOException {
    CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.createDefault();
    HttpPost post = new HttpPost(API_LOCATION + API_BASE);
    MultipartEntityBuilder builder = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();
    builder.addBinaryBody("ISO xml file", file, ContentType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM, file.getName());
    HttpEntity multipartEntity = builder.build();
    post.setEntity(multipartEntity);

    CloseableHttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
    System.out.println("response: " + IOUtils.toString(response.getEntity().getContent(),"UTF-8"));
    client.close();
    return response;
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 455

Answers (1)

Jason Shapiro
Jason Shapiro

Reputation: 77

As Andreas and Danilo mentioned in the comments:

In curl you name the field files, but in Java you name it ISO xml file. Since server only looks for files, it see nothing, and responds with nothing. - Andreas

What about the parameter's name? On curl you used 'files' and on http client you used 'ISO xml file'. Try changing it to 'file'. - Danilo

I needed to change "ISO xml file" to "files" and it worked.

Upvotes: 1

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