How to Pass object to REST Get Method - rest

Question

I am using Jersey Rest implementation. There are one Rest Services Called HelloWorld. See the below code.
Please consider this code as reference not as compiled code.
#Path("helloWorld")
public class HelloWorld{
#Path("test")
#Produces(...)
#Consum(...)
#GET
public Response test(Person person){
System.out.println(person);
}
}
I am using Jersey client to sent the request.
Here My question is apart from POST method is there any way to send the object to GET method directly. Instead of QueryString.
Please let me if there is any way to do so.
Thanks

Answer 1

So the problem shouldn't be with the server. I did a few tests on different servers (not weblogic as I don't use it) and all of them seem to have no problems accepting a body in the GET request. The problem seem to be with the client. To test I used the following code
ClientBuilder.newClient()
.target("http://localhost:8080/api/get-body")
.property(ClientProperties.SUPPRESS_HTTP_COMPLIANCE_VALIDATION, true)
.request()
.method(HttpMethod.GET, Entity.text("Hello World"));
The SUPPRESS_HTTP_COMPLIANCE_VALIDATION allows us to pass a body to the request. If we didn't use this, then we would get an error.
The problem with this code, is that even though we set this override property, the client completely overrides the GET method and automatically makes it a POST method, so I would get back a 405 Method Not Allowed.
The solution I came up with is to just allow the client to set a header, e.g. X-GET-BODY-OVERRIDE, and then use a #PreMatching filter on the server side to check for this header. If the header is present, then just change the method to a GET
#Provider
#PreMatching
public class GetWithBodyFilter implements ContainerRequestFilter {
#Override
public void filter(ContainerRequestContext request) throws IOException {
String getOverride = request.getHeaderString("X-GET-BODY-OVERRIDE");
if (getOverride != null && "true".equalsIgnoreCase(getOverride)) {
request.setMethod(HttpMethod.GET);
}
}
}
Then just register the filter with the server side. On the client, you would simply need to add the header
ClientBuilder.newClient()
.target("http://localhost:8080/api/get-body")
.property(ClientProperties.SUPPRESS_HTTP_COMPLIANCE_VALIDATION, true)
.request()
.header("X-GET-BODY-OVERRIDE", "True")
.method(HttpMethod.GET, Entity.text("Hello World"));
This solution is good because it takes into account more than just the Jersey client, in regards with being able to send a body in the GET request.