Jersey client. MultivaluedMap goes empty - rest

Question

My RESTful client has this method:
public void testGetCateogrywiseData() {
ClientConfig config = new DefaultClientConfig();
Client client = Client.create(config);
client.addFilter(new LoggingFilter(System.out));
WebResource service = client
.resource("http://localhost:8080/MyApp/rest/publicdata");
#SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
MultivaluedMap queryParams = new MultivaluedMapImpl();
queryParams.add("latitude", "18.522387");
queryParams.add("longitude", "73.878437");
queryParams.add("categoryID", "2");
service.queryParams(queryParams);
ClientResponse response = service.get(ClientResponse.class);
System.out.println(response.getStatus());
System.out.println("Form response " + response.getEntity(String.class));
}
On the server side the method looks like this:
#Path("publicdata")
#GET
#Produces(MediaType.TEXT_HTML)
#Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED)
public String getPublicData() throws JSONException {
MultivaluedMap<String, String> valueMap = uriInfo.getQueryParameters();
Long latString = Long.parseLong(valueMap.getFirst("latitude"));
Long lonString = Long.parseLong(valueMap.getFirst("longitude"));
Long categoryId = Long.parseLong(valueMap.getFirst("categoryID"));
// Do necessary stuff and return json string
return null;
}
My problem is the valueMap at the server end is always empty. It never gets the three parameters that I have sent from the client code. What am I missing?

Answer 1

The problem happens on this line:
service.queryParams(queryParams);
It successfully adds the query params, but it does not change the original service, it returns a new one to you. To make it work you need to change to this:
service = service.queryParams(queryParams);