Fetching a file as a String response using Apache CXF - rest

Question

I have a simple REST client using the Apache CXF library. Here is the code snippet:
val wc = WebClient.create(address(host, port) + "/" + resource).`type`("text/plain")
requestParam match {
case Some(reqParams) => reqParams.foreach((param: (String, String)) => {
wc.query(param._1, param._2)
})
case None => wc
}
println("Acturl url is " + wc.getCurrentURI)
wc.get(classOf[String])
}
What I'm trying to fetch is a simple file named test.txt. I want to render this as a plain String and that is what I do at the last line on the code snippet above. But I get the following error:
javax.ws.rs.NotAuthorizedException was thrown.
javax.ws.rs.NotAuthorizedException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.AbstractClient.convertToWebApplicationException(AbstractClient.java:462)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.doInvoke(WebClient.java:860)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.doInvoke(WebClient.java:831)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.invoke(WebClient.java:394)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient.get(WebClient.java:573)
How can I return the call to a GET endpoint as a plain String?

Answer 1

I was a bit stupid. My original code actually worked and returned a String that I wanted!
wc.get(classOf[String])