REST Service - #POST call works while #GET doesn't - rest

Question

I am very new in REST services and I am facing a problem during the last two weeks. I am using Jersey. I am trying to use a simple REST client in order to call a POST method, which accepts a JSON object as a parameter and stores it to a database. My approach didn't work, but I decided to go one step behind, so now I am using an even simpler client with a simpler provider, in order to just test my POST and GET methods. The strange thing is that while I am able to call the POST method:
#POST
#Path("/store")
#Consumes(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
#Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
public String storeData(String str) throws SQLException {
String query = "insert into myDB.test (id, name) values ('1', '" + str + "')";
MyDB db = new MyDB();
db.runQuery(query);
return responseCode.toString();
}
This works just fine!
But in the same class, the #GET method is not working and returns a 404 error.
My code is as following:
#GET
#Path("/retrieve")
#Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
public String getResponse() {
return "Hello!";
}
I know that my question might be quite simple to many... but I'm trying to find out what I'm doing wrong so as to go on to my actual implementation...
Thanks a lot in advance.
Marina
here is my client-side code
public class TestClient {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ClientConfig clientConfig = new DefaultClientConfig();
Client client = Client.create(clientConfig);
WebResource webResource = client.resource("http://localhost:8080/server_classes/rest/server/retrieve");
System.out.println(webResource.accept(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN).post(ClientResponse.class, "hello"));
}
}
And here is my web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>server_classes</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Jersey REST Service</servlet-name>
<servlet-class> com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
<param-value>server_classes</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Jersey REST Service</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
My package is named server_classes and the resource's path is #Path("/server")
I tried the vogella tutorial again, from the beginning, just changing the annotation paths and the methods (for not just giving a "Hello Jersey" response). But now, I am not able to run anything. There is only a 404 error!
O also deleted Tomcat's instance, then the whole tomcat installation and re-installed it, the problem still the same. I am working on Ubuntu 12.04 if this helps..
Thanks!

Answer 1

try to change your request from post to get, as your servlet-mapping expects:
webResource.accept(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN).get(ClientResponse.class);