POST Attributes with Restlet 2

April 28th, 2011 by nils

Since I keep forgetting how to do this, here is a code snippet to POST parameters to some URL using Restlet 2:

Client restletClient = new Client(new Context(), Protocol.HTTP);
Reference resourceRef = new Reference("THE URL...");
resourceRef.addQueryParameter("key", "value");
Request request = new Request(Method.POST, resourceRef);

Response response = restletClient.handle(request);
String responseAsText = response.getEntityAsText();

Oh, and you’ll want to add the following dependencies to your maven pom.xml (if you’re using maven…):

...
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.restlet.jee</groupId>
  <artifactId>org.restlet</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.restlet.jee</groupId>
  <artifactId>org.restlet.ext.json</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.restlet.jee</groupId>
  <artifactId>org.restlet.ext.httpclient</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.restlet.jee</groupId>
  <artifactId>org.restlet.ext.xstream</artifactId>
  <version>2.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.restlet.jee</groupId>
  <artifactId>org.restlet.ext.xml</artifactId>
</dependency>
...

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2 Comments

  1. God thank you. I spent about a day trying everything I could think to try and figure out how to send a post with parameters. It’s not very well documented on the restlet site, but what I was trying to do is working now.

    Comment by Devin — May 25, 2011 @ 8:14 pm

  2. Hi,
    in my case (restlet jee 2.1m4) my serverResource didn’t get any representation sent by POST until I sent it in the following way (form.getWebRepresentation()) from my client:

    Form form = new Form();
    etc.
    Request request = new Request(method, reference, form.getWebRepresentation());
    etc.

    Only in this way my
    @Post
    public Representation acceptItem(Representation entity) {..}
    or
    @Post
    public Representation acceptItem(Form entity) {..}

    actually receive a not-null argument.

    Comment by myr — June 1, 2011 @ 11:38 am

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