jersey http client custom request method
httpurlconnection, java, jersey, rest
Solution
With Jersey 2.x `Client`, we would set the property
- `HttpUrlConnectorProvider.SET_METHOD_WORKAROUND`
to `true`
Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
client.property(HttpUrlConnectorProvider.SET_METHOD_WORKAROUND, true);
String response = client.target(url).request().method("PATCH", entity, String.class);
Problem
With the following code, using `jersey`: ``` <groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId> <artifactId>jersey-apache-client4</artifactId> <version>1.13-b01</version> ``` I have issues using custom request methods, like FOOBAR, PATCH, SEARCH, etc. Those which do not exist in `httpUrlConnection`. ``` DefaultClientConfig config = new DefaultClientConfig(); config.getProperties().put(URLConnectionClientHandler.PROPERTY_HTTP_URL_CONNECTION_SET_METHOD_WORKAROUND, true); Client c = Client.create(config); Form f = new Form(); f.add("id", "foobar"); WebResource r = c.resource("http://127.0.0.1/foo"); String methodName = "foobar"; String response = r.type(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED_TYPE).accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE).header("USER-AGENT", "my-java-sdk /1.1").method(methodName.toUpperCase(), String.class, f); ``` The result is the following exception: ``` com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandlerException: java.net.ProtocolException: Invalid HTTP method: FOOBAR ``` I have tried various ways to try and resolve this, without success. - http://java.net/jira/browse/JERSEY-639 has been implemented above in the `config.getProperties()` line. Still receiving the error - when i switch to the apache http client, i receive 411 errors from the server receiving the requests for all non-GET and non-PUT requests. Long story short, I want to implement similar functionality as is available in via Java: - Consuming Custom Request Methods with Android - Consuming Custom Request Methods with iOS5 Thank you in advance for your feedback