set 'form-data' to jersey client post request

java, jersey, rest, web-services

Solution

After searching all over the internet, here is what worked for me

Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
WebTarget target = client.target(url);
Builder basicRequest = target.request();  
      
Form form = new Form();
form.param("filename", "file.csv");
form.param("version", "1.0");
Response response=basicRequest.post(Entity.form(form), Response.class);

Problem

I am writing a rest client which consumes a POST restful sevice of server. Now the service expects 2 parameters as part of request in 'form-data'. If you have across postman rest client, there we have an option to set the form-data, and give key-value pair parameters. How can we send similar data in Javax rs rest client. Here is the code which I have. ``` import javax.ws.rs.client.Invocation.Builder; import javax.ws.rs.client.Client; import javax.ws.rs.client.WebTarget; ... Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient(); WebTarget target = client.target(url); Builder basicRequest = target.request(); Response response=basicRequest.post(); ``` Now how to send 2 parameters namely 'fileName', 'fileVersion' with their values as part of form-data?

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