Question

I am sending a POST request to a Server from my Android Application. The Server is developed using Spring Framework. The request is received by the server but the parameter that I was sending is null/empty (shown in the log).

The code used to send POST request is:

DefaultHttpClient hc=new DefaultHttpClient();  
ResponseHandler <String> res=new BasicResponseHandler();  

String postMessage = "json String";

HttpPost postMethod=new HttpPost("http://ip:port/event/eventlogs/logs");  
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(1);    
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("json", postMessage));

postMethod.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));    
hc.execute(postMethod,res); 

I have also tried to set HttpParams as follows but it has also failed:

HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
params.setParameter("json", postMessage);
postMethod.setParams(params);

The code on Server side that received this request is:

@RequestMapping(value = "/eventlogs/logs", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String logs(@ModelAttribute("json") String json) {

    logger.debug("Received POST request:" + json);

    return null;
}

The Logger message that I am logging shows:

Received POST request:

Any ideas what I am missing here ?

Answer 1

I have used the RequestParam Annotation and it works for me. Now the code on server is as follows:

@RequestMapping(value = "/eventlogs/logs", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String logs(@RequestParam("json") String json) {
logger.debug("Received POST request:" + json);

    return null;
}