Question

I am trying to make REST call to Fusion Table API . I am using spring Template for REST

When i am defining my URL as :

String URI = "https://www.googleapis.com/upload/fusiontables/v1/tables/tableid/import";

Exception :

 Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.web.client.HttpClientErrorException: 401 Unauthorized

which is fine and means that its hitting google server .

But when i use :

URL  :String URI = "https://www.googleapis.com/upload/fusiontables/v1/tables/tableid/import"+"&Authorization:""&Content-Type: application/octet-stream";

its throwing execption :

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.web.client.HttpClientErrorException: 404 Not Found

Which I am not able to comprehend .

Answer 1

You are appending the request headers to your URL string, which is incorrect. These two headers:

• Authorization: “”
• Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Should not be added to the request URL. Instead, if your using Apache HttpComponents:

final HttpPost post = new HttpPost();
post.addHeader("Authorization", "");
post.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");

Or alternatively, with HttpUrlConnection:

conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "");
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");

Or alternatively, with Spring RestTemplate:

HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers.add("Authorization", "");
headers.add("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");
HttpEntity<String> entity = new HttpEntity<String>(helloWorld, headers);

There’s a ton of information on Spring specific options on their documentation pages for RestTemplate and HttpEntity.