Question

I have to update a Person record having firstName and lastName. User should be able to change it from html form and on submit it should be updated.

Here is my code.

    @PUT
    @Path("/{userId}")
    public Response updatingResource(@FormParam("firstName") String firstName, @FormParam("lastName ") String lastName , @PathParam("userId") String userId){
        System.out.println(firstName);
        System.out.println(lastName);
        return Response.ok().build();
    }

the SOP statements prints null. I have been using Mozilla Firefox’s Poster plugin to send PUT request.

I also tried by annotating it with @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED) but still it is printing null for each values.

How to write and call PUT method that receives these three values. I stumble around lot and found people were asking to use JSON or XML. How can I consume JSON? I would be very greatfull if someone help me to write REST method to update a resource

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If I send PUT request using Firefox’s RESTClient and Google’s rest-client I am able to get the form parameters. Both this tool has something like body section where I placed firstName=Amit&lastName=Patel. Also I added header Content-Type as application/x-www-form-urlencoded.I think Firefox’s Poster is buggy. Can anyone suggest me is there any other way I should validate the code or I can trust on first two REST clients?

Answer 1

In addition to annotating your method with @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED), you must send application/x-www-form-urlencodedas a content-type. Did you do it?

Edited: You can use FormParams only with POST:

SRV.4.1.1 When Parameters Are Available The following are the
conditions that must be met before post form data will be populated to
the parameter set:

1. The request is an HTTP or HTTPS request.
2. The HTTP method is POST.
3. The content type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
4. The servlet has made an initial call of any of the getParameter family of methods on the request object. If the conditions are not met
   and the post form data is not included in the parameter set, the post
   data must still be available to the servlet via the request object’s
   input stream. If the conditions are met, post form data will no longer
   be available for reading directly from the request object’s input
   stream.