Read response body in JAX-RS client from a post request

Having some sort of proxy between a mobile app and a web-service, we are puzzled by the response when issuing a post request. We receive response with status 200: OK. But we can not find/extract the JSON response body.

    Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
    WebTarget webTarget = client.target(WEBSERVICE_BASE_LOCATION + "mobileDevices?operatorCode=KPNSCP");
    String jsonString = "{\"osVersion\":\"4.1\",\"apiLevel\":16,\"devicePlatform\":\"ANDROID\"}";
    Builder builder = webTarget.request();
    Response response = builder.post(Entity.json(jsonString));

We are using JAX-RS. Can someone please provide some hints to extract the JSON body (String) from the server response?

Solution 1:

Try this:

String output = response.getEntity(String.class);

EDIT

Thanks to @Martin Spamer to mention that it will work for Jersey 1.x jars only. For Jersey 2.x use

String output = response.readEntity(String.class);

Solution 2:

I just found a solution for jaxrs-ri-2.16 - simply use

String output = response.readEntity(String.class)

this delivers the content as expected.

Solution 3:

For my use case, none of the previous answers worked because I was writing a server-side unit test which was failing due the following error message as described in the Unable to Mock Glassfish Jersey Client Response Object question:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Method not supported on an outbound message.
at org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.OutboundJaxrsResponse.readEntity(OutboundJaxrsResponse.java:145)
at ...

This exception occurred on the following line of code:

String actJsonBody = actResponse.readEntity(String.class);

The fix was to turn the problem line of code into:

String actJsonBody = (String) actResponse.getEntity();