Error 415 Unsupported Media Type: POST not reaching REST if JSON, but it does if XML

Question

I am actually new to REST WS but really I don\'t get this 415 Unsupported Media Type.

I am testing my REST with Poster on Firefox and the GET

Answer 1

Just in case this is helpful to others, here's my anecdote:

I found this thread as a result of a problem I encountered while I was using Postman to send test data to my RESTEasy server, where- after a significant code change- I was getting nothing but 415 Unsupported Media Type errors.

Long story short, I tore everything out, eventually I tried to run the trivial file upload example I knew worked; it didn't. That's when I realized that the problem was with my Postman request. I normally don't send any special headers, but in a previous test I had added a "Content-Type": "application/json" header. OF COURSE, I was trying to upload "multipart/form-data." Removing it solved my issue.

Moral: Check your headers before you blow up your world. ;)