How to POST raw whole JSON in the body of a Retrofit request?

Question

This question may have been asked before but no it was not definitively answered. How exactly does one post raw whole JSON inside the body of a Retrofit request?

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Answer 1

This is what works me for the current version of retrofit 2.6.2,

First of all, we need to add a Scalars Converter to the list of our Gradle dependencies, which would take care of converting java.lang.String objects to text/plain request bodies,

implementation'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-scalars:2.6.2'

Then, we need to pass a converter factory to our Retrofit builder. It will later tell Retrofit how to convert the @Body parameter passed to the service.

private val retrofitBuilder: Retrofit.Builder by lazy {
    Retrofit.Builder()
        .baseUrl(BASE_URL)
        .addConverterFactory(ScalarsConverterFactory.create())
        .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
}

Note: In my retrofit builder i have two converters Gson and Scalars you can use both of them but to send Json body we need to focus Scalars so if you don't need Gson remove it

Then Retrofit service with a String body parameter.

@Headers("Content-Type: application/json")
@POST("users")
fun saveUser(@Body   user: String): Response

Then create the JSON body

val user = JsonObject()
 user.addProperty("id", 001)
 user.addProperty("name", "Name")

Call your service

RetrofitService.myApi.saveUser(user.toString())