Using the Jersey client to do a POST operation

Question

In a Java method, I\'d like to use a Jersey client object to do a POST operation on a RESTful web service (also written using Jersey) but am not sure how to use the client t

Answer 1

Starting from Jersey 2.x, the MultivaluedMapImpl class is replaced by MultivaluedHashMap. You can use it to add form data and send it to the server:

    WebTarget webTarget = client.target("http://www.example.com/some/resource");
    MultivaluedMap formData = new MultivaluedHashMap();
    formData.add("key1", "value1");
    formData.add("key2", "value2");
    Response response = webTarget.request().post(Entity.form(formData));

Note that the form entity is sent in the format of "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".