Jersey client exception: A message body writer was not found

Question

I am using Jersey client to hit a PHP web service for image uploading functionality. I am getting the following exception:

Caused by: com.sun.jersey.api.clie         


        

Answer 1

Here's my work around:

        WebResource webResource =
                jerseyClient.resource("www.api.com");
        WebResource.Builder requestBuilder = webResource.getRequestBuilder();
        requestBuilder.header("content-type", "application/json");
        ClientResponse response = requestBuilder
                .post(ClientResponse.class, mObjectMapper.writeValueAsString(new RequestObject(longUrl)));
        String text = response.getEntity(String.class);
        ResponseObject outcome = mObjectMapper.readValue(text, ResponseObject.class);

I have used Jackson ObjectMapper to serialize the request payload and likewise deserialized the outcome into a ResponseObject instance using ObjectMapper.