How do I read the response header from RestTemplate?

Question

I am posting information to a web service using RestTemplate.postForObject. Besides the result string I need the information in the response header. Is there any way to ge

Answer 1

Best thing to do whould be to use the execute method and pass in a ResponseExtractor which will have access to the headers.

private static class StringFromHeadersExtractor implements ResponseExtractor {

    public String extractData(ClientHttpResponse response) throws   
    {
        return doSomthingWithHeader(response.getHeaders());
    }
}

Another option (less clean) is to extend RestTemplate and override the call to doExecute and add any special header handling logic there.