Prevent retrofit from encoding my http request body

Question

I\'m trying to pass a string of the format below as the body of a http post request.

param1=PARAM1¶m2=PARAM2¶m3=PARAM3

But

Answer 1

If you have a serialized class (like a HashMap) in the request body and you want to prevent encoding that (like in vezikon's and my problem), you can create a custom Gson with disabled escaping using:

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().disableHtmlEscaping().create();

Pass this converter to your rest adapter:

yourRestAdapter  = new RestAdapter.Builder()
    .setEndpoint(.....)
    .setClient(.....)
    .setConverter(new GsonConverter(gson))
    .build();

This way the "=" characters in the post body stay intact while submitting.