Restlet POST using JSON

Question

Hi,

How do I implement Restlet function which accepts JSON post? And how do I test this using curl?

Thanks

Answer 1

Here is a good and complete example of a Restlet that accepts JSON via POST:

• Creating a simple web service with Restlet

And a basic guide on how to test RESTful web services with cURL:

• REST-esting with cURL

Answer 2

With Restlet 2, you can either:

• test the entity media-type compatibility in @Post acceptRepresentation(Representation entity):

  @Post
  public Representation acceptRepresentation(Representation entity)
          throws ResourceException {
      if (entity.getMediaType().isCompatible(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)) {
         // ...
      }
      // ...
  }
  

• or use @Post with one or two parameters:

  @Post("json") Representation acceptAndReturnJson(Representation entity) {
      // ...
  }
  

See these links:

• http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2585586
• http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.0/jse/api/org/restlet/resource/Post.html

(With Restlet 1, you would need to test the type of the entity.)