Can't send StringEntity to RESTlet resource

[james frain]

This is last chance saloon for me, spent days trying to get to the bottom of this
here is the problem. If I include anything other than a "" blank string ( eg entity = new StringRequestEntity("abc", "text/plain", "UTF-8"); )in the entity then the request fails with the error message "Unsupported Media Type"
I have tried multiple different content types but can never seem to get past this
With just a blank string the POST gets to the resource handler.
Looking at the documentation it is the server that is throwing this error back because it does not have any resource that can handle plain text, so how do I set up my resource to do this?

package com;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.RequestEntity;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.StringRequestEntity;

public class TestClientNew
{

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
	{

		// Prepare HTTP post
		PostMethod post = new PostMethod("http://localhost:8888/user/mick");
		StringRequestEntity entity = new StringRequestEntity("", "text/plain", "UTF-8");
		post.setRequestEntity(entity);
		HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
		// Execute request
		try {
			int result = httpclient.executeMethod(post);
			// Display status code
			System.out.println("Response status code: " + result);
			// Display response
			System.out.println("Response body: ");
			System.out.println(post.getResponseBodyAsString());
		}
		finally {
			// Release current connection to the connection pool once you are done
			post.releaseConnection();
		}
	}
}

			

My resource

   @Post
   public String handlePost() {
      Representation entity;
		entity = getRequestEntity();
		entity.getSize();

		return null;
   }