Receiving HTTP 405 When trying to use Jersey Client to Process POST to Web Service

[James Dekker]

I am using JDK 1.6, Jersey, & Jersey Client to post a JSON String to a web service running on my local tomcat container.

import com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientResponse;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource;

public class PostClient {
	
	private static final String DIFF_SERVICE_BASE_URI = "http://localhost:8080/myservice/rest/ipad";

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
			String jsonString = "{\"qty\":100,\"name\":\"iPad 4\"}";
			
			// Post JSON to web service running on local tomcat.
			Client jerseyClient = Client.create();
			WebResource webResource = jerseyClient.resource(DIFF_SERVICE_BASE_URI);

			ClientResponse response = webResource.type("application/json").post(ClientResponse.class, jsonString);

			if (response.getStatus() != 201) {
				throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code : " + response.getStatus());
			}
			System.out.println("\nPosted successfully to My Service\n");

			System.out.println("\nOutput from My Service .... \n");
			String output = response.getEntity(String.class);
			
			// Should be same string
			System.out.println(output);
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
}

JSON String: {"qty":100,"name":"iPad 4"}
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed : HTTP error code : 405
	at com.myapp.client.PostClient.main(PostClient.java:26)

What can I be doing wrong? Thank you for taking the time to read this...

-James

[Emanuel Kadziela]

First, it seems that the code you listed does not match the output you listed. I don't see anywhere in the code where you print out the JSON String, yet this appears in the output "JSON String: {"qty":100,"name":"iPad 4"} ".

Secondly, 405 errors have to do with method mismatches (like trying to send a POST request to a server that only allows GET requests). Are you sure your server is set up to accept and process POST requests?