I am making rest call to IBM Cloud BPM. Some times calls are working fine.But sometimes it is giving following error. Can any one help me on how to solve this issue. Any help is greatly appreciated.
You need to set your content-type to application/json. But -d (or –data) sends the Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded, which is not accepted on Spring’s side. Looking at the curl man page, I think you can use -H (or –header): Full example: (-H is short for –header, -d for –data) Note that -request POST is optional if you … Read more
NOTE: When I first spent time reading about REST, idempotence was a confusing concept to try to get right. I still didn’t get it quite right in my original answer, as further comments (and Jason Hoetger’s answer) have shown. For a while, I have resisted updating this answer extensively, to avoid effectively plagiarizing Jason, but … Read more
You need to set your content-type to application/json. But -d (or –data) sends the Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded, which is not accepted on Spring’s side. Looking at the curl man page, I think you can use -H (or –header): Full example: (-H is short for –header, -d for –data) Note that -request POST is optional if you use -d, as the -d flag implies a POST request. On Windows, things are slightly different. See the comment thread.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of misinformation and misconceptions around REST. Not only your question and the answer by @cmd reflect those, but most of the questions and answers related to the subject on Stack Overflow. SOAP and REST can’t be compared directly, since the first is a protocol (or at least tries to be) … Read more
Overall: Both PUT and POST can be used for creating. You have to ask, “what are you performing the action upon?”, to distinguish what you should be using. Let’s assume you’re designing an API for asking questions. If you want to use POST, then you would do that to a list of questions. If you … Read more
Overall: Both PUT and POST can be used for creating. You have to ask, “what are you performing the action upon?”, to distinguish what you should be using. Let’s assume you’re designing an API for asking questions. If you want to use POST, then you would do that to a list of questions. If you … Read more