How to retrieve List <String> from HttpResponse object in Java

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I am new to this kind of coding where in I have to send a collection of String i.e., List from a Spring controller of different web app. So my questions are

How should I return the Response which consists of List from a controller? Does the below code works fine? Below is my controller code where I will be returning List<String>.

@RequestMapping(value = "getMyBookingsXmlList", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public @ResponseBody List<String> getMyBookingsXmlList() {
    return mbXmlImpl.getMyBookingsDetailsXmlList();
}

In the client side how should I have to retrieve the List<String> which was sent from the above controller method ? Below is the code which I am trying to do but I have no clue as of how to do.

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("URL");
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
InputStream is = httpResponse.getEntity().getContent();
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
byte [] b = new byte [1024];
for (int n ; (n = is.read(b)) != -1 ;)
    buffer.append(new String(b, 0, n));

After this I don't have a clue what to do....

from where do you send your request? And where do you want the response? — Florescent Ticker
– Florescent Ticker, Commented Apr 18, 2014 at 9:34
The request will be from different Java application on different web app and the response will be getting from the spring controller of another different web app. — Hirein Nag
– Hirein Nag, Commented Apr 18, 2014 at 10:30

Mahendran Kandiar · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-07 00:10:37Z

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The easiest solution to consume your Rest service with a java client is to use Spring RestTemplate. I would suggest you wrap your List<String> in another class and return that from your controller:

public class BookingList  {
    private List<String> booking;
    // getters and setters
}

With this your client code will be very simple:

BookingList bookingList = restTemplate.getForObject("http://yoururl", BookingList.class, Collections.emptyMap() ) ;

If you want to continue to keep List<String> as return type, then the client code will look like this:

    ResponseEntity<List<String>> bookingListEntity = restTemplate.exchange("http://yoururl", HttpMethod.GET, null, new ParameterizedTypeReference<List<String>>() {}, Collections.emptyMap() ) ;
    if (bookingListEntity.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.OK) {
        List<String> bookingList = bookingListEntity.getBody();
    }

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Santhosh · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-18 09:36:45Z

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If you are using the jstl you can iterate it through the for-each as

 <c:forEach items="${Name_of_RequestAttribute}" var="ite">
  <option value="${ite.Name_of_RequestAttribute}">${ite.Name_of_RequestAttribute}</option>
 </c:forEach>

Hope this helps!!

answered Apr 18, 2014 at 9:36

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Hirein Nag Over a year ago

Hi San krish ! But I have to get the response from a java code which I have already posted. I am getting

Hirein Nag Over a year ago

Actually I need to retrieve the List<String> from response in my java code.

Santhosh Over a year ago

You are forwarding the list from controller right? . And where you are forwarding the result to?

Tarun Gupta Over a year ago

@user2138790 So the assumption here is that the response from your controller is processed by a JSP View, is that correct?

Santhosh Over a year ago

Exactly what @TarunGupta says

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:45:22Z

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I think a better way would be to have a RESTFul webservice in your application that provides the BookingXml.

In case you are planning to expose your Existing Controller code as a Rest Webservice, you could use RestTemplate as explained in this example to make the web service calls.

Other resources you can refer to : http://java.dzone.com/articles/how-use-spring-resttemplate-0 http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.0.0.M3/reference/html/ch18s03.html

To be specific, in your case you could use this code example :

Controller :

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/help")
public class HelpController {

    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HelpController.class);

    @RequestMapping("/method")
    public @ResponseBody String[] greeting() {
        return new String[] { "Hello", "world" };
    }
}

Client Code :

public class Client {

    public static void main(final String[] args) {
        final RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
        try {

            final String[] data = restTemplate.getForObject("http://localhost:8080/appname/help/method",
                    String[].class);
            System.out.println(Arrays.toString(data));
        }
        catch (final Exception e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

}

In case authentication is needed there are 2 ways to pass user credentials when using RestTemplate :

Create your RestTemplate object using this example :

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
UsernamePasswordCredentials credentials = new UsernamePasswordCredentials("your_user","your_password");
client.getState().setCredentials(new AuthScope("thehost", 9090, AuthScope.ANY_REALM), credentials);
CommonsClientHttpRequestFactory commons = new CommonsClientHttpRequestFactory(client);
RestTemplate template = new RestTemplate(commons);

Or same can be done using Spring configuraitons as mentioned in this answer : https://stackoverflow.com/a/9067922/1898397

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answered Apr 18, 2014 at 10:57

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Hirein Nag Over a year ago

"In your java client you can set the content headers 'application/json". Can you explain this in terms of coding ? I know this is annoying but this is how it is.

Tarun Gupta Over a year ago

The content headers are set while sending the request from a plain java client to a web service. Here is an Example. Here is an example of how to consume (writing the client side code for) a web-service using Spring framework hope it helps.

Tarun Gupta Over a year ago

Hi Hirein, in the example that I posted returning List<Sting> should also work fine.

Hirein Nag Over a year ago

I followed the above code. But the problem here is I need to send username, password along with the request since we have interceptors in the server code. How can I do that.

NoraT · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-07 12:18:51Z

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How about this solution?

...
ResponseEntity<MyObject[]> response = 
restTemplate.getForEntity(uribuilder.build().encode().toUri(), 
MyObject[].class);
return Arrays.asList(response.getBody());

Where MyObject can be anything, even String.

answered Feb 7, 2018 at 12:18

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