JIRA REST API , java request/response

that's my first question on stackoverflow ; i need to make a post request (using an inputBean/pojo class for needed paramaters) and get a response (using an outputBean/pojo class to map the json response) using the jira rest api , currently i'm using jersey to do the unmarshallowing thing with json and for annotations, here's the code :

public Resource create(CreateIssueRequest createIssueRequest) {

    //creating the issue builder with project key and issuetype
              IssueInputBuilder issueBuilder = new IssueInputBuilder(
                      createIssueRequest.getFields().getProject().getKey()
                     ,createIssueRequest.getFields().getIssueType().getCodeName());

    //setting issue fields using the inputBean
              issueBuilder.setSummary(createIssueRequest.getFields().getSummary());
              issueBuilder.setDescription(createIssueRequest.getFields().getDescription());

    //requesting the issue creation method , BasicIssue contains the same fields as my outputbean , this whole thing is the request 
              BasicIssue issue = jiraClient.getClient().getIssueClient().createIssue(issueBuilder.build()).claim();

    //creating the output bean
              CreateIssueResponse createIssueResponse = new CreateIssueResponse(
                      issue.getId(),
                      issue.getKey(),
                      issue.getSelf());

              try {
                jiraClient.getClient().getMetadataClient().getStatus(new URI("localhost:8080/rest/api/2/issue"));
            } catch (URISyntaxException e1) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e1.printStackTrace();
            }
              Resource resource = new Resource();

             try {
                jiraClient.getClient().close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

             resource.setData(createIssueResponse);
             return resource;
}

what i managed to achieve using this code is creating an issue and obtaining the corresponding outputbean , what i would like instead is getting a Response instance like a jersey one , which has more information attached to it like the status of that response + the entity response (using this code the only thing i get is the entity) ; i've looked for something similar in the jira rest api but i found nothing .

i might have been unclear , if enyone is willing to help me , i'll be glad to clarify any doubts

api:https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-apis/jira-rest-apis/jira-rest-api-tutorials/jira-rest-api-example-create-issue

i solved surrounding the "post request" with a try catch (when the request doesnt return 201 it throws that exception witch holds some useful data like

 try{

              issue = jiraClient.getClient().getIssueClient().createIssue(issueBuilder.build()).claim();

              }catch(RestClientException e){

                  ErrorResource error = new ErrorResource();
                  error.setStatus(e.getStatusCode().get());
                  error.setDetail(e.getLocalizedMessage());
                  error.setTitle("An error occurred while creating the issue");
                  resource.setErrors(new ArrayList<ErrorResource>());
                  resource.getErrors().add(error);
                  return resource;

              }