I am trying to get the whole body from the HttpServletRequest object.
The code I am following looks like this:
if ( request.getMethod().equals("POST") )
{
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
BufferedReader bufferedReader = null;
String content = "";
try {
//InputStream inputStream = request.getInputStream();
//inputStream.available();
//if (inputStream != null) {
bufferedReader = request.getReader() ; //new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
char[] charBuffer = new char[128];
int bytesRead;
while ( (bytesRead = bufferedReader.read(charBuffer)) != -1 ) {
sb.append(charBuffer, 0, bytesRead);
}
//} else {
// sb.append("");
//}
} catch (IOException ex) {
throw ex;
} finally {
if (bufferedReader != null) {
try {
bufferedReader.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
throw ex;
}
}
}
test = sb.toString();
}
and I am testing the functionality with curl and wget as follows:
curl --header "MD5: abcd" -F "[email protected] http://localhost:8080/abcd.html"
wget --header="MD5: abcd" --post-data='{"imei":"351553012623446","hni":"310150","wdp":false}' http://localhost:8080/abcd.html"
But the while ( (bytesRead = bufferedReader.read(charBuffer)) != -1 )
does not return anything, and so I get nothing appended on StringBuffer.
If all you want is the POST request body, you could use a method like this:
static String extractPostRequestBody(HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException {
if ("POST".equalsIgnoreCase(request.getMethod())) {
Scanner s = new Scanner(request.getInputStream(), "UTF-8").useDelimiter("\\A");
return s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
}
return "";
}
Credit to: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5445161/1389219
Easy way with commons-io.
IOUtils.toString(request.getReader());
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/javadocs/api-2.5/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtils.html
If the request body is empty, then it simply means that it's already been consumed beforehand. For example, by a request.getParameter()
, getParameterValues()
or getParameterMap()
call. Just remove the lines doing those calls from your code.
In Java 8, you can do it in a simpler and clean way :
if ("POST".equalsIgnoreCase(request.getMethod()))
{
test = request.getReader().lines().collect(Collectors.joining(System.lineSeparator()));
}
I resolved that situation in this way. I created a util method that return a object extracted from request body, using the readValue method of ObjectMapper that is capable of receiving a Reader.
public static <T> T getBody(ResourceRequest request, Class<T> class) {
T objectFromBody = null;
try {
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest = PortalUtil.getHttpServletRequest(request);
objectFromBody = objectMapper.readValue(httpServletRequest.getReader(), class);
} catch (IOException ex) {
log.error("Error message", ex);
}
return objectFromBody;
}
Be aware, that your code is quite noisy. I know the thread is old, but a lot of people will read it anyway. You could do the same thing using the guava library with:
if ("POST".equalsIgnoreCase(request.getMethod())) {
test = CharStreams.toString(request.getReader());
}
This works for both GET and POST:
@Context
private HttpServletRequest httpRequest;
private void printRequest(HttpServletRequest httpRequest) {
System.out.println(" \n\n Headers");
Enumeration headerNames = httpRequest.getHeaderNames();
while(headerNames.hasMoreElements()) {
String headerName = (String)headerNames.nextElement();
System.out.println(headerName + " = " + httpRequest.getHeader(headerName));
}
System.out.println("\n\nParameters");
Enumeration params = httpRequest.getParameterNames();
while(params.hasMoreElements()){
String paramName = (String)params.nextElement();
System.out.println(paramName + " = " + httpRequest.getParameter(paramName));
}
System.out.println("\n\n Row data");
System.out.println(extractPostRequestBody(httpRequest));
}
static String extractPostRequestBody(HttpServletRequest request) {
if ("POST".equalsIgnoreCase(request.getMethod())) {
Scanner s = null;
try {
s = new Scanner(request.getInputStream(), "UTF-8").useDelimiter("\\A");
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
}
return "";
}
This will work for all HTTP method.
public class HttpRequestWrapper extends HttpServletRequestWrapper {
private final String body;
public HttpRequestWrapper(HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException {
super(request);
body = IOUtils.toString(request.getReader());
}
@Override
public ServletInputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
final ByteArrayInputStream byteArrayInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(getBody().getBytes());
ServletInputStream servletInputStream = new ServletInputStream() {
public int read() throws IOException {
return byteArrayInputStream.read();
}
@Override
public boolean isFinished() {
return false;
}
@Override
public boolean isReady() {
return false;
}
@Override
public void setReadListener(ReadListener listener) {
}
};
return servletInputStream;
}
public String getBody() {
return this.body;
}
}
Source: Stackoverflow.com