CXF RestFul Service - Get Post Body Parameters

Question

I have developed a webservice following the below link, however I am unable to get the request parameters from the POST request body.

http://info.appdirect.com/blog/how-to-easily-build-rest-web-services-with-java-spring-and-apache-cxf

I use the Soap UI to invoke the service, with "Post QueryString in Message Body" option checked. So far, I have tried below options, but none seem to work:

Tried MultiValued Map, but the map is always empty.

@POST
@Path("/getpostfile/{fileName}")
@Produces("application/pdf")
@Consumes("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
public Response getPostFile(MultivaluedMap form){...}

Tried @FormParam() & @QueryParam as well, but still the params are null in webservice method.
Tried creating a POJO bean with @XmlRootElement annotation, however this time I get an exception saying "SEVERE: No message body reader has been found for class com.wcc.LoginInfo, ContentType: application/x-www-form-urlencoded". LoginInfo is my bean class with two parameters:
```
@XmlRootElement
public class LoginInfo {
    String username;
    String password;
    ....
```

Below is the service method:

    @POST
    @Path("/getpostfile/{fileName}")
    @Produces("application/pdf")
    @Consumes("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
    public Response getPostFile(LoginInfo logininfo){...}

Below is my cxf-beans.xml file:

    <bean .....>
    <jaxrs:server id="wccservice" address="/">
       <jaxrs:serviceBeans>
           <ref bean="wccdocumentservice" />
       </jaxrs:serviceBeans>
       <jaxrs:providers>
            <ref bean="formUrlEncodeProvider" />
       </jaxrs:providers>
 </jaxrs:server>


 <bean id="wccdocumentservice" class="com.wcc.WCCDocumentServiceImpl" />
 <bean id="formUrlEncodeProvider" class="org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.provider.FormEncodingProvider" />
 <bean id="jsonProvider" class="org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.provider.json.JSONProvider">
    <property name="marshallAsJaxbElement" value="true" />
 </bean>

Any ideas on how to retrieve the POST parameters in request body, in the Webservice method?

I have the same question too.. did you find something? – fnkbz Mar 09 '15 at 13:06 — fnkbz, Mar 09 '15 at 13:06

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

Guess I was dwelling too much into CXF, missed the simple approach. We can get the Post request parameters in CXF service similar to the way we get the parameters in a Servlet.

For Query Parameters in POST request:

    @POST
    @Path("/getpostfile/{fileName}")
    @Produces("application/pdf")
    @Consumes("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
    public Response getPostFile(@PathParam("fileName") String fileName, @Context HttpServletRequest request) 
    {
     System.out.println("id is : " + request.getParameter("id")+", password is : " + request.getParameter("password"));

and for Parameters in POST message body, you may use getBody() method from below link:

Getting request payload from POST request in Java servlet

Hope that helps someone!

CXF RestFul Service - Get Post Body Parameters

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