Hi, Jersey Folk:
We're trying to upgrade from 1.x to 2.x
On 1.x, we make a few POST requests that provides no body or Content-Type
header but accept a response.
The rationale for the empty body is the standard one in REST: the request
creates a new entity (in particular, a transaction) where all input for the
entity
creation is available on the server and no input is needed from the client.
I note that the following workaround was suggested when this question
came up recently:
Client.newClient().target(...).request().post(Entity.entity(null,
"foo/bar"));
http://markmail.org/message/4bmg5slbrfzgtusu
However, this workaround fails in our environment. It appears that, because
of the Content-Type header, the server waits for the client to send the body
until the request times out.
A null MediaType throws an IllegalArgumentException from Jersey.
Is there an alternative workaround that invokes POST with neither a body
or Content-Type header (so we can port these 1.x requests to 2.x)?
Thanks in advance,
Erik Hennum