Thanks Todd, was hoping I didn't have to do that but looks like the only
way.
On 01/27/2014 06:17 PM, Todd Donahue wrote:
> I had the same problem, and wrote my own connector based on the
> existing ApacheConnector. See the following SO article for more details:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18157218/jersey-2-0-content-length-not-set
>
> Make sure you understand that a copy of the entity will be made and
> for large entity bodies this may cause an out of memory problem. My
> requests were known to have small entity bodies, so this method works
> well for me.
>
> --
> Todd
>
> From: Will Ferguson <willferguson00_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:willferguson00_at_gmail.com>>
> Reply-To: "users_at_jersey.java.net <mailto:users_at_jersey.java.net>"
> <users_at_jersey.java.net <mailto:users_at_jersey.java.net>>
> Date: Monday, January 27, 2014 3:11 AM
> To: "users_at_jersey.java.net <mailto:users_at_jersey.java.net>"
> <users_at_jersey.java.net <mailto:users_at_jersey.java.net>>
> Subject: [Jersey] Re: ApacheConnector & setting Content-Length header
> (Jeysey Client 2.4.1)
>
> Hi All,
>
> Am I right to assume then that setting the content-length just isn't
> possible with the ApacheConnector?
>
> If anyone has any idea about this would be great,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Will
>
>
> On 13 January 2014 09:58, Will Ferguson <willferguson00_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:willferguson00_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Could anyone please explain how get Jersey / ApacheConnector to
> set the correct Content-Length header on a client request?
>
> I have a REST service that requires this be set to the size of the
> entity in a PUT request, and I can't work out how to enable it.
>
> It seems calculating it in the MessageBodyWriter has been
> deprecated and it looks like the ApacheConnector is always setting
> it to -1.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Will
>
>
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