JerseyClient post failed with 411 Content-Length required for String Type

Felix Gao

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Feb 17, 2013, 8:18:41 PM2/17/13

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Hi, I am using dropwizard version 0.6.1

Jersey client is created as

final JerseyClientBuilder builder = new JerseyClientBuilder()

.using(configuration.getJerseyClientConfiguration())

.using(environment);

final Client jerseyClient = builder.build();

with the following properties

#http Client property for jersey

httpClient:

# timeout after 3s while connecting, reading, or writing

timeout: 3s

# keep connections open for 10 minutes

timeToLive: 10m

# don't track cookies

cookiesEnabled: false

# gzipEnabled: true # allow for gzipped request and response entities

# If true, the client will encode request entities with gzip

# content encoding. (Requires gzipEnabled to be true).

# gzipEnabledForRequests: true

minThreads: 1

maxThreads: 128 # thread pool for JerseyClient's async requests

this is code snipped that I ran to get the error

@Override

public void run() {

for(Location l : this.locations){ //Location is just a simple pojo

String cr = null;

try {

final String s = mapper.writeValueAsString(l);

cr = this.resource

.type(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE)

.accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE)

.post(String.class, s);

} catch (JsonProcessingException e) {

logger.error("JSON process error for "+l, e);

}

this is what I got back from the server

2 * Client out-bound request

2 > POST http://api.testhost.com/location

2 > Content-Type: application/json

2 > Accept: application/json

� �ێ�0 E �� "_0 ޘD�� L3��68!0 '-��y��^��wP��C�4� rg D� � �� P* B�9�� !� D� S

�k�W7� [ʶ�6

��GF��3V�� 5�j ւ >}�A� �rf��1Dā�A� �!�B��? lP"�

Exception in thread "pool-4-thread-1" com.sun.jersey.api.client.UniformInterfaceException: Client response status: 411

at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.handle(WebResource.java:686)

at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.access$200(WebResource.java:74)

at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource$Builder.post(WebResource.java:568)

at com.katami.concurrent.thread.LocationRestInsertion.run(LocationRestInsertion.java:58)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

2 * Client in-bound response

2 < 411

2 < Server: nginx/0.7.65

2 < Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:14:30 GMT

2 < Content-Type: text/html

2 < Content-Length: 181

2 < Connection: close

2 <

<html>

<head><title>411 Length Required</title></head>

<center><h1>411 Length Required</h1></center>

<hr><center>nginx/0.7.65</center>

</body>

</html>

I am very confused on why jersey is not doing the right thing by adding the Content-Length header and why is the content in binary when I explicitly set it to String?

Felix Gao

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Feb 18, 2013, 3:35:43 PM2/18/13

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After some wiresharking, it appears to be a problem with nginx version that I have which can't really upgrade. Is there a way to force the Jersey client to be in http/1.0 or disable the chunked transfer encoding?

Vladimir Derkach

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Mar 6, 2013, 7:03:35 AM3/6/13

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try to use MultivaluedMap for passing parameters

MultivaluedMap<String, String> params = new MultivaluedMapImpl();

params.add("code", code);

.post(String.class, params);

instead of

.post(String.class, s);

sonaliv...@gmail.com

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Dec 7, 2018, 1:15:59 AM12/7/18

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Hi,

I am also getting the same error that <API URL> returned a response status of 411 Length Required.

I want to read header passed in POSTMAN in code . Please help me how to fetch Header send in POSTMAN using java REST API.

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