Spring WebClient Post method Body - spring

Question

i'm trying to send a POST request with body data as described here: https://scrapyrt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#post.
Here's what i've tried to do but it gives me HTTP code 500
String uri = "http://localhost:3000";
WebClient webClient = WebClient.builder()
.baseUrl(uri)
.build();
LinkedMultiValueMap map = new LinkedMultiValueMap();
String q = "\"url\": \"https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence\",\"meta\":{\"latestDate\" : \"18-05-2020\"}}";
map.add("request", q);
map.add("spider_name", "blog");
BodyInserter<MultiValueMap<String, Object>, ClientHttpRequest> inserter2
= BodyInserters.fromMultipartData(map);
Mono<ItemsList> result = webClient.post()
.uri(uriBuilder -> uriBuilder
.path("/crawl.json")
.build())
.body(inserter2)
.retrieve()
.bodyToMono(ItemsList.class);
ItemsList tempItems = result.block();

Answer 1

Here's what i've tried to do but it gives me HTTP code 500
Most likely because you're sending the wrong data in a mixture of wrong formats with the wrong type:
You're using multipart form data, not JSON
You're then setting the request parameter as a JSON string (q)
The JSON string you're using in q isn't even valid (it's at least missing an opening curly brace) - and handwriting JSON is almost universally a bad idea, leverage a framework to do it for you instead.
Instead, the normal thing to do would be to create a POJO structure that maps to your request, so:
public class CrawlRequest {
private CrawlInnerRequest request;
#JsonProperty("spider_name")
private String spiderName;
//....add the getters / setters
}
public class CrawlInnerRequest {
private String url;
private String callback;
#JsonProperty("dont_filter")
private String dontFilter;
//....add the getters / setters
}
...then simply create a CrawlRequest, set the values as you wish, then in your post call use:
.body(BodyInserters.fromValue(crawlRequest))
This is a rather fundamental, basic part of using a WebClient. I'd suggest reading around more widely to give yourself a better understanding of the fundamentals, it will help tremendously in the long run.

Answer 2

For me following code worked:
public String wcPost(){
Map<String, String> bodyMap = new HashMap();
bodyMap.put("key1","value1");
WebClient client = WebClient.builder()
.baseUrl("domainURL")
.build();
String responseSpec = client.post()
.uri("URI")
.headers(h -> h.setBearerAuth("token if any"))
.body(BodyInserters.fromValue(bodyMap))
.exchange()
.flatMap(clientResponse -> {
if (clientResponse.statusCode().is5xxServerError()) {
clientResponse.body((clientHttpResponse, context) -> {
return clientHttpResponse.getBody();
});
return clientResponse.bodyToMono(String.class);
}
else
return clientResponse.bodyToMono(String.class);
})
.block();
return responseSpec;
}