Invalid mimetype exception in Spring boot rest call - spring-boot

Question

I am new to both Spring boot and rest calls.
I am trying to consume a rest service and I do not have any information about that rest API except URL. When I hit that URL from a browser I am getting a response as {key:value}. So, I assumed that it is a JSON response.
I am consuming it in spring boot as follows
restTemplate.getForObject(url, String.class) .
This is giving Invalid mime type "content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1": Invalid token character ':' in token "content-type: text"
I assume that this error is because response content type is set to text/plain but it is returning JSON format.
EDIT:
Tried this way but did not work.
HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers.setAccept(Arrays.asList(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
HttpEntity<String> entity = new HttpEntity<String>("parameters",headers);
ResponseEntity<String> result = restTemplate.exchange(url,HttpMethod.GET,
entity, String.class);
How to handle and solve it?

Answer 1

You might want to read about the request headers your REST API needs. Content-Type header specifies the media type of the request you're sending to the server. Because you're just getting data from the server you should set the Accept header to the kind of response you want i.e., Accept: application/json.
Unfortunately, you can't set headers using getForObject(). You could try this:
URL url = new URL("Enter the URL of the REST endpoint");
con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("GET");
con.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
if (con.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
StringBuffer content = new StringBuffer();
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
content.append(inputLine);
}
in.close();
}