How to POST form data with Spring RestTemplate?

The POST method should be sent along the HTTP request object. And the request may contain either of HTTP header or HTTP body or both.

Hence let's create an HTTP entity and send the headers and parameter in body.

HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED);MultiValueMap<String, String> map= new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, String>();map.add("email", "first.last@example.com");HttpEntity<MultiValueMap<String, String>> request = new HttpEntity<MultiValueMap<String, String>>(map, headers);ResponseEntity<String> response = restTemplate.postForEntity( url, request , String.class );

http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/web/client/RestTemplate.html#postForObject-java.lang.String-java.lang.Object-java.lang.Class-java.lang.Object...-

How to POST mixed data: File, String[], String in one request.

You can use only what you need.

private String doPOST(File file, String[] array, String name) {    RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate(true);    //add file    LinkedMultiValueMap<String, Object> params = new LinkedMultiValueMap<>();    params.add("file", new FileSystemResource(file));    //add array    UriComponentsBuilder builder = UriComponentsBuilder.fromHttpUrl("https://my_url");    for (String item : array) {        builder.queryParam("array", item);    }    //add some String    builder.queryParam("name", name);    //another staff    String result = "";    HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();    headers.setContentType(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA);    HttpEntity<LinkedMultiValueMap<String, Object>> requestEntity =            new HttpEntity<>(params, headers);    ResponseEntity<String> responseEntity = restTemplate.exchange(            builder.build().encode().toUri(),            HttpMethod.POST,            requestEntity,            String.class);    HttpStatus statusCode = responseEntity.getStatusCode();    if (statusCode == HttpStatus.ACCEPTED) {        result = responseEntity.getBody();    }    return result;}

The POST request will have File in its Body and next structure:

POST https://my_url?array=your_value1&array=your_value2&name=bob 

here is the full program to make a POST rest call using spring's RestTemplate.

import java.util.HashMap;import java.util.Map;import org.springframework.http.HttpEntity;import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;import org.springframework.util.LinkedMultiValueMap;import org.springframework.util.MultiValueMap;import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;import com.ituple.common.dto.ServiceResponse;   public class PostRequestMain {    public static void main(String[] args) {        // TODO Auto-generated method stub        MultiValueMap<String, String> headers = new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, String>();        Map map = new HashMap<String, String>();        map.put("Content-Type", "application/json");        headers.setAll(map);        Map req_payload = new HashMap();        req_payload.put("name", "piyush");        HttpEntity<?> request = new HttpEntity<>(req_payload, headers);        String url = "http://localhost:8080/xxx/xxx/";        ResponseEntity<?> response = new RestTemplate().postForEntity(url, request, String.class);        ServiceResponse entityResponse = (ServiceResponse) response.getBody();        System.out.println(entityResponse.getData());    }}