Tuesday 19 January 2016

Rest Template: Could Not Extract Response – No Suitable HttpMessageConverter Found for Response Type [X] and Content Type

When invoking a web service using RestTemplate:-

restTemplate.getForObject("http://www.server.com/api", Bean[].class));
… the following exception occurs:-

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.web.client.RestClientException:
Could not extract response: no suitable HttpMessageConverter found for response
type [class [LMyBean;] and content type [application/json;charset=UTF-8]
at org.springframework.web.client.HttpMessageConverterExtractor.extractData(HttpMessageConverterExtractor.java:1110)
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.doExecute(RestTemplate.java:1572)
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.execute(RestTemplate.java:1530)
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.getForObject(RestTemplate.java:1237)



SOLUTION

If the content type is JSON, add the following dependency:-

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.6.0</version>
</dependency>


4 comments:

  1. Hello,
    could you explain the reason of this solution? It works fine, but I would like to understand it. Thanks

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  2. still did not solve problem for me....

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  3. This piece of code solved my problem...
    List> messageConverters = new ArrayList>();

    MediaType mediaTypeJson = new MediaType("application", "json");
    MediaType mediaTypeXml = new MediaType("application", "xml");
    MediaType mediaTypeText = new MediaType("plain", "text");

    List supportedMediaTypes = new ArrayList(
    Arrays.asList(mediaTypeJson, mediaTypeXml, mediaTypeText));
    MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter jacksonConverter = new MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter();
    jacksonConverter.setSupportedMediaTypes(supportedMediaTypes);
    messageConverters.add(jacksonConverter);
    template.setMessageConverters(messageConverters);

    Thanks,
    Mahesh

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  4. None of the above solutions worked for me.

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