How to make a POST request using retrofit 2?

Question

I was only able to run the hello world example (GithubService) from the docs.

The problem is when I run my code, I get the following Error, inside of onFailure()

Use JsonReader.setLenient(true) to accept malformed JSON at line 1 column 1 path $

My API takes POST params value, so no need to encode them as JSON, but it does return the response in JSON.

For the response I got ApiResponse class that I generated using tools.

My interface:

public interface ApiService {
    @POST("/")
    Call<ApiResponse> request(@Body HashMap<String, String> parameters);
}

Here is how I use the service:

HashMap<String, String> parameters = new HashMap<>();
parameters.put("api_key", "xxxxxxxxx");
parameters.put("app_id", "xxxxxxxxxxx");

Call<ApiResponse> call = client.request(parameters);
call.enqueue(new Callback<ApiResponse>() {
    @Override
    public void onResponse(Response<ApiResponse> response) {
        Log.d(LOG_TAG, "message = " + response.message());
        if(response.isSuccess()){
            Log.d(LOG_TAG, "-----isSuccess----");
        }else{
            Log.d(LOG_TAG, "-----isFalse-----");
        }

    }
    @Override
    public void onFailure(Throwable t) {
        Log.d(LOG_TAG, "----onFailure------");
        Log.e(LOG_TAG, t.getMessage());
        Log.d(LOG_TAG, "----onFailure------");
    }
});

Solution 1

If you don't want JSON encoded params use this:

@FormUrlEncoded
@POST("/")
Call<ApiResponse> request(@Field("api_key") String apiKey, @Field("app_id") String appId);

Solution 2

You should be aware of how you want to encode the post params. Important is also the @Header annotation in the following. It is used to define the used content type in the HTTP header.

@Headers("Content-type: application/json")
@POST("user/savetext")
    public Call<Id> changeShortText(@Body MyObjectToSend text);

You have to encode your post params somehow. To use JSON for transmission you should add .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create(gson)) into your Retrofit declaration.

Retrofit restAdapter = new Retrofit.Builder()
                .baseUrl(RestConstants.BASE_URL)
                .addCallAdapterFactory(RxJavaCallAdapterFactory.create())
                .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create(gson))
                .client(httpClient)
                .build();

Another source of your problem could be that the JSON, that's coming from the rest backend seems to be not correct. You should check the json syntax with a validator, e.g. http://jsonlint.com/.

Comments

[Cool Do]

@Header not applicable to method so cannot compile, I dont want to encode to json , just post raw values

[Veeresh Charantimath]

Correction - @Headers("Content-type: application/json")

[GvSharma]

how to call post method with params here?