Server 415 Response code

Question

I am using Jetty web server, and Jersey for REST handling.

I defined:

@POST
@Path("/sendMessage")
@Consumes ({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.TEXT_XML})
public Response sendMessage(@Context final UriInfo uriInfo) 
{
    logger.debug("sendMessage:");
    System.out.println("Received POST!");
    return Response.status(Response.Status.OK).build();

}

However, when I send a http request, http://localhost:8080/hqsim/sendMessage, the server returns a 415 code.

It's like the call is not allowed. How can I fix this error?

Solution

415 means that the media type is unsupported. The most likely case is that you are either missing the Content-Type header in your request, or it's incorrect. In your case it must be application/xml or text/xml.