Spring restTemplate get raw json string

Question

How can I get the raw json string from spring rest template? I have tried following code but it returns me json without quotes which causes other issues, how can i get the json as is.

ResponseEntity<Object> response  = restTemplate.getForEntity(url, Object.class);
String json = response.getBody().toString();

Solution

You don't even need ResponseEntitys! Just use getForObject with a String.class like:

final RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
final String response = restTemplate.getForObject("https://httpbin.org/ip", String.class);

System.out.println(response);

It will print something like:

{
  "origin": "1.2.3.4"
}

Comments

[Brooklyn99]

My return type is object and I want the raw json string?

[wutzebaer]

this won't wotk when the server sends application/json as content type Cannot deserialize instance of java.lang.String out of START_ARRAY token it will only gibt you a string if the body just contains a json-string