I have problem with sending POST request to my rails application from Android app (using Spring for Android)
I have following Rails controller:
# POST /users
# POST /users.json
def create
@user = User.new(user_params)
respond_to do |format|
if @user.save
format.html { redirect_to @user, notice: 'User was successfully created.' }
format.json { render action: 'show', status: :created, location: @user }
else
format.html { render action: 'new' }
format.json { render json: @user.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
# Never trust parameters from the scary internet, only allow the white list through.
def user_params
params.require(:user).permit(:name, :email)
end
I'm sending POST request (using Spring for Android):
RestTemplate restTemplatePost = new RestTemplate();
restTemplatePost.getMessageConverters().add(new StringHttpMessageConverter());
UserDto user = new UserDto();
user.name = "testName";
user.email = "test@fromandroid.com";
Gson gson = new Gson();
String request = gson.toJson(user);
restTemplatePost.postForObject(createUserUrl, request, String.class);
} catch(RestClientException e) {
Log.e("POST",e.getLocalizedMessage());
}
value of String request is {"email":"test@fromandroid.com","name":"testName"}
and createUserUrl has value of: http://10.0.0.2:3000/users
however, I still get the following error:
> W/RestTemplate(3299): POST request for "http://10.0.0.2:3000/users"
> resulted in 400 (Bad Request); invoking error handler
I'm able to send the GET request, but POST doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? I used CURL to get better error message and it returns:
param not found: user
so the problem might be with required user and optional name and emails parameters which are accepted by REST API, but how should I format user in json for it to work?
I'd greatly appreciate your help!
