java android spring: no suitable HttpMessageConverter found for request type

Question

I've been trying to post heartbeats from my Android app to a web service using Spring's RestTemplate and I keep getting the following error:

org.springframework.web.client.RestClientException: Could not write request: no suitable HttpMessageConverter found for request type [dk.actura.services.HeartBeat]

Here is where I use the RestTemplate:

RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();

// Add the String message converter
restTemplate.getMessageConverters().add(new StringHttpMessageConverter());

// Make the HTTP GET request, marshaling the response to a String
HeartBeat heartBeat = new HeartBeat();
return restTemplate.postForObject(url + "SendHeartBeat", heartBeat, String.class);

Here is the HeartBeat class:

public class HeartBeat {
    private int Id;
    private String SignalType;
    private long HeartBeatTime;
    private int UnitId;
    private short BatteryPercentage;
    private short SignalStrength;

    public int getId() {
        return Id;
    }

    public void setId(int id) {
        Id = id;
    }

    public String getSignalType() {
        return SignalType;
    }

    public void setSignalType(String signalType) {
        SignalType = signalType;
    }

    public long getHeartBeatTime() {
        return HeartBeatTime;
    }

    public void setHeartBeatTime(long heartBeatTime) {
        HeartBeatTime = heartBeatTime;
    }

    public int getUnitId() {
        return UnitId;
    }

    public void setUnitId(int unitId) {
        UnitId = unitId;
    }

    public short getBatteryPercentage() {
        return BatteryPercentage;
    }

    public void setBatteryPercentage(short batteryPercentage) {
        BatteryPercentage = batteryPercentage;
    }

    public short getSignalStrength() {
        return SignalStrength;
    }

    public void setSignalStrength(short signalStrength) {
        SignalStrength = signalStrength;
    }

    public HeartBeat() {
        Id = -1;
        Date date = null;
        try {
            SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat();
            sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
            date = sdf.parse(sdf.format(new Date()));
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        SignalType = "4G";
        HeartBeatTime = date.getTime();
        UnitId = 1;
        BatteryPercentage = 1;
        SignalStrength = 21;
    }

    public HeartBeat(String signalType, long heartBeatTime, int unitId, short batteryPercentage, short signalStrength) {
        SignalType = signalType;
        HeartBeatTime = heartBeatTime;
        UnitId = unitId;
        BatteryPercentage = batteryPercentage;
        SignalStrength = signalStrength;
    }
}

The message is clear, right? How is spring going to post your object 'Heartbeat' to a POST object? as JSON? As ASCII, as serialized Binary? Have you checked on stack overflow for something similar? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28753773/could-not-write-request-no-suitable-httpmessageconverter-found-for-request-type http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13604224/no-suitable-httpmessageconverter-found-when-trying-to-execute-restclient-request etc... — Koos Gadellaa, Aug 25 '16 at 12:35
well id love it to be posted as JSON but i cant see how i can tell this to spring — Mathias, Aug 25 '16 at 13:10

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 01 '16 at 10:43

This fixed my problem

RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
HeartBeat heartBeat = new HeartBeat(appPreferences.getInt("UnitId"), (short) bM.getIntProperty(BatteryManager.BATTERY_PROPERTY_CAPACITY), (short) myPhoneStateListener.getSignalStrength(), mSignalType);
restTemplate.getMessageConverters().add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter());
HttpHeaders httpHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
httpHeaders.setAccept(Arrays.asList(new MediaType("application", "json", Charset.forName("UTF-8"))));
try {
    HttpEntity<HeartBeat> entityHeartBeat = new HttpEntity<>(heartBeat, httpHeaders);
    ResponseEntity<String> responseEntity = restTemplate.exchange(url + "SendHeartBeat",
                    HttpMethod.POST, entityHeartBeat, String.class);
    return responseEntity.getBody();
} catch (Exception e) {
    Log.e("SiteConnection", ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> " + e.getLocalizedMessage());
    e.printStackTrace();
}

java android spring: no suitable HttpMessageConverter found for request type

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