Spring Boot RestTemplate post without response type

Question

I need to call another api and I am trying to use postForEntity as below:

restTemplate.postForEntity(postUrl, request, responseType)

Now, the api that I am calling is returning an object of a particular type, let's say CustomerDto. But I am not interested in this object. I just want to post and I don't want anything in return so I don't want to create this CustomerDto class in my application. So, for this scenario, in the above statement, what should i replace for responseType. In case, I had wanted the returned object, I would have given CustomerDto.class in case of responseType, but I dont want anything in return, so what do I do?

score 23 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 22 '18 at 08:34

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You can use postForLocation instead of postForEntity.

restTemplate.postForLocation(postUrl, request)

answered Jun 22 '18 at 08:34

pvpkiran

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Thanks much for the solution. :) – T Anna Jun 22 '18 at 12:49
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I would still appreciate if Spring would add a simple `restTemplate.post(url)` method. There are use cases where the response can simply be ignored. `postForLocation` works fine, but the method name looks awkward, if the return is simply ignored. – Stefan Haberl Mar 05 '20 at 12:11

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 26 '21 at 08:40

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Another way is to use Void.class as response-type

answered Jan 26 '21 at 08:40

wutzebaer

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