Java – Jersey Client API issues

Jersey Client API issues… here is a solution to the problem.

Jersey Client API issues

I’m writing an Android client that calls a web service. The service is written using the JAX-RS/Jersey API. I’m also trying to use the Jersey-Client API on the android side.

        Client client = Client.create();
        WebResource webResource = client.resource(server + "/api/restaurant_info/update");
        MultivaluedMap formData = new MultivaluedMapImpl();
        formData.add("id", id);
        formData.add("f", Boolean.toString(f));
        formData.add("fId", fId);
        ClientResponse response = webResource.type(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED).accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).post(ClientResponse.class, formData);
        RestInfo restInfo = response.getEntity(RestInfo.class);
        return restInfo;

I’ve tested the web service outside and it seems to work fine. When I try to call it from my application, I get a NullPointerException on the ClientResponse line.

03-26 14:15:43.735: WARN/System.err(1060): java.lang.NullPointerException
03-26 14:15:43.745: WARN/System.err(1060):     at javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType.valueOf(MediaType.java:119)
03-26 14:15:43.745: WARN/System.err(1060):     at com.sun.jersey.api.client.PartialRequestBuilder.type(PartialRequestBuilder.java:92)
03-26 14:15:43.755: WARN/System.err(1060):     at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.type(WebResource.java:309)
03-26 14:15:43.755: WARN/System.err(1060):     at com.era.external.era.ERAService.updateRestaurantFranchise(ERAService.java:80)
03-26 14:15:43.755: WARN/System.err(1060):     at com.era.android.RestaurantActivity$4.onItemSelected(RestaurantActivity.java:201)
03-26 14:15:43.755: WARN/System.err(1060):     at android.widget.AdapterView.fireOnSelected(AdapterView.java:856)
03-26 14:15:43.766: WARN/System.err(1060):     at android.widget.AdapterView.access$200(AdapterView.java:41)
03-26 14:15:43.766: WARN/System.err(1060):     at android.widget.AdapterView$SelectionNotifier.run(AdapterView.java:827)
03-26 14:15:43.776: WARN/System.err(1060):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
03-26 14:15:43.776: WARN/System.err(1060):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
03-26 14:15:43.776: WARN/System.err(1060):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
03-26 14:15:43.786: WARN/System.err(1060):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3948)
03-26 14:15:43.786: WARN/System.err(1060):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
03-26 14:15:43.796: WARN/System.err(1060):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
03-26 14:15:43.796: WARN/System.err(1060):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:782)
03-26 14:15:43.796: WARN/System.err(1060):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:540)
03-26 14:15:43.806: WARN/System.err(1060):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Any ideas about what I’m doing wrong?

Solution

From the stack trace, this may be what happened

  • 80 in the ERAService line updateRestaurantFranchise method
  • Line 201 in the RestaurantActivity onItemSelected method

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