Getting null body in httpResponse

[kireol]

Reading my headers, it's reporting the correct number of bytes in the header. But the body is empty.

Header:

<200 OK,{Date=[Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:26:06 GMT], Server=[Apache], Vary=[Accept-Encoding], Content-Length=[5072], Keep-Alive=[timeout=10, max=100], Connection=[Keep-Alive], Content-Type=[text/html]}>

What am I doing wrong?

                String url = new String("http://www.myurl.com/scripts/json/v1/slipmanager.php");
		
		MultiValueMap<String, Object> formData = new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, Object>();
		formData.add("username", userName);
		formData.add("password", md5(userPassword));
		formData.add("method", "getslips");

		RestTemplate template = new RestTemplate(true);
		template.setRequestFactory(new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory());
		HttpHeaders requestHeaders = new HttpHeaders();

		requestHeaders.setContentType(new MediaType("multipart", "form-data"));
		template.getMessageConverters().add(new StringHttpMessageConverter());

		HttpEntity<MultiValueMap<String, Object>> request = new HttpEntity<MultiValueMap<String, Object>>(formData, requestHeaders);
		ResponseEntity<?> httpResponse = null;
		try
		{
			httpResponse = template.exchange(url, HttpMethod.POST, request, null);
			String tmp = (String) httpResponse.getBody();
                        //THIS IS WHERE THE BODY IS NULL
		}
		catch (Exception e) 
		{
			Log.e("POST", e.getMessage(), e);
		}

[Roy Clarkson]

@kireol try setting the responseType in the call to exchange like this:

ResponseEntity<String> response = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.POST, requestEntity, String.class);
String tmp = response.getBody();

[kireol]

Thank you Roy. That worked! Usually I'm good at reading the instructions. Guess I fell a bit short here.

@kireol try setting the responseType in the call to exchange like this:

ResponseEntity<String> response = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.POST, requestEntity, String.class);
String tmp = response.getBody();

[Roy Clarkson]

Good to hear! The combination of responseType and available message converters are used internally to determine how and if a response can be converted.

[kireol]

That's good to know; and a great feature. springframework is a great library