Spring bean as REST client

[pastafarian]

Hi,

I'm new to spring and working with some existing REST client code. The code successfully calls an outside REST web service by passing it a json request string and receiving a json response string

String resp = client.postForObject( serviceUrl, jsonRequestString, String.class );

and I catch RestClientException that might result from this call.

What happens to the HTTP response and other header information? Is there a different call through which I can get the entire HTTP response? Something like this pseudocode:

HttpRequest httpReq = new HttpRequest(jsonRequestString);
HttpResponse httpResp = client.makeHttpCall(serviceUrl, httpReq);
HttpResponseCode = httpResp.getCode();
String resp = httpResp.getBody();
...

Thanks.

[stevelibonati]

Have you taken a look at http://static.springsource.org/sprin...nseEntity.html ?