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REST APIs Request and Response

REST APIs Request and Response

Let’s learn to use JSON/XML in the request and response of the REST APIs.

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REST API Request

The Content-Type header

We’ve seen a few POST and PUT requests to the REST API endpoints with the JSON request body.

For example, look at the already discussed POST request to create the TodoType object.

curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:8080/api/todoType/' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{"code": "PERSONAL","description": "Todo for Personal Work"}'

In this request, the value of the Content-Type header is application/json. So, the application looks for the data in the request body and deserializes it considering JSON.

Similarly, we can set the Content-type header as application/xml for ...