web services - Jersey client exception: A message body writer was not found

Question

I am using Jersey client to hit a PHP web service for image uploading functionality. I am getting the following exception:

Caused by: com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandlerException: 
A message body writer for Java type, class 
com.sun.jersey.multipart.FormDataMultiPart, and MIME media type, 
multipart/form-data, was not found
    at com.sun.jersey.api.client.RequestWriter.writeRequestEntity(RequestWriter.java:288)
    at com.sun.jersey.client.urlconnection.URLConnectionClientHandler._invoke(URLConnectionClientHandler.java:204)
    at com.sun.jersey.client.urlconnection.URLConnectionClientHandler.handle(URLConnectionClientHandler.java:147)
    ... 63 more

This is the code I am using:

WebResource webResource = Client.create().resource(HTTP_REST_URI);
JSONObject jSONObj = webResource.queryParams(queryParams)
      .type(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA)
      .post(JSONObject.class, formDataMultiPart);

How can this exception be resolved?

Answer 1

Register the MultiPartWriter provider when creating the Client:

ClientConfig cc = new DefaultClientConfig();
Client client;

cc.getClasses().add(MultiPartWriter.class);
client = Client.create(cc);

If using Maven, these are the dependencies you need in your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
    <version>1.17.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-multipart</artifactId>
    <version>1.17.1</version>
</dependency>