I don't understand why this curl invocation gives me a 400 bad request.
curl -v -XGET -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d '{"match":{"first":"james"}}' http://localhost:8080/geocon/search/
Considered that this is the code part who should handle everything
@Path(Paths.SEARCH)
public class SearchService {
@GET
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public String search(@DefaultValue(NO_TYPE) @QueryParam("type") String type, String query) {
// do interesting stuff with the query
System.out.println(type);
System.out.println(query);
return //the result of the query
}
Obviously, I don't see in the console the two print lines and the answer from the web service is 400 Bad request
If I change the verb in curl and in the code (POST instead of GET), the results are OK and everything works as it should.
Why?
Can't I use GET passing data? If you think about it, I am not modifying stuff, I'd just receive data so GET should be the most RESTful translation for it.