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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.

Shell
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 ...