How to do a PUT using RestTemplate

Question

I can do this for POST

ResponseEntity<ResponseMessage> response = restTemplate.postForEntity(URL, animal, ResponseMessage.class);
return response.getBody();

But why there is no putForEntity for PUT? There is just resTemplate.put(...

How do I do it for 'PUT' request.

Answer 1

You can use:

restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.PUT, requestEntity, ...)

Here is the link to the documentation of this method.

Answer 2

You can use PUT instead, reason why putForEntity is not available because as per standard PUT will not return a response body but 201 or 200 in most of the cases.