How to form protobuf resource part of http request body and test it through dhc client or postman for restful services

Question

I have created a .proto message and I'm exposing a rest service which looks like this

@Path("/test")
public interface test{

@POST
@Produces("application/x-protobuf")
@Consumes("application/x-protobuf")
public Response getProperties(TestRequest testrq);
}

Now TestRequest being the Java generated file of .protobuf how do i pass it in request body ?

this will be be the .proto file format

message TestRequest
{
    string id = 1;
    string name = 2;
    enum TestType
    {
        Test=1
    }
   TestType testType = 3; 
}

Answer 1

Give Protoman a try if you need a simple protobuf api client.

Disclaimer: It's my side project

Answer 2

You can use this code snippet to test the protobuf as i don't find any solution with postman or dhcclient

URL url = new URL("https://localhost:8080/test");
HttpURLConnection urlc = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
urlc.setDoInput(true);
urlc.setDoOutput(true);
urlc.setRequestMethod("POST");
urlc.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/x-protobuf");
urlc.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","application/x-protobuf");
TestRequestPb.TestRequest.Builder testRequestBuilder = TestRequestPb.TestRequest.newBuilder();
TestRequest testRequest = testRequestBuilder.build();
testRequest.writeTo(urlc.getOutputStream());

testRequest = TestRequest.newBuilder().mergeFrom(urlc.getInputStream()).build();