RestTemplate: exchange() vs postForEntity() vs execute()

Question

I am working on Rest API using Spring boot and I had to access an application\'s endpoint. I used RestTemplate for it. I was able to do it using 2 methods,

Answer 1

If you look at the implementation of both postForEntity and exchange method you will see that both use the execute methods in the back. Using the exchange method will give you more freedom for calling different http methods.