How to receive application/pdf response from a server using RestTemplate

Question

I am trying capture the response of an HTTP request made by my java client code. The response has a content-type of application/pdf. In the logs I can see that the

Answer 1

Thanks Thomas it worked.

I added ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter to the RestTemplate and it worked.

Code I added:

ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter byteArrayHttpMessageConverter = new ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter();

List<MediaType> supportedApplicationTypes = new ArrayList<>();
MediaType pdfApplication = new MediaType("application","pdf");
supportedApplicationTypes.add(pdfApplication);

byteArrayHttpMessageConverter.setSupportedMediaTypes(supportedApplicationTypes);
List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> messageConverters = new ArrayList<>();
messageConverters.add(byteArrayHttpMessageConverter);
restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
restTemplate.setMessageConverters(messageConverters);

Object result = getRestTemplate().getForObject(url, returnClass, parameters);
byte[] resultByteArr = (byte[])result;