apache commons httpclient - Java PostMethod with xml -

i trying post xml data body rest api.

i have method creates request called dorest.

string url = null;         httpmethod method;         log.info("query: " + query);         if (stringutil.isempty(query)) {             url = buildrequesturl("/issues.ashx/issues/mywork");             method = dorest(url, false);         } else {             url = buildrequesturl("/issues.ashx/issues/filters");             //method = dorest(url, true);             method = dorest(url, true);             string xml = "<issuesfilteren>" +                     "<issueid>" + query + "</issueid>" +                     "</issuesfilteren>";             requestentity entity = new stringrequestentity(xml,"text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1", null);   method.setrequestentity(entity);     } 

and dorest method

private httpmethod dorest(string request, boolean post) throws exception {         string uri = request;         httpmethod method = post ? new postmethod(uri) : new getmethod(uri);         configurehttpmethod(method);         httpclient client = gethttpclient();         client.getparams().setparameter(httpclientparams.so_timeout, timeoutlength);         client.executemethod(method);         return method;     } 

my issue method.setrequestentity saying method not found.

i have

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.httpclient; import org.apache.commons.httpclient.httpmethod; import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*; 

if set method = postmethod instead of method = dorest works don't want have in other methods create queries.

is there missing why method.setrequestentity not working way right now?

edit: got information using setrequestentity postmethod setrequestbody(string) deprecated - why?

edit 2: here ended doing.

private httpmethod dorest(string request, requestentity entity) throws exception {         string uri = request;         httpmethod method;         if ( entity != null ){             method = new postmethod(uri);             ((postmethod) method).setrequestentity(entity);          } else {             method = new getmethod(uri);         }         configurehttpmethod(method);         httpclient client = gethttpclient();         client.getparams().setparameter(httpclientparams.so_timeout, timeoutlength);         client.executemethod(method);         return method;     } 

you should modify dorest accept requestentity instead of boolean. pass in null , value post. use check see if need postmethod or getmethod. can have specific type can call postmethod setrequestentity().

edit:

you can avoid cast this:

private httpmethod dorest(string request, requestentity entity) throws exception {     string uri = request;     httpmethod method;     if ( entity != null ){         postmethod postmethod = new postmethod(uri);         postmethod.setrequestentity(entity);         method = postmethod;     } else {         method = new getmethod(uri);     }     configurehttpmethod(method);     httpclient client = gethttpclient();     client.getparams().setparameter(httpclientparams.so_timeout, timeoutlength);     client.executemethod(method);     return method; }