HMRC MTD Hello World with Qt - json

Question

I have a Qt program that stores all my small (tiny) company information on a sql database and I have over the years tailored it to do all my accounting stuff, invoices, BOMs etc.
At the push of a button I can get all of the necessary sql data to calculate a quarterly VAT return, but we're going to have to electronically submit all the data now, not just calculate it. I have all the data needed, it's just a case of submitting over HTTP using json (of which I know a little/nothing about respectively).
I'm small enough so that I don't have to do this submission at the moment, but the time will likely come, so I'm trying the most basic of requests in the HMRC's sandbox as a starting point.
On this page it shows you how to do an hello world request in Java, so I'm trying to do the same with Qt with C++.
I've tried the following which responds to the push of a button and I have of course, set up a slot to deal with a response:
void MainWindow::hello()
{
QJsonObject json;
QString rs("https://test-api.service.hmrc.gov.uk/hello/world");
QNetworkRequest request
{
QUrl(rs)
};
request.setHeader(QNetworkRequest::ContentTypeHeader,"application/vnd.hmrc.1.0+json");
request.setUrl(QUrl(rs));
manager->get(request);
}
and the main window init:
manager = new QNetworkAccessManager();
QObject::connect
(manager, &QNetworkAccessManager::finished, this, [=](QNetworkReply *reply)
{
if (reply->error())
{
ui->debugText->appendHtml(reply->errorString());
return;
}
QString answer = reply->readAll();
ui->debugText->appendHtml(answer);
}
);
To which I get the reply:
Error transferring https://test-api.service.hmrc.gov.uk/hello/world -
server replied: Not Acceptable
I assume that means I am communicating with the sever now, but I do not know what this terse error message means!
The Java on the HMRC web page is as follows:
// construct the GET request for our Hello World endpoint
HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(
"https://test-api.service.hmrc.gov.uk/hello/world");
request.addHeader("Accept", "application/vnd.hmrc.1.0+json");
// execute the request
HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
// extract the HTTP status code and response body
int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
String responseBody = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
Is that enough information for someone to point me in the right direction of what I'm doing wrong please? Suspect I am missing a fundamental point here.

Answer 1

In your Java example, you are setting the HTTP header "Accept". In your C++/Qt snippet, your are setting the "Content-Type" header.
You may want to adapt your code like this to match your Java working example:
QNetworkRequest request { QUrl(rs) };
request.setRawHeader(QByteArray("Accept"), QByteArray("application/vnd.hmrc.1.0+json"));
manager->get(request);