Cannot access Restlet service using POST from SOAP UI - json

Question

I created a series of REST services in Java using Restlets. The majority of these services use JSON, and I have no problem accessing them using SOAP UI via a GET request. However, when I try to access POST based services using SOAP UI, the Representation entity parameter is always null. I have searched Stack Overflow as well as the web, but could find nothing which I either haven't already done, or which addresses my problem.
Here is the code for a POST resource which always seems to receive a null entity:
public class CreateAccountResource extends ServerResource {
#Post("json")
public Representation createAccount(Representation entity) throws IOException {
String message = null;
boolean result = true;
try {
String post = entity.getText();
Object obj = new JSONParser().parse(post);
JSONObject jsonObject = (JSONObject) obj;
String username = (String) jsonObject.get("username");
String password = (String) jsonObject.get("password");
String email = (String) jsonObject.get("email");
// more code
}
catch (Exception e) {
// handle exception here
}
}
}
And here is a screen shot from my SOAP UI showing the configuration I used when sending the request:
In case you are wondering, I am using IntelliJ in debug mode to inspect the value of the entity, and the project uses Maven.

Answer 1

I never use Restlet however I think that since you specify #Post("json") annotation for your createAccount method; the method is waiting for a json in the POST body instead of passing the values as a query parameters.
So probably you must change your actual POST with the query parameters to a POST call to your URL http://localhost:8080/MyApp/service/createAccount passing the parameters in the body as json:
{
"username" : "tim",
"password" : "password",
"email" : "tim#me.com"
}
In SOAPUI could be something like:
Hope it helps,