2.1.4-rc3 - Not Working on Android

Client logs:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No direct method <init>(Ljava/lang/String;Lorg/apache/http/entity/ContentType;)V in class Lorg/apache/http/entity/StringEntity; or its super classes (declaration of 'org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity' 

Location of this issue: https://github.com/tomakehurst/wiremock/blob/2.0-beta/src/main/java/com/github/tomakehurst/wiremock/client/HttpAdminClient.java

Line 232:

private String postJsonAssertOkAndReturnBody(String url, String json, int expectedStatus) {
        ...
            StringEntity stringEntity = new StringEntity(json, APPLICATION_JSON);
            post.setEntity(stringEntity);
       ...
}

That StringEntity constructor is not supported on the Apache HTTP Client on Android. Please refer to a previous PR which fixed this to allow support on Android - https://github.com/tomakehurst/wiremock/pull/330/files

Usable on Android:

StringEntity stringEntity = new StringEntity(json);
stringEntity.setContentType(APPLICATION_JSON.getMimeType());
post.setEntity(stringEntity);

This should be updated and documented on why this method signature is used. It looks like this slipped back in as it’s the more concise way to write it. Also, if there are any other usages of this constructor, those should be updated to use this as well.

[tomakehurst]

Ah good, glad it works for you too.

I got it to work by switching to a constructor that took the charset as a String. It is deprecated in the current version of HTTPClient, but still present so I guess it had been around since since the 4.0 version Android provides by default.

[handstandsam]

Thanks for the explanation, sounds great! I updated my examples project (https://github.com/handstandsam/AndroidHttpMockingExamples) to use 2.1.5-rc4 and it’s working great. I’m closing this as it’s now working 👍