detailedError":{"code":"BadRequest","message":"Invalid request: invalid position: cannot parse position."},"httpStatusCode":400}]

REST APIs
#1

I am trying to use reverse geocoding using the following end point: https://api.tomtom.com/search/2/reverseGeocode/crossStreet/37.8328%2C-122.27669.json?key=<api_key>. Although this works when passed in browser but shows the following error when I make restTemplate call using spring boot:
org.springframework.web.client.HttpClientErrorException$BadRequest: 400 Bad Request: [{"errorText":"Invalid request: invalid position: cannot parse position.","detailedError":{"code":"BadRequest","message":"Invalid request: invalid position: cannot parse position."},"httpStatusCode":400}]

This is the piece of code I am using:
@GetMapping("/revgeocode/data")
public Addresscontainer reverseGeoCode(@RequestParam String position)

        {

            Addresscontainer res = restTemplate.getForObject("https://api.tomtom.com/search/2/reverseGeocode/crossStreet/37.8328%2C-122.27669.json?key="+ apiKey, Addresscontainer.class);

            return res;

        }`

I am just a beginner. Please help.
Thanks in advance.

#2

Hi Arnob,
That is great that you are playing with TomTom API.
The issue you described may depend on your SpringBoot version. It regards the url encoding. I can see that the url String that you pass to the RestTemplate.getForObject method is already encoded. I think that you get this massage because it might be coded again somewhere in the http client.

The basic usage that works is:
String uriString = "https://api.tomtom.com/search/2/reverseGeocode/crossStreet/37.8328,-122.27669.json?key="; String forEntity = new RestTemplate().getForObject(uriString, String.class);

Since you make that working as expected you can move on with object mappings.

Hope it helps!

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