rest - How to fix Jersey POST request parameters warning?

Question

I'm building a very simple REST API using Jersey, and I've got a warning in my log files that I'm not sure about.

WARNING: A servlet POST request, to the URI http://myserver/mycontext/myapi/users/12345?action=delete, contains form parameters in the request body but the request body has been consumed by the servlet or a servlet filter accessing the request parameters. Only resource methods using @FormParam will work as expected. Resource methods consuming the request body by other means will not work as expected.

My webapp only has the Jersey servlet defined, mapped to /myapi/*

How can I stop these warnings?

Answer 1

For me the warning was showing for POST application/x-www-form-urlencoded. And I am using Spring Boot which has an HiddenHttpMethodFilter that does a getParameter before anything else... So I ended up doing this nasty override:

@Bean
    public HiddenHttpMethodFilter hiddenHttpMethodFilter() {
        return new HiddenHttpMethodFilter() {
            @Override
            protected void doFilterInternal(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response,
                    FilterChain filterChain) throws ServletException, IOException {
                if ("POST".equals(request.getMethod())
                        && request.getContentType().equals(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED_VALUE)) {
                    filterChain.doFilter(request, response);
                } else {
                    super.doFilterInternal(request, response, filterChain);
                }
            }
        };
    }