{title:'Response Content', created:'8.2.0', updated:'9.0.0'}

The response body is accessed through the following method:

- {@link oajrc.RestResponse}
  - {@link oajrc.RestResponse#getContent() getContent()} returns {@link oajrc.ResponseContent}

The {@link oajrc.ResponseContent} class extends from the HttpClient {@link org.apache.http.HttpEntity} class and provides several convenience methods:

- {@link oajrc.ResponseContent}
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#asInputStream() asInputStream()} returns InputStream
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#asReader() asReader()} returns Reader
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#asReader(Charset) asReader(Charset)} returns Reader
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#pipeTo(OutputStream) pipeTo(OutputStream)} returns {@link oajrc.RestResponse}
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#pipeTo(Writer) pipeTo(Writer)} returns {@link oajrc.RestResponse}
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#as(Type,Type...) as(Type,Type...)} returns T
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#as(Class) as(Class<T>)} returns T
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#asFuture(Class) asFuture(Class<T>)} returns Future<T>
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#asFuture(Type,Type...) asFuture(Type,Type...)} returns Future<T>
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#asString() asString()} returns String
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#asStringFuture() asStringFuture()} returns Future<String>
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#asAbbreviatedString(int) asAbbreviatedString(int)} returns String
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#asMatcher(Pattern) asMatcher(Pattern)} returns {@link java.util.regex.Matcher}
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#asMatcher(String) asMatcher(String)} returns {@link java.util.regex.Matcher}

##### Examples:

| // Parse into a bean. | MyBean bean = client | .get(URI) | .run() | .getContent().as(MyBean. class); | | // Parse into a linked-list of strings. | List<String> list1 = client | .get(URI) | .run() | .getContent().as(LinkedList. class, String. class); | | // Parse into a linked-list of beans. | List<MyBean> list2 = client | .get(URI) | .run() | .getContent().as(LinkedList. class, MyBean. class); | | // Parse into a linked-list of linked-lists of strings. | List<List<String>> list3 = client | .get(URI) | .run() | .getContent().as(LinkedList. class, LinkedList. class, String. class); | | // Parse into a map of string keys/values. | Map<String,String> map1 = client | .get(URI) | .run() | .getContent().as(TreeMap. class, String. class, String. class); | | // Parse into a map containing string keys and values of lists containing beans. | Map<String,List<MyBean>> map2 = client | .get(URI) | .run() | .getContent().as(TreeMap. class, String. class, List. class, MyBean. class);

The response body can only be consumed once unless it has been cached into memory. In many cases, the body is automatically cached when using the assertions methods or methods such as {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#asString()}. However, methods that involve reading directly from the input stream cannot be called twice. In these cases, the {@link oajrc.RestResponse#cacheContent()} and {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#cache()} methods are provided to cache the response body in memory so that you can perform several operations against it.

| // Cache the response body so we can access it twice. | InputStream inputStream = client | .get(URI) | .run() | .cacheContent() | .getContent().pipeTo(someOtherStream) | .getContent().asInputStream();

Assertion methods are also provided for fluent-style calls:

- {@link oajrc.ResponseContent}
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#assertString() assertString()} returns {@link oaj.assertions.FluentStringAssertion}
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#assertBytes() assertBytes()} returns {@link oaj.assertions.FluentByteArrayAssertion}
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#assertObject(Class) assertObject(Class)} returns {@link oaj.assertions.FluentObjectAssertion}
  - {@link oajrc.ResponseContent#assertObject(Type,Type...) assertObject(Type,Type...)} returns {@link oaj.assertions.FluentObjectAssertion}

##### Example:

| // Assert that the body contains the string "Success". | String content = client | .get(URI) | .run() | .getContent().assertString().contains("Success") | .getContent().asString();

Object assertions allow you to parse the response body into a POJO and then perform various tests on that resulting POJO.

##### Example:

| // Parse bean into POJO and then validate that it was parsed correctly. | MyBean bean = client.get(URI) | .run() | .getContent().assertObject(MyBean. class).asJson().is("{foo:'bar'}") | .getContent().as(MyBean. class);