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Is there any way to make a post request with OkHTTP that does not have a request body?

james.garriss
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    RequestBody reqbody = RequestBody.create(null, new byte[0]);  
    Request.Builder formBody = new Request.Builder().url(url).method("POST",reqbody).header("Content-Length", "0");
    clientOk.newCall(formBody.build()).enqueue(OkHttpCallBack());
Nikola Despotoski
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Justcurious
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  • The library should offer this through an easy interface, that's crappy interface design for a popular library and common use case. But thanks for your answer. – html_programmer Oct 26 '22 at 13:09
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This worked for me:

RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(null, new byte[]{});
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I'm using okhttp3.

You can also do this for an empty request body:

val empty: RequestBody = EMPTY_REQUEST

For a POST:

val request = Request.Builder().url(http).post(EMPTY_REQUEST).build()
Mobile Ben
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    Perfect! Thanks – David Jul 01 '21 at 18:49
  • Using this EMPTY_REQUEST caused some weird ClassNotFound exception – Tgo1014 May 12 '22 at 18:36
  • `EMPTY_REQUEST` is in the internal package (`okhttp3.internal`), so it isn't intended to be used by library users. But you can simply declare the constant in your own code like this: `val EMPTY_REQUEST = ByteArray(0).toRequestBody()`. – bcody Oct 04 '22 at 14:54
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  • "".toRequestBody()
  • "".toRequestBody("application/json".toMediaTypeOrNull())

...depends on which media type your endpoint expects.

Alex
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    This answer is for kotlin btw. If the IDE doesn't recognize this, you must import the extension function: `import okhttp3.RequestBody.Companion.toRequestBody` – netcyrax Jan 31 '20 at 22:20
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The below method with the arguments arguments has been deprecated in okhhtp3.

RequestBody.create(null, new byte[0])

The below solution worked for me.

RequestBody.create("",null))

Request.Builder().url(errorRetryUrl).post(RequestBody.create("",null)).build()

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