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Java - HttpURLConnection PUT request with empty body

I'm trying make a request with Java, when I call it using cURL like this, it works:
curl -X PUT http://serverurl.com/method/6eb276a2-5c79-4f6e-a4b5-a26b0e6848c7/action -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Token: cba5f12c-af55-480f-970e-525e446ef153' -H 'Content-Length : 0'
If I call the same request without passing header Content-Length param, I get 411 HTTP error, length required.
This is my code in Java:
URL url = new URL("http://serverurl.com/method/6eb276a2-5c79-4f6e-a4b5-a26b0e6848c7/action");
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("PUT");
con.addRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
con.addRequestProperty("Token", "cba5f12c-af55-480f-970e-525e446ef153");
con.connect();
This request is getting a 411 HTTP code response. So, I tryed to add:
con.addRequestProperty("Content-Length", "0");
But it doesn't work, so I changed to:
URL url = new URL("http://serverurl.com/method/6eb276a2-5c79-4f6e-a4b5-a26b0e6848c7/action");
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("PUT");
con.addRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
con.addRequestProperty("Token", "cba5f12c-af55-480f-970e-525e446ef153");
con.setDoOutput(true);
con.getOutputStream().close();
con.setFixedLengthStreamingMode(0);
con.connect();
But now I'm getting 400 HTTP code.
How can I do a PUT request with an empty body and setting content length to match the cURL call?

using the HttpUrlConnection, you should use the setRequestProperty method to add headers to your request. I can see your using the "addRequestProperty" which is probably why its not working. But refer to this link for more info https://juffalow.com/java/how-to-send-http-get-post-request-in-java and heres some code that i use to for a put request
URL url = new URL(BASE_URL+"/"+userID+".json");
urlRequest = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
urlRequest.setDoOutput(true);
urlRequest.setRequestMethod("PUT");
urlRequest.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json;
charset=UTF-8");
OutputStream os = urlRequest.getOutputStream();
OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(os, "UTF-8");
osw.write("{\"idToken\":\""+"token"+"\"}");
osw.flush();
osw.close();
urlRequest.connect();
JsonParser jp = new JsonParser(); //from gson
JsonElement root = jp.parse(new InputStreamReader((InputStream)
urlRequest.getContent()));//Convert the input stream to a json element
JsonObject rootobj = root.getAsJsonObject();//Maybe an array or object
well thats just sample what i use... and i hope this works for you. Happy coding.

POST request working fine with POSTMAN/Advance rest client while giving 400 error with HttpUrlConnection

I am a newbie to HttpClient so not sure what's wrong I am doing. I am hitting one POST request through HttpUrlConnection. After sending the request when I check the logs it doesn't hit the entire request. My URL is https://www.example.com/product/pd/v1/gql when I check on the server, for URI, it shows v1/gql and give 400 error. while the same request works perfectly from Postman and advance rest client.
URL obj = new URL("https://www.example.com/product/pd/v1/gql/");
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", USER_AGENT);
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
conn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", "_bb_vid=djfhhf");
JSONObject val = new JSONObject(gqlValue2);
JSONObject jObj = new JSONObject();
jObj.put(gqlKey1, gqlValue1);
jObj.put(gqlKey2, val);
System.out.println(jObj);
OutputStreamWriter wr = new
OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(jObj.toString());
wr.flush();

Whole JSONObject sent as JSON key using HttpURLConnection in Android

I want to send a POST request to my NodeJS/Express API with some JSON data. I managed to make GET requests with no problem. Here's what I do for a POST request:
URL u = new URL(url);
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
jsonObject.put("nombre", "testing");
c = (HttpURLConnection) u.openConnection();
c.setDoOutput(true);
c.setRequestMethod("POST");
c.setRequestProperty("Content-length", Integer.toString(URLEncoder.encode(jsonObject.toString(),"UTF-8").length()));
c.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
c.setUseCaches(false);
c.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
c.setConnectTimeout(0);
c.setReadTimeout(0);
c.connect();
DataOutputStream printout = new DataOutputStream(c.getOutputStream ());
printout.writeBytes(URLEncoder.encode(jsonObject.toString(),"UTF-8"));
printout.flush ();
printout.close ();
int status = c.getResponseCode();
In my API, I have a console.log(req.body); to see what is my POST route getting, and this is what I get in my console:
Got this for POST:
{ '{"nombre":"testing"}': '' }
The whole JSONObject is sent as the key for the JSON object with an empty value on the HTTP POST request. Any ideas on what am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Try replace
c.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
with
c.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
and
printout.writeBytes(URLEncoder.encode(jsonObject.toString(),"UTF-8"));
with
printout.writeBytes(jsonObject.toString());

POST from android to WCF Service (OData)

Edit:
After doing some more experimentation, I discovered that the request will only work if all of the values are quoted in the JSON string. That is to say that this won't work
{"Text":"test","RatingValue":0.0,"LocationID":5}
and this will
{"Text":"test","RatingValue":"0.0","LocationID":"5"}
What I don't understand is why. The first string seems to be a valid JSON string. Is this a quirk with WCF?
Original Post
I am trying to post a new item to a collection from android. I keep getting a response code of 400: Bad Request. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong and I was hoping someone might be able to help me. Here is the java code.
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) uri.toURL().openConnection();
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
conn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", userAgent);
conn.setChunkedStreamingMode(0);
conn.setDoInput(true);
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.connect();
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(conn.getOutputStream());
out.write(data.getBytes());
out.flush();
int code = conn.getResponseCode();
String message = conn.getResponseMessage();
conn.disconnect();
The data is a JSON string that looks like the following:
{"Text":"test","RatingValue":3.0,"ReviewID":0,"LocationID":5}
In this case the ReviewID is the primary key.
The URL for the request points to the collection of Ratings. If i paste the same location into my browser, it successfully queries the collection. It looks something like this:
http://localhost/DataService.svc/Ratings

try this :
HttpClient hc = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost hp = new HttpPost("http://localhost/DataService.svc/Ratings");
HttpResponse hr;
JSONObject jo1 = new JSONObject();
joobject.put("Text", "test");
joobject.put("RatingValue", "3.0");
joobject.put("ReviewID", ".0");
joobject.put("LocationID", ".5");
StringEntity se = new StringEntity(joobject.toString(),HTTP.UTF_8);
se.setContentType("application/json");
hp.setEntity(se);
hr = hc.execute(hp);
maybe helpful

HttpURLConnection sends a POST request even though httpCon.setRequestMethod("GET"); is set

Here is my code:
String addr = "http://172.26.41.18:8080/domain/list";
URL url = new URL(addr);
HttpURLConnection httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpCon.setDoOutput(true);
httpCon.setDoInput(true);
httpCon.setUseCaches(false);
httpCon.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
httpCon.setRequestMethod("GET");
httpCon.addRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic YWRtaW4fYFgjkl5463");
httpCon.connect();
OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(httpCon.getOutputStream());
System.out.println(httpCon.getResponseCode());
System.out.println(httpCon.getResponseMessage());
out.close();
What I see in response:
500 Server error
I open my httpCon var, and what I see:
POST /rest/platform/domain/list HTTP/1.1
Why is it set to POST even though I have used httpCon.setRequestMethod("GET"); to set it to GET?

The httpCon.setDoOutput(true); implicitly set the request method to POST because that's the default method whenever you want to send a request body.
If you want to use GET, remove that line and remove the OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(httpCon.getOutputStream()); line. You don't need to send a request body for GET requests.
The following should do for a simple GET request:
String addr = "http://172.26.41.18:8080/domain/list";
URL url = new URL(addr);
HttpURLConnection httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpCon.setUseCaches(false);
httpCon.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
httpCon.addRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic YWRtaW4fYFgjkl5463");
System.out.println(httpCon.getResponseCode());
System.out.println(httpCon.getResponseMessage());
See also:
Using java.net.URLConnection to fire and handle HTTP requests
Unrelated to the concrete problem, the password part of your Authorization header value doesn't seem to be properly Base64-encoded. Perhaps it's scrambled because it was examplary, but even if it wasn't I'd fix your Base64 encoding approach.