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How to manipulate Play Framework WS response from java controller

In Latest Play JAVA (v 2.6) I am trying to fetch 3rd party restful api and process the response for further calculation in the controller. As the response type is a CompletionStage I am unable to convert it to usable JSON string from the response.
What I have tried,
final WSResponse r = (WSResponse) ws.url(domainUrl).setRequestTimeout(5000).get();
final JsonNode result = r.asJson();
But no help.
I also tried to fetch using java HttpURLConnection but there is no help either as the request is stopping for ssl skipping error, which only can be solved from play configuration.
Advance thanks!

Use plain Jackson to parse the body String:
final WSResponse r = ...;
Json.mapper().readValue(r, Type.class)

Jetty servlet: How can I forward GET request with parameters as POST request with JSON body?

My web clients send GET requests with URL query parameters. The receiving App can only accept POST requests with JSON body. I would like to embed a jetty servlet to the receiving App which converts GET requests to POST request, with url parameters being converted to json format body.
Input GET url for example: http://localhost:8081/?key_1=value_1&key_2=3value_2...&key_n=value_n
Expected POST json payload: {"key_1":"value_1", "key_2":"value_2", ..."key_n":"value_n"}
Could you please illustrate how to implement such functions?
I`ve worked with other programming languages, but am completely new to java. I really really appreciate your help.
Thanks and best regards,
Fischlein

You can read all the query string parameter and put it into HashMap. Then serialize this hashmap using jackson-json api or google gson api.
Jackson Reference Url :
http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonHome

Read the parameters from the get request, create a json string and post it with a utility library like http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/

How to deserialize JSON object on the client side

I'm using Netty Socket IO to send socket.io content from Java (well, actually Scala.) I've tried several ways of sending a JSON object to the client:
hardcoded String
standard Java json library
Gson library
Each time, when the data gets to the client, it's just a string that looks like a JSON object. I'm currently sending it with:
case class Data(message:String) and gson.toJson(new Data("what up")). The object looks like this on the client: "{"message":"what up"}", although it's just a String and not a JSON object.
Any ideas on how to get an actual JSON object on the other side?
Thanks

This works (JQuery):
$.parseJSON(string)

How to parse serialized json from php web service in java play framework 1.2.x

I need to use some from from a php web service which rendering its data by serializing json in java play framework 1.2.x. What i am doing just using play WS function. and i am getting data from that service. But when I try to get it with JSONObject it throws excepiton which is so normal, because the returned data does not look a json format well. Any body who knows any workarounds or solution would be appreciated.
HttpResponse htp = WS.url("http://www.geoplugin.net/php.gp?ip=78.171.90.49").get();
System.out.println(htp.getContentType()+"\n"+htp.getStatusText()+"\n"+htp.getString());
The returned data :
a:18:{s:17:"geoplugin_request";s:12:"78.171.90.49";s:16:"geoplugin_status";i:200;s:16:"geoplugin_credit";s:145:"Some of the returned data includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from <a href=\'http://www.maxmind.com\'>http://www.maxmind.com</a>.";s:14:"geoplugin_city";s:8:"Istanbul";s:16:"geoplugin_region";s:8:"Istanbul";s:18:"geoplugin_areaCode";s:1:"0";s:17:"geoplugin_dmaCode";s:1:"0";s:21:"geoplugin_countryCode";s:2:"TR";s:21:"geoplugin_countryName";s:6:"Turkey";s:23:"geoplugin_continentCode";s:2:"EU";s:18:"geoplugin_latitude";s:7:"41.0186";s:19:"geoplugin_longitude";s:9:"28.964701";s:20:"geoplugin_regionCode";s:2:"34";s:20:"geoplugin_regionName";s:8:"Istanbul";s:22:"geoplugin_currencyCode";s:3:"TRY";s:24:"geoplugin_currencySymbol";s:15:"YTL";s:29:"geoplugin_currencySymbol_UTF8";s:3:"YTL";s:27:"geoplugin_currencyConverter";s:6:"2.2669";}

You are accessing the PHP endpoint. You need to hit this URL instead:
http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=78.171.90.49

Passing POJOs vs Strings (json encoded) to my applications WebApi

I have some forms and databases that will fill up some POJO's with data. Using Json (gson) I"m going to upload the data to my web server. The server will send back a responses that will eventually be placed back in objects.
My question is, should I encode/decode my objects to json and then pass strings back and forth to my WebApi class? Or should I pass my WebApi class my object and have it pass back an appropriate response object (based on the method I call.)?
So at when I call my Api that has all the http conection stuff in it, it would look something like this.
myWebApi postSomeData( jsonData ); //
Should jsonData be a pojo that will be encoded into json string inside myWebApi or should I encode it into json and pass in a string.
Or in otherwords
String postSomeData( String jsonData){
web code here..
}
or
ResponsePojo postSomeData( PostData myData){
...
myMapper.MapFrom(myData); //converts pojo to json
...
webcode
}
At some point there will be images included in the data needed to be uploaded.

I would recommend using json for data transfer, it will make your services technology independent.
You can use flexjon to serialize java objects in a pretty direct way on the server side.
For images you will need to do post http POST anyway, this should be done separately from data submit since an error in a image upload should not result in data loss. Typically you'll associate the id of your data object in the uploaded image (or reversly), so you need to insert your object to db and wait for the response to insert the dependency id to your image.
Best Regards,
Zied Hamdi
http://1vu.fr