When posting, use the contentType specified in the shell and fall back to JSON if not specified.

Author: skuppa

src/main/java/org/springframework/data/rest/shell/commands/HttpCommands.java

@@ -307,9 +307,13 @@ public String execute(final HttpMethod method,
                         final boolean follow,
                         final String outputPath) {
     final StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
+    MediaType contentType = configCmds.getHeaders().getContentType();
+    if(contentType == null) {
+      contentType = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON;
+    }
 
     ResponseErrorHandler origErrHandler = restTemplate.getErrorHandler();
-    RequestHelper helper = (null == data ? new RequestHelper() : new RequestHelper(data, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
+    RequestHelper helper = (null == data ? new RequestHelper() : new RequestHelper(data, contentType));
     ResponseEntity<String> response;
     try {
       restTemplate.setErrorHandler(new ResponseErrorHandler() {
@@ -607,5 +611,4 @@ private class SslAwareClientHttpRequestFactory extends SimpleClientHttpRequestFa
       super.prepareConnection(connection, httpMethod);
     }
   }
-
 }

src/main/java/org/springframework/data/rest/shell/formatter/XmlFormatter.java

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ public Collection<String> getSupportedList() {
   public String format(String nonFormattedString) {
     try {
       Transformer serializer = SAXTransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
-      serializer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "true");
+      serializer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
       serializer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
       serializer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "2");
       Source xmlSource = new SAXSource(new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(nonFormattedString.getBytes())));