Spring RestTemplate with paginated API

Question

Our REST APIs are returning results in Pages. Here is an example of one Controller

@RequestMapping(value = "/search", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE + ";charset=UTF-8")
@ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.OK)
public Page<MyObject> findAll(Pageable pageable) {
  ...
}

Is there an easy way to consume that API with RestTemplate?

if we do

ParameterizedTypeReference<Page<MyObject>> responseType = new ParameterizedTypeReference<Page<MyObject>>() { };

ResponseEntity<Page<MyObject>> result = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.GET, null/*httpEntity*/, responseType);

List<MyObject> searchResult = result.getBody().getContent();

it throws an exception

org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException: Could not read document: Can not construct instance of org.springframework.data.domain.Page, 
problem: abstract types either need to be mapped to concrete types, have custom deserializer, or be instantiated with additional type information at [Source: java.io.PushbackInputStream@3be1e1f2; line: 1, column: 1]; nested exception is com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Can not construct instance of org.springframework.data.domain.Page, problem: abstract types either need to be mapped to concrete types, have custom deserializer, or be instantiated with additional type information

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Changed the code reading the Rest API response as;

ParameterizedTypeReference<RestResponsePage<MyObject>> responseType = new ParameterizedTypeReference<RestResponsePage<MyObject>>() { };

ResponseEntity<RestResponsePage<MyObject>> result = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.GET, null/*httpEntity*/, responseType);

List<MyObject> searchResult = result.getBody().getContent();

And here is the class I created for RestResponsePage

package com.basf.gb.cube.seq.vaadinui.util;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.springframework.data.domain.PageImpl;
import org.springframework.data.domain.Pageable;

public class RestResponsePage<T> extends PageImpl<T>{

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 3248189030448292002L;

  public RestResponsePage(List<T> content, Pageable pageable, long total) {
    super(content, pageable, total);
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
  }

  public RestResponsePage(List<T> content) {
    super(content);
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
  }

  /* PageImpl does not have an empty constructor and this was causing an issue for RestTemplate to cast the Rest API response
   * back to Page.
   */
  public RestResponsePage() {
    super(new ArrayList<T>());
  }

}