This method acquires an entity of an HTTP response. If the acquired entity is not an instance of the class that implemented the Closeable interface, the input stream is closed.

public <T> T getEntity(GenericType<T> gt)

throws ClientHandlerException,

UniformInterfaceException

gt

This is a GenericType object that represents the entity type.

The method returns the object of the type expressed by the specified GenericType object.

ClientHandlerException

This exception is thrown if a problem occurs during processing. The error message KDJJ18888-E is output to the log.

UniformInterfaceException

This exception is thrown if the HTTP status code is 204 No Content. The error message KDJJ18888-E is output to the log.

• For the Java types available for an HTTP response entity, see 25.15.2 Combination of Java types and MIME media types available for an HTTP response entity.
• You can invoke the method only once. The operation is not guaranteed if the method is invoked two or more times.