Volley body 400 error - http

Question

I want to send a POST to a server with the body that is true or false. I have this code and I use the Volley library
ShoozyHeader() set Content type to text/plain and Accept to text/plain and other headers necessary for the authentication.
If I try on http://requestmaker.com/ and the server responds correctly but I run this code the server responds:
Bad Request - Invalid Header
HTTP Error 400. The request has an invalid header name.
If I remove the getBody() the server respond fine.
final String url = POSTS_URI + idPost + "/likes";
StringRequest strReq = new StringRequest(Request.Method.POST,
url, new Response.Listener<String>() {
#Override
public void onResponse(String response) {
Log.d(TAG, response);
}
}, new Response.ErrorListener() {
#Override
public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
VolleyLog.d(TAG, "Error: " + error.getMessage());
Toast.makeText(act, "Network error", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
) {
#Override
public byte[] getBody() throws AuthFailureError {
return "true".getBytes();
}
};

Answer 1

Try this one, it worked fine for me:
JSONObject params = new JSONObject();
try {
params.put("likes", "true");
} catch (JSONException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
//
JsonObjectRequest jsonObjReq = new JsonObjectRequest(Method.POST,
url, params,
new Response.Listener<JSONObject>() {
#Override
public void onResponse(JSONObject response) {
Log.d(TAG, response.toString());
}
}, new Response.ErrorListener() {
#Override
public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
VolleyLog.d(TAG, "Error: " + error.getMessage());
}
}) {
/**
* Passing some request headers
* */
#Override
public Map<String, String> getHeaders() throws AuthFailureError {
HashMap<String, String> headers = new HashMap<String, String>();
headers.put("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
return headers;
}
};
jsonObjReq.setRetryPolicy(new DefaultRetryPolicy(60000,
DefaultRetryPolicy.DEFAULT_MAX_RETRIES,
DefaultRetryPolicy.DEFAULT_BACKOFF_MULT));
// Adding request to request queue
getRequestQueue(jsonObjReq);

Answer 2

Have you override getHeaders in your class that extends the Request ?
Here is how to:
#Override
public Map<String, String> getHeaders() throws AuthFailureError {
return headers != null ? headers : super.getHeaders();
}
Here is an example for seting up a Base64 (username, password) header:
#Override
private HashMap<String, String> getHeaders() {
HashMap<String, String> headers = new HashMap<>();
headers.put("Authorization", getAuthentication("usernameExample", "passwordExample"));
headers.put("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
Log.d(TAG + "");
return headers;
}
private String getAuthentication(String username, String password) {
String credentials = String.format("%s:%s", username, password);
String auth = "Basic " + Base64.encodeToString(credentials.getBytes(), Base64.DEFAULT);
return auth;
}