I am writing REST APIs using okhttp library in Spring Boot. I have my OkHttpClient requesting a GET request(client) from another API(server). Both the client and server uses OkHtttp libraries, so I had used okhttp.response to return an object from Server. On the server side I was able to properly print the body inside the Response object where as on the client side I don’t see the expected object in the client’s Response object.dd

Client side:

OkHttpClient httpClient = new OkHttpClient();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
        .url("https://localhost:8081/temp/getResponse2")
        .build();
Response response = httpClient.newCall(request).execute();
final String body = response.body().string();
response.body().close();
System.out.println("The response is: " + response.toString());
System.out.println("The body in response is: " + body);
return body;

Server side(API):

@GetMapping(path = "/temp/getResponse2")
    public Response testGETAWBNotes2() throws IOException {
        final ABNotes abNotes = ABNotes.builder()
                .name("name")
                .remarks("remarks")
                .build();
//        return new ResponseEntity<>(awbNotes, HttpStatus.OK);
        Request request = new Request.Builder()
                .url("https://www.google.com")
                .build();
        okhttp3.ResponseBody responseBody = okhttp3.ResponseBody.create(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(abNotes),
                MediaType.parse("application/json; charset=utf-8"));
        Response response = new Response.Builder()
                .request(request)
                .body(responseBody)
                .protocol(Protocol.HTTP_1_1)
                .message("Success")
                .code(200)
                .build();
        System.out.println("the body is: " + response.body().string());
        response.body().close();
        return response;
    }

On the server side the body has object:
“the body is: {“name”:”name”,”remarks”:”remarks”}”
Where as on the client side I see the body object as:
“The body in response is: {“lazyCacheControl$okhttp”:null,”redirect”:false,”successful”:true}”

But when I used RepsonseEntity<Object> to return the ABNotes object from Server side, I was able to see the ABNotes object on the client side but that’s not the case when I return ohttp.Response from the server side.

An another question is: What should be the request object that we have to put in the Response Body? If our API doesn’t take any inputs from client, what request should we put in Response in this case, does placing a dummy request object works?

I was not able to find any useful server side Response Building example paired with client side code example. Any thoughts or suggestions on where am I making a mistake here?

Thanks in advance.