Build Response Entity without sending it

Question

I have the following situation: In my spring application I make a request to another web service. This web service sends me a ResponseEntity back. Now I have modified the ResponseEntity this worked perfectly, except that I cannot build a new ResponseEntity, I don't know why. Can someone tell me how to build a new ResponseEntity?

Thats my code:

 JsonNode modifiedBody = //body
 HttpHeaders modifiedHeader = //header
 HttpEntity<Object> newResponse = new HttpEntity<>(modifiedBody, modifiedHeader);

 //until this point everything works perfect now I want to create a new ResponseEntity without calling a webservice
 ResponseEntity<Object> entity = //MAKE NEW RESPONSE ENTITY

Can someone please tell me how to make a new response entity without sending it? Thanks in advance.

Edit: Disappearing value:

If I look in the debugger I find the value. But in the next step its gone.

Answer 1

As simple as that:

ResponseEntity<Object> entity = ResponseEntity
                .status(200) // status
                .headers(...)
                .body(...); // maybe some body

Please note that you cannot pass HttpEntity there, so you must set headers and body through these static methods as well.