PUT and POST getting 405 Method Not Allowed Error for Restful Web Services

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I am trying to set up a simple Restful Web-Service which returns either JSON or XML according to the Accept header  I am using Spring  Maven and WebLogic Server  I took the example from this post http   software sawano se 2012 03 combining-json-and-xml-in-restful-web html and tried to improve on it  GET and DELETE is working for both JSON and XML But PUT and POST gives a  405 Method Not Allowed  Error  I am trying to test this with the Chrome Extension Advanced Rest Client  below is the Response headers   Status 405 Method Not Allowed Show explanation Loading time  327  Request headers  Accept  Application json Origin  chrome-extension   hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo User-Agent  Mozilla 5 0  Windows NT 6 1  WOW64  AppleWebKit 537 36  KHTML  like Gecko  Chrome 29 0 1547 76 Safari 537 36 Content-Type  application x-www-form-urlencoded  Accept-Encoding  gzip deflate sdch Accept-Language  en-US en q 0 8   Response headers  Connection  close Date  Tue  11 Feb 2014 15 17 24 GMT  Content-Length  34  Content-Type  text html  Allow  GET  DELETE  X-Powered-By  Servlet 2 5 JSP 2 1 Raw Parsed   the request body that i give is below     id  1 name   manga      My Controller Class is as shown below   import org slf4j Logger  import org slf4j LoggerFactory  import org springframework http HttpStatus  import org springframework stereotype Controller  import org springframework web bind annotation     import java util HashSet  import java util Set    Controller  RequestMapping   users   public class RESTController   Userlist obj2  boolean flag false  private Logger logger   LoggerFactory getLogger getClass       RequestMapping value      id   method   RequestMethod GET   ResponseBody public User getUser  PathVariable int id   RequestHeader  Accept   String acceptHeader        User temp   new User        if obj2  null                temp  new User 0   Null              else             Set lt User gt  set1  obj2 getUsers            for User a set1                        if id  a getId    temp a                        logger trace  Serving resource for Accept header       acceptHeader       return temp      RequestMapping value    method   RequestMethod GET   ResponseBody public Userlist getUsers        if flag  false       User new1 new User 1  Rob        User new2 new User 2  VAN        User new3 new User 3  DAM        User new4 new User 4  Helio     Set lt User gt  obj1  new HashSet lt User gt         obj1 add new1       obj1 add new2       obj1 add new3       obj1 add new4       obj2 new Userlist obj1       flag true            return obj2      RequestMapping value    id   method   RequestMethod DELETE   ResponseStatus HttpStatus OK  public void deleteUser  PathVariable int id       Set lt User gt  set1  obj2 getUsers       for User a set1                if id  a getId    set1 remove a              Userlist obj3 new Userlist set1       obj2 obj3        return obj3      RequestMapping value    id   method   RequestMethod PUT  consumes    Application json    ResponseStatus HttpStatus OK  public void updateUser  PathVariable int id   RequestBody User temp       System out println  Inside the put function            if temp  null  System out println  This is a Null for PUT            Right now I do not have anything in PUT

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Notice Allowed methods in the response  Connection  close Date  Tue  11 Feb 2014 15 17 24 GMT  Content-Length  34  Content-Type  text html  Allow  GET  DELETE  X-Powered-By  Servlet 2 5 JSP 2 1   It accepts only GET and DELETE  Hence  you need to tweak the server to enable PUT and POST as well    Allow  GET  DELETE

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I m not sure if I am correct  but from the request header that you post   Request headers Accept  Application json Origin  chrome-extension   hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo User-Agent  Mozilla 5 0  Windows NT 6 1  WOW64  AppleWebKit 537 36  KHTML  like Gecko  Chrome 29 0 1547 76 Safari 537 36 Content-Type  application x-www-form-urlencoded Accept-Encoding  gzip deflate sdch Accept-Language  en-US en q 0 8  it seems like you didn t config your request body to JSON type

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I same thing happen with me  If your code is correct and then also give 405 error  this error due to some authorization problem  go to authorization menu and change to  Inherit auth from parent

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The problem is that POST method is forbidden for Nginx server s static files requests  Here is the workaround     Pass 405 as 200 for requested address   server   listen       80  server name  localhost   location         root   html      index  index html index htm     error page  404      404 html  error page  403      403 html   error page  405      200  uri      If using proxy      If Nginx is like proxy for Apache   error page 405  200  405    location  405        root  htdocs       proxy pass http   localhost 8080       If using FastCGI   location    php       fastcgi pass 127 0 0 1 9000  fastcgi split path info       php        fastcgi param SCRIPT FILENAME  document root fastcgi script name  fastcgi param PATH INFO  fastcgi path info  fastcgi param PATH TRANSLATED  document root fastcgi path info  include  etc nginx fastcgi params      Browsers usually use GET  so you can use online tools like ApiTester to test your requests    Source   http   translate google com translate hl  amp sl ru amp tl en amp u https 3A 2F 2Fruhighload com 2F D0 9E D1 88 D0 B8 D0 B1 D0 BA D0 B0 20nginx 20405 20not 20allowed

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Well  apparently I had to change my PUT calling function updateUser  I removed the  Consumes  the  RequestMapping and also added a  ResponseBody to the function  So my method looked like this    RequestMapping value    id   method   RequestMethod PUT   ResponseStatus HttpStatus OK   ResponseBody public void updateUser  PathVariable int id   RequestBody User temp       Set lt User gt  set1  obj2 getUsers        for User a set1                if id  a getId                          set1 remove a               a setId temp getId                 a setName temp getName                 set1 add a                       Userlist obj3 new Userlist set1       obj2 obj3      And it worked    Thank you all for the response

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In my case the form  which I cannot modify  was always sending POST  While in my Web Service I tried to implement GET method  due to lack of documentation I expected that both are allowed    Thus  it was failing as  Not allowed   since there was no method with POST type on my end   Changing  GET to  POST above my WS method fixed the issue

[java] PUT and POST getting 405 Method Not Allowed Error for Restful Web Services

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