[java] JSON post to Spring Controller

Hi I am starting with Web Services in Spring, so I am trying to develop small application in Spring + JSON + Hibernate. I have some problem with HTTP-POST. I created a method:

@RequestMapping(value="/workers/addNewWorker", method = RequestMethod.POST, produces = "application/json", consumes = "application/json")
@ResponseBody
public String addNewWorker(@RequestBody Test test) throws Exception {
    String name = test.name;
    return name;
}

And my model Test looks like:

public class Test implements Serializable {

private static final long serialVersionUID = -1764970284520387975L;
public String name;

public Test() {
}
}

By POSTMAN I am sending simply JSON {"name":"testName"} and I always get error;

The server refused this request because the request entity is in a format not supported by the requested resource for the requested method.

I imported Jackson library. My GET methods works fine. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I am grateful for any suggestions.

Try to using application/* instead. And use JSON.maybeJson() to check the data structure in the controller.

You need to include the getters and setters for all the fields that have been defined in the model Test class --

public class Test implements Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -1764970284520387975L;

    public String name;

    public Test() {

    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

}

Do the following thing if you want to use json as a http request and response. So we need to make changes in [context].xml

<!-- Configure to plugin JSON as request and response in method handler -->
<beans:bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter">
    <beans:property name="messageConverters">
        <beans:list>
            <beans:ref bean="jsonMessageConverter"/>
        </beans:list>
    </beans:property>
</beans:bean>
<!-- Configure bean to convert JSON to POJO and vice versa -->
<beans:bean id="jsonMessageConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter">
</beans:bean>   

MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter to the RequestMappingHandlerAdapter messageConverters so that Jackson API kicks in and converts JSON to Java Beans and vice versa. By having this configuration, we will be using JSON in request body and we will receive JSON data in the response.

I am also providing small code snippet for controller part:

    @RequestMapping(value = EmpRestURIConstants.DUMMY_EMP, method = RequestMethod.GET)

    public @ResponseBody Employee getDummyEmployee() {
    logger.info("Start getDummyEmployee");
    Employee emp = new Employee();
    emp.setId(9999);
    emp.setName("Dummy");
    emp.setCreatedDate(new Date());
    empData.put(9999, emp);
    return emp;
}

So in above code emp object will directly convert into json as a response. same will happen for post also.

see here

The consumable media types of the mapped request, narrowing the primary mapping.

the producer is used to narrow the primary mapping, you send request should specify the exact header to match it.