The problem is that when we use application/x-www-form-urlencoded, Spring doesn't understand it as a RequestBody. So, if we want to use this we must remove the @RequestBody annotation.
Then try the following:
@RequestMapping(value = "/{email}/authenticate", method = RequestMethod.POST,
consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED_VALUE,
produces = {MediaType.APPLICATION_ATOM_XML_VALUE, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE})
public @ResponseBody Representation authenticate(@PathVariable("email") String anEmailAddress, MultiValueMap paramMap) throws Exception {
if(paramMap == null && paramMap.get("password") == null) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Password not provided");
}
return null;
}
Note that removed the annotation @RequestBody
answer: Http Post request with content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded not working in Spring