Handling JSON and form data request with Spring MVC
I'm working on simple Spring-MVC application and I love new Spring REST features. I'd like to use the same method to process regular form and JSON data. It seems to be a little tricky, however. For example, method
public @ResponseBody String process(@RequestBody Bean bean);
will work for JSON request (Content-type: application/json), and
public @ResponseBody String process(Bean bean);
will match request with Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
These methods are obviously will have almost the same content, so I'd prefer to avoid such duplication. With Jersey it's possible with @Consumes annotations, but I can't figure out how to do it with Spring.
First, the above declaration won't compile, because you are having duplicate signature.
Btw, @Consumes wouldn't help, I think, because it only designates what content type the method can handle.
In spring you can specify the content-type with
@RequestMapping(headers="Content-Type=application/json")