JSON HttpMediaTypeNotSupportedException

I'm getting an exception when sending JSON over to a Spring Annotated Controller. I believe the problem is related to converting a JSON into a RequestBody. I am unable to switch to full MVC Annotations - I have to use SimpleUrlHandlerMapping for now

Code:

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2010-02-15 16:59:53,437 ERROR [ingExceptionResolver][TP-Processor2      ] Error thrown while executing request
org.springframework.web.HttpMediaTypeNotSupportedException: Content type 'application/json;charset=UTF-8' not supported
        at org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.resolveRequestBody(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:556)
        at org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.resolveHandlerArguments(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:283)
        at org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.invokeHandlerMethod(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:163)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:414)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.handle(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:402)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:771)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:563)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:647)

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This is the form + javascript modified from mvc-ajax sample

http://blog.springsource.com/2010/01...in-spring-3-0/

Code:

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        <form:form id="createUser" modelAttribute="user" method="post">
                  <fieldset>               
                        <legend>User Fields</legend>
                        <p>
                                <form:label        id="nameLabel" for="name" path="username" cssErrorClass="error">Name</form:label><br/>
                                <form:input path="username" /><form:errors path="name" />
                                <form:label id="idLabel" for="id" path="id" cssErrorClass="error">Id</form:label><br/>
                                <form:input path="id" /><form:errors path="id" />
                        </p>
                        <p>       
                                <input id="create" type="submit" value="Create" />
                        </p>
                </fieldset>
        </form:form>
        <script type="text/javascript">       
                $(document).ready(function() {
                        $("#createUser").submit(function() {
                                var user = $(this).serializeObject();
                                $.postJSON("user", user, function(data) {
                                        $("#id").val(data.id);
                                        alert("got response");
                                });
                                return false;                               
                        });
                });
        </script>

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This is a snippet of the server side code:

Code:

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@Controller(value="accountsController")
public class AccountController {
 ....
    @RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.POST)
    public @ResponseBody Map<String, ? extends Object> create(@RequestBody User user, HttpServletResponse response) {
        return Collections.singletonMap("id", user.getId());
    }
}

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I had a problem using <mvc:annotation-driven/> on it's own, I read somewhere that I need to declare SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter as well.

Code:

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    <bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
        <property name="mappings">
            <props>
                ....
                <prop key="/accounts/**/*">accountsController</prop>
                ....
            </props>
        </property>
        <property name="alwaysUseFullPath" value="true"/>
    </bean>

    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping" />
    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter" />
    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
            <property name="messageConverters">
              <util:list id="beanList">
                <bean id="stringHttpMessageConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter"/>
                <bean id="formHttpMessageConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.FormHttpMessageConverter"/>
                <bean id="byteArrayMessageConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter"/>
                <bean id="bufferedImageHttpMessageConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.BufferedImageHttpMessageConverter"/>
                <bean id="jacksonMessageConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter"/>
              </util:list>
            </property>
        </bean>

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Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

The problem I believe was that the server side (User) Object was not serializable (legacy object with lots more properties than necessary - one or more of which must be not serializable). I just switched an simple object and json conversion worked fine.

For anyone reading this thread. Test your objects to make sure they are serializable and deserializable. In the case of Jackson, the MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter does not throw an exception or log anything. It simply uses the method canRead(Class<?>, MediaType) to check if the data can be deserialized into an object. If it cannot, it just moves on....

To expand on this even further, you cannot have any configuration errors with your Jackson annotations. In my case, I had multiple @JsonBackReference in a domain object and it was throwing an error (they must have unique names) but trapping it without logging:

org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializerProv ider

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    public boolean hasValueDeserializerFor(DeserializationConfig config, JavaType type)
    {
        /* Note: mostly copied from findValueDeserializer, except for
        * handling of unknown types
        */
        JsonDeserializer<Object> deser = _findCachedDeserializer(type);
        if (deser == null) {
            try {
                deser = _createAndCacheValueDeserializer(config, type, null);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return (deser != null);
    }

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Originally Posted by mcantrell

To expand on this even further, you cannot have any configuration errors with your Jackson annotations. In my case, I had multiple @JsonBackReference in a domain object and it was throwing an error (they must have unique names) but trapping it without logging:

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Hi mcantrell, I also have the problem with multiple @JsonBackReference in a domain object. For example, my CdrDoseFrequency will have relationship Many-To-One to CdrInfusionDrug and CdrNormalDrug, so my code is follow:

Code:

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@JsonBackReference("CdrInfusionDrug")
public CdrInfusionDrug getCdrInfusionDrug() {}

@JsonBackReference("CdrNormalDrug")
public CdrNormalDrug getCdrNormalDrug() {}

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Then when I run spring restful, I have the error: 415: Unsupported Media Type. Could you please give me advice for this case ?