RESTful Service, accept application/x-www-form-urlencoded and application/json

[ErickS]

I'm fairly new to Spring and I am trying to work out a flexible way to do restful services.

To accept true JSON input, I use the @RequestBody tag. But doing so causes form urlencoded data to no longer be accepted.

Is there a standard way to allow both? Or do I need to create multiple create & update methods, using mappings like this:
@RequestMapping(value={"/test"}, headers = "content-type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
@RequestMapping(value={"/test"}, headers = "content-type=application/json")

I'm wondering if there is perhaps something I am overlooking here. I understand content negotiation on the reply side (using ContentNegotiatingViewResolver). But is there something similar for the input side?


If not, what is the standard way to accept RESTful input? As a JSON object or as form urlencoded?

Thanks for any help.

[Rossen Stoyanchev]

It's not clear what the exact problem you're running into is but in Spring 3.1 you can use the consumes/produces conditions. Check the reference documentation.