Ajax json Jackson

[stunaz]

Hi, am trying to get a List of an object as a json view from my controller, but somehow its not working at all : here is my controller :

    @RequestMapping(value = "ajaxLoad", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public @ResponseBody List<Mail> list(@RequestParam(value = "type", required = true) String type){
        List<Mail> mails = mailService.getUserMails((Long) WebHelper.getPrincipal().getUser().getId(),type);
        
        return mails;
    } 

its supposed to return a list of mails as a json view.
but i got errors : l it s trying to redired to the view ajaxLoad.jsp which doesnt exists.

i have added the jackson json library in my app.
In the Keith Donald tutorials, he said that "Underneath the covers, Spring MVC delegates to a HttpMessageConverter to perform the serialization. In this case, Spring MVC invokes a MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter built on the Jackson JSON processor. This implementation is enabled automatically when you use the mvc:annotation-driven configuration element with Jackson present in your classpath."
What if am not using the mvc:annotation, how to implement it manually?

thanks for any adivse

[guznik]

Hi,

You can use ContentNegotiatingViewResolver as described here: http://static.springsource.org/sprin...epresentations

But I highly recommend switching to <mvc:annotation-driven/> - it reduces the amount of configuration dramatically and you can still override the behavior explicitly if you need to.