HTTP Status 415 - request entity is in a format not supported

Question

I am working on java restful web service. I got it working for GET request, but POST request does not work. My Controller class is RestController. I have done these

Answer 1

Spring provides out-of-box many default HttpMessageConverters, which will be used for conversion, depending on presence of certain library in project classpath.

For example, if the Content-Type in request Header was one of application/json or application/xml , that means the POST body contains json or XML[Popular formats], and if Jackson library is found in your classpath, Spring will delegate the conversion to MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter [for json] or MappingJackson2XmlHttpMessageConverter [for xml].

To declare a dependency to Jackson library (jackson-databind) include following dependency in your pom.xml

    com.fasterxml.jackson.core
    jackson-databind
    ${jackson.version}