Content negotiation in Spring MVC

Question

I am writing a RESTful web application with Spring 3, and part of my application needs to process the data according to the requested media type.

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Answer 1

The @RequestMapping annotation has an optional headers attribute that allows you to narrow the mapping to requests with specific headers, e.g. to match XML:

@RequestMapping(value = "/something", headers = "content-type=application/xml")

You can also specify multiple variants:

@RequestMapping(value = "/something", headers = [{"content-type=application/xml","content-type=text/xml"}])

It's a little bit low level, but does the job.