Spring-Returning json with @ResponseBody when the Accept header is */* throws HttpMediaTypeNotAcceptableException

Question

I\'m using spring 3.0.0.

I have an endpoint that returns an object that I want to be serialized to JSON. When the request comes in with Accept: application/json, it

Answer 1

I just ran into this same issue. I'm not sure if its more elegant but what I've chosen to do is to just return a string, and convert the object to Json myself. I decided to use Gson for the JSON library.

@Controller
public class NewAbstractController  {

   @RequestMapping(value = "/simple", method = RequestMethod.GET)
   public @ResponseBody String SayHello()
   {
       Foo foo = new Foo();
       foo.Name = "Chris";
       foo.age = 30;

       Gson gson = new Gson();
       return gson.toJson(foo);
   }

   public class Foo implements Serializable
   {
       public String Name;
       public Integer age;
   }

}