@RequestBody or @ModelAttribute with Spring+REST web services

Question

I am creating a Restful website and Web services for iPhone and android apps with Spring 3.1. In my application, i am using Spring Message Convertors (

Answer 1

Sorry, but I don't believe there is a way, because @ModelAttribute is bound from form post parameters and @RequestBody passes the body straight to the Json converter. You could replace the spring form tag with a simple json post, but that is probably less convenient than having two @RequestMapping methods.

Answer 2

Its @RequestBody. I feel its better to specify the mime type that you are expecting and producing as output using @RequestMapping as,

  @RequestMapping(value="/authenticate",produces="application/json",   
consumes="application/json",method=RequestMethod.POST)

Then register appropriate message converters with AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter

This message converter is responsible for Marshalling & unmarshalling of your request & response entity based on produces & consumes attributes.

<bean
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter" >
     <property name="order" value="1" />
         <property name="messageConverters">
         <list>
            <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter" >

                 <property name="supportedMediaTypes" value="application/json"/>
            </bean>
            <bean class = "org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter">
                <property name="supportedMediaTypes" value = "text/plain;charset=UTF-8" />
            </bean>
         </list>
    </property>
</bean>