Spring REST service: retrieving JSON from Request

Question

I am building a REST service on Spring 3.1. I am using @EnableWebMVC annotation for that. Since my service will only be accepting JSON requests, I would also like to dump th

Answer 1

Hey can you try with this:

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST, consumes="application/json", produces="application/json", value = "/employee")
@ResponseBody
public String updateEntity(@RequestBody Employee emp) {
    // Do some DB Stuff. Anyway, the control flow does not reach this place.
    return "Employee " + emp.getName() + " updated successfully!";
}

Here: it you proving URI with the '/' it allows all the operations to perform. such as get post update and delete with same URI value.