Error 415 Unsupported Media Type: POST not reaching REST if JSON, but it does if XML

Question

I am actually new to REST WS but really I don\'t get this 415 Unsupported Media Type.

I am testing my REST with Poster on Firefox and the GET

Answer 1

I had the same problem:

curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT -d '{"name":"json","surname":"gson","married":true,"age":32,"salary":123,"hasCar":true,"childs":["serkan","volkan","aybars"]}' XXXXXX/ponyo/UserModel/json

* About to connect() to localhost port 8081 (#0)
*   Trying ::1...
* Connection refused
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
* connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8081 (#0)
> PUT /ponyo/UserModel/json HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.28.1
> Host: localhost:8081
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: application/json
> Content-Length: 121
> 
* upload completely sent off: 121 out of 121 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 415 Unsupported Media Type
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
< Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:55:43 GMT
< Content-Length: 0
< 
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
* Closing connection #0

I resolved it by adding the dependency to pom.xml as follows. Please try it.

    
        com.owlike
        genson
        0.98