Http Post request with content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded not working in Spring

Question

Am new to spring currently am trying to do HTTP POST request application/x-www-form-url encoded but when i keep this in my headers then spring not recognizing it an

Answer 1

The problem is that when we use application/x-www-form-urlencoded, Spring doesn't understand it as a RequestBody. So, if we want to use this we must remove the @RequestBody annotation.

Then try the following:

@RequestMapping(value = "/patientdetails", method = RequestMethod.POST,consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED_VALUE)
public @ResponseBody List getPatientDetails(
        PatientProfileDto name) {


    List list = new ArrayList();
    list = service.getPatient(name);
    return list;
}

Note that removed the annotation @RequestBody