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 easiest thing to do is to set the content type of your ajax request to "application/json; charset=utf-8" and then let your API method consume JSON. Like this:

var basicInfo = JSON.stringify({
    firstName: playerProfile.firstName(),
    lastName: playerProfile.lastName(),
    gender: playerProfile.gender(),
    address: playerProfile.address(),
    country: playerProfile.country(),
    bio: playerProfile.bio()
});

$.ajax({
    url: "http://localhost:8080/social/profile/update",
    type: 'POST',
    dataType: 'json',
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    data: basicInfo,
    success: function(data) {
        // ...
    }
});


@RequestMapping(
    value = "/profile/update",
    method = RequestMethod.POST,
    produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE,
    consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
public ResponseEntity UpdateUserProfile(
    @RequestBody User usersNewDetails,
    HttpServletRequest request,
    HttpServletResponse response
) {
    // ...
}

I guess the problem is that Spring Boot has issues submitting form data which is not JSON via ajax request.

Note: the default content type for ajax is "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".