How to enable HTTP response caching in Spring Boot

Question

I have implemented a REST server using Spring Boot 1.0.2. I\'m having trouble preventing Spring from setting HTTP headers that disable HTTP caching.

My controller is

Answer 1

Overriding of default caching behavior for a particular method can be done in the below way:

@Controller
public class MyRestController {
    @RequestMapping(value = "/someUrl", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public @ResponseBody ResponseEntity myMethod(
            HttpServletResponse httpResponse) throws SQLException {
        return new ResponseEntity.ok().cacheControl(CacheControl.maxAge(100, TimeUnit.SECONDS)).body(T)
    }
}