Spring RequestMapping for controllers that produce and consume JSON

Question

With multiple Spring controllers that consume and produce application/json, my code is littered with long annotations like:

Answer 1

You shouldn't need to configure the consumes or produces attribute at all. Spring will automatically serve JSON based on the following factors.

• The accepts header of the request is application/json
• @ResponseBody annotated method
• Jackson library on classpath

You should also follow Wim's suggestion and define your controller with the @RestController annotation. This will save you from annotating each request method with @ResponseBody

Another benefit of this approach would be if a client wants XML instead of JSON, they would get it. They would just need to specify xml in the accepts header.