How to get access to HTTP header information in Spring MVC REST controller?

Question

I am new to web programming in general, especially in Java, so I just learned what a header and body is.

I\'m writing RESTful services using Spring MVC. I am able to

Answer 1

You can use the @RequestHeader annotation with HttpHeaders method parameter to gain access to all request headers:

@RequestMapping(value = "/restURL")
public String serveRest(@RequestBody String body, @RequestHeader HttpHeaders headers) {
    // Use headers to get the information about all the request headers
    long contentLength = headers.getContentLength();
    // ...
    StreamSource source = new StreamSource(new StringReader(body));
    YourObject obj = (YourObject) jaxb2Mashaller.unmarshal(source);
    // ...
}