Trying to use Spring Boot REST to Read JSON String from POST

Question

Am using the latest version of Spring Boot to read in a sample JSON via Restful Web Service...

Here\'s my pom.xml:

Answer 1

The issue appears with parsing the JSON from request body, tipical for an invalid JSON. If you're using curl on windows, try escaping the json like -d "{"name":"value"}" or even -d "{"""name""":"value"""}"

On the other hand you can ommit the content-type header in which case whetewer is sent will be converted to your String argument