Spring: Returning empty HTTP Responses with ResponseEntity doesn't work

Question

We are implementing a REST API with Spring (4.1.1.). For certain HTTP requests, we would like to return a head with no body as a response. However, using ResponseEntit

Answer 1

According Spring 4 MVC ResponseEntity.BodyBuilder and ResponseEntity Enhancements Example it could be written as:

....
   return ResponseEntity.ok().build();
....
   return ResponseEntity.noContent().build();

UPDATE:

If returned value is Optional there are convinient method, returned ok() or notFound():

return ResponseEntity.of(optional)