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

Personally, to deal with empty responses, I use in my Integration Tests the MockMvcResponse object like this :

MockMvcResponse response = RestAssuredMockMvc.given()
                .webAppContextSetup(webApplicationContext)
                .when()
                .get("/v1/ticket");

    assertThat(response.mockHttpServletResponse().getStatus()).isEqualTo(HttpStatus.NO_CONTENT.value());

and in my controller I return empty response in a specific case like this :

return ResponseEntity.noContent().build();