How to process a multipart request consisting of a file and a JSON object in Spring restful service?

Question

I have the following resource (implemented using Spring 4.05.RELEASE) which accepts a file and a JSON object:

(P.S. activityTemplate is a serializable entity class)<

Answer 1

Couldn't you change your

@RequestMapping(value="/create", method=RequestMethod.POST)

to

@RequestMapping(value="/create",
                method=RequestMethod.POST, consumes ={"multipart/form-data"})