Spring 4.1.1 RELEASE and @ResponseBody return HTTP 406

Question

I am using @ResponseBody to return Json object in Spring MVC. It works as expected on release 4.0.7 and 3.2.11, but it returns HTTP status 406 when I try to use the latest S

Answer 1

I was struggling with similar issue migrating from 3.2 to spring 4.2. Was getting

org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No converter found for return value of type:

posting it here so people can find it by exception name :) It took me half a day to find this article. Thanks @Vito and @Aias

Combination of both previous answers work as well, if you do not want register custom contentNegotiationManager you can do following:

remove all jackson dependencies from

pom.xml

and use latest one

    com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs
    jackson-jaxrs-base
    2.6.1

servlet.xml