Spring 3.x JSON status 406 “characteristics not acceptable according to the request ”accept“ headers ()”

Question

Upon trying to get my response in JSON using Spring 3.x, I get the 406 error \"The resource identified by this request is only capable

Answer 1

Thank you for sharing you experience.I experienced the same problem and it works for me using configuration as show below:

1. Spring MVC Version : 3.2.5.RELEASE
2. Apache-tomcat-6.0.24
3. JDK1.6
4. jackson-core-asl-1.9.10.jar
5. jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.10.jar

Spring MVC Config File:

Model class : Country.java

 private Integer countryId;
 private String name;
 //public setters and getters

Controller Method:

@RequestMapping(value = "/get_country_json",method = RequestMethod.GET)
@ResponseBody
public Country getCountry()

Deployment Descriptor(web.xml)

 
    dispatcher
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    1       


    dispatcher
    *.htm

URL Requested to call controller method: /SpringCURDApp/get_country_json.htm

I hope this can help someone.