Spring's @RequestBody providing empty string on POST

Question

I have an application with Spring 3.0.5.RELEASE trying to get the full content of a post using @RequestBody. The method is called, but the string passed is always empty. I h

Answer 1

Another reason that your XML may not be getting marshalled into your JAXB object is related to the namespaces in the XML.

Versions of java after 1.8.101 are more strict about parsing namespaced XML. See JAXB doesn't unmarshall after updating java from 1.8.0_77 to 1.8.0_121

In my case I was seeing a request body with all nulls and no exception being thrown to indicate that the XML parsing had failed.