Can Spring MVC have request parameters for an HTTP PUT method, or must I use post? Which should I use to be RESTful?

Question

I have a controller action I think should be an HTTP PUT, but Spring is complaining when I try and use @RequestParam in the controller action. Is request parameters not allo

Answer 1

Spring controllers support GET/HEAD/POST/PUT/DELETE/OPTIONS/TRACE, but since your browser may not be able to send these request methods, it wont work for you.

The workaround is to use the "org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter" provided by Spring. It requires you to pass a hidden parameter for the request method. The default parameter supported by this filter is "_method".

Check the javadoc of the filter for more info.