Spring JSON request body not mapped to Java POJO

Question

I\'m using Spring to implement a RESTful web service. One of the endpoints takes in a JSON string as request body and I wish to map it to a POJO. However, it seems right now

Answer 1

The formatting on this is terrible, but this should work for jackson configuration.

ALso, as mentioned in a comment, your JSON is wrong for your object.

{"firstname":"xyz",‌​"lastname":"XYZ"}

does appear to be the correct JSON for your object.