How can I prevent Spring MVC from doing a redirect?

Question

I want to handle an AJAX request that updates an entity. I don\'t really need it to return anything. The problem is that Spring MVC insists on sending a redirect to the same

Answer 1

So,

I took your code and created an application with that, tried sending a PUT request using browser plugin POSTMAN and got a response but no redirection. See if this works. I am attaching the complete classes, you can copy and directly use it in ur application.

Here are the network headers:

Remote Address:::1:8080
Request URL:http://localhost:8080/test/api/testrun/hello
Request Method:PUT
Status Code:200 OK

**Request Headers**
Accept:*/*
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6,pl;q=0.4
Authorization:Basic ZWFzeWwtbWFpbi1pbnQ6cHJnc3VzZXI=
Cache-Control:no-cache
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:0
Content-Type:application/json
Host:localhost:8080
Origin:chrome-extension://fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.114 Safari/537.36

**Response Headers**
Cache-Control:private
Content-Length:5
Content-Type:text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date:Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:58:50 GMT
Expires:Thu, 01 Jan 1970 05:30:00 IST
Server:Apache-Coyote/1.1
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And here is the code: Configuration to boot up spring

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@Profile("production")
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "com", excludeFilters = { @ComponentScan.Filter(Configuration.class) })
public class WebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurationSupport {

    @Override
    protected void configureContentNegotiation(
            ContentNegotiationConfigurer configurer) {
        configurer.favorPathExtension(false).favorParameter(true)
                .parameterName("mediaType").ignoreAcceptHeader(true)
                .useJaf(false).defaultContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
                .mediaType("xml", MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
                .mediaType("json", MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
    }

    @Bean(name = "viewResolver")
    public InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver() throws Exception {
        InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();

        viewResolver.setPrefix("/jsp/");
        viewResolver.setSuffix(".jsp");

        return viewResolver;
    }
}

Controller

@Controller
public class TestController {

    @RequestMapping(value = "/api/testrun/{testrunId}", method = RequestMethod.PUT, consumes = "application/json")
    @ResponseBody
    public String updateOverview(@PathVariable("testrunId") final String testrunId) {
        System.out.println(testrunId);

        return "hello";
    }
}

web.xml

test

    
      contextClass
      
         org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
      
    
    
      contextConfigLocation
      com.WebConfig
    
    
        spring.profiles.active
        production
    
    
      org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
    

    
      ui
      
         org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
      
      
         contextClass
         
            org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
         
      
      1
    
    
      ui
      /