Spring MVC : The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect

Question

When sending JSON requests to the server, I\'m often greeted by this message:

The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect ().

Answer 1

If the data that your consuming is from an external api and if you want to shield your controller from unnecessary elements/properties that you dont need you can use below annotation on POJO class

@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true) 

or you could set it globally

//jackson 2.0
jsonObjectMapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false);