How to pass List in post method using Spring MVC?

Question

I need to pass a list of values in the request body of POST method but I get 400: Bad Request error.

Below is my sample code:

Answer 1

I had the same use case, You can change your method defination in the following way :

@RequestMapping(value = "/saveFruits", method = RequestMethod.POST, 
    consumes = "application/json")
@ResponseBody
public ResultObject saveFruits(@RequestBody Map<String,List<String>> fruits) {
    ..
}

The only problem is it accepts any key in place of "fruits" but You can easily get rid of a wrapper if it is not big functionality.

Answer 2

You are using wrong JSON. In this case you should use JSON that looks like this:

["orange", "apple"]

If you have to accept JSON in that form :

{"fruits":["apple","orange"]}

You'll have to create wrapper object:

public class FruitWrapper{

    List<String> fruits;

    //getter
    //setter
}

and then your controller method should look like this:

@RequestMapping(value = "/saveFruits", method = RequestMethod.POST, 
    consumes = "application/json")
@ResponseBody
public ResultObject saveFruits(@RequestBody FruitWrapper fruits){
...
}

Answer 3

You can pass input as ["apple","orange"]if you want to leave the method as it is.

It worked for me with a similar method signature.