How to access a huge JSON coming (from a spring RESTful Service) in a spring MVC app using RestTemplate

Question

My Spring RESTful web service is returning a JSON form of- [{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2","key3":"value3"},{"key4":"value4","key5":"value5","key6":"value6"}] Now when my spring MVC app, try to access it, to show in a JSP then Exception occurs saying-no suitable HttpMessageConverter found Please help me where I going wrong.Here is my code-

Inside @Controller class of my spring MVC app calling the RESTful service

//**com.songs.controllers.FrontSongController.java**
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author Rohit Tiwari
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@RequestMapping(value="/alls",method=RequestMethod.POST)
public String getAllSongs(ModelMap md)
{ 
    HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
    headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
    headers.setAccept(Arrays.asList(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
    HttpEntity<String> entity = new HttpEntity<String>(headers);
    String url="http://localhost:7001/SongAppWS/songappWS/allsongsWS";
    RestTemplate rt=new RestTemplate();

    //SongResource.class is for representation on incoming JSON see below for its code
    //This is the line no 48 that you will see in below browser logs

    ResponseEntity<SongResource> listofallsongs=rt.exchange(url,HttpMethod.GET,entity,  SongResource.class);
md.addAttribute("listname", "Songs available in the repository:");
System.out.println("Response Entity object= "+listofallsongs);
    System.out.println("Response Entity body= "+listofallsongs.getBody().toString());
return "Sucess";    
}

Inside config-servlet.xml of my spring MVC app calling the RESTful service

<context:component-scan base-package="com.songs.controllers" />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:annotation-config/> 
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping"></bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter"></bean>
<bean  class="org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate">
    <property name="messageConverters">
        <list>
            <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter"/>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>

Inside SongResource.java of my spring MVC app, which I am trying to use for converting the coming JSON to my SongResource.class object, that my spring MVC app can use in a jsp

//**com.songs.service.resource.SongResource.java**

public class SongResource 
{
    private String name;
    private String film;
    private String singer;
    public SongResource(String name,String film,String singer)
    {
    this.name=name;
    this.film=film;
    this.singer=singer; 
    }
    //setter & getters of all above
}

On calling the spring REST service from my spring MVC app the browser is saying as below-

Error 500--Internal Server Error
org.springframework.web.client.RestClientException: Could not extract response: no suitable     HttpMessageConverter found for response type [com.songs.service.resource.SongResource] and content type  [application/json]
at   org.springframework.web.client.HttpMessageConverterExtractor.extractData(HttpMessageConverterExtractor.java  :77)
    at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate$ResponseEntityResponseExtractor.extractData(RestTemplate.java:619)
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate$ResponseEntityResponseExtractor.extractData(RestTemplate.java:1)
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.doExecute(RestTemplate.java:446)
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.execute(RestTemplate.java:401)
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.exchange(RestTemplate.java:377)
at com.songs.controllers.FrontSongController.getAllSongs(FrontSongController.java:48)

//and so on

Answer 1

Try this, hope it will help you

@RequestMapping(value="/alls",method=RequestMethod.POST)
public String getAllSongs(ModelMap md)
{  
String url="http://localhost:7001/SongAppWS/songappWS/allsongsWS";
RestTemplate rt=new RestTemplate();
SongResource[] songRs = template.getForObject(url, SongResource[].class);

List<SongResource> songs = Arrays.asList(songRs);

md.addAttribute("listname", "Songs available in the repository:");
md.addAttribute("listValues", songs);  
return "Sucess";    
}