Question

Client code:

$.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "../web/zittles",
        data: jsonformatdata,
        contentType: "application/json",
        dataType: "json",
    success: function(data)
        {
        alert("data from server : "+data);
        },
        error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown)
        {
            alert("jqXHR.status = "+jqXHR.status); //getting status code 400 here
        }        
});

Output json data:

{
        "id": 1,
        "No": "1234",
        "Desc": "Testing"
}

Java class:

public class Fizzle implements Serializable
{
    private String id;
    private String No;
    private String Desc;
    // getters and setters 
}

Spring 3 Controller:

@RequestMapping(value = '/zittles', method = RequestMethod.POST, headers ="Content-Type=application/json")
    public @ResponseBody void doSomeThing (@RequestBody Fizzle fizzle) {

        //do something here
}

app-servlet.xml has

<mvc:annotation-driven/>

/lib folder of tomcat has

jackson-core-lgpl-1.9.10.jar
jackson-mapper-lgpl-1.9.10.jar

Getting error with status code 400 –

"The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect"

When I change the Controller code as shown below, it takes the json data as string.

public @ResponseBody void doSomeThing (@RequestBody String fizzle) {}

Ideally Jackson should automatically map the json data to Fizzle object.

What is it that I am missing here. Is there anything else that has to be done to configure the Jackson parser correctly?

Help please.

Answer 1

I am answering my own question since it worked for me. Thanks “vacuum” for giving me the direction. I am using List since I am receving an array of json data.

@JsonTypeName
@RequestMapping(value = '/zittles', method = RequestMethod.POST, headers ="Content-Type=application/json")     
public @ResponseBody void doSomeThing (@RequestBody String fizzles) 
{          
     //do something here
     ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
     ArrayList list = mapper.readValue(new StringReader(fizzles), ArrayList.class);
     List<Fizzle> fizzles1 = mapper.convertValue(list, new TypeReference<List<Fizzle>>() {});
}