I am trying to use @responseBody in the controller to return a object am i getting exception. I have jackson jar in the application still it says the following error ClassNotFoundException could not intiatiate
HTTP Status 500 -
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type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
root cause
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter#0': Cannot create inner bean '(inner bean)' of type [org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter] while setting bean property 'messageConverters' with key [6]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name '(inner bean)#8': Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper
root cause
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name '(inner bean)#8': Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper
This is my code—->
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.validation.BindingResult;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.SessionAttributes;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import com.lol.laks.sample.beans.*;
@Controller
@SessionAttributes
public class ContactsController {
@RequestMapping(value = "/addContact", method = RequestMethod.POST, produces="application/json")
public @ResponseBody Contacts addContact(@ModelAttribute("contact") Contacts contact,BindingResult result) {
System.out.println("First Name:" + contact.getFirstname() +
"Last Name:" + contact.getLastname());
return contact;
}
@RequestMapping("/")
public ModelAndView showContacts() {
return new ModelAndView("contacts", "command", new Contacts());
}
}
This is the jsp–>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd%27%3E)
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form"%>
<body>
<form:form method="post" action="addContact">
<table>
<tr>
<td><form:label path="firstname">First Name</form:label></td>
<td><form:input path="firstname" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><form:label path="lastname">Last Name</form:label></td>
<td><form:input path="lastname" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><form:label path="lastname">Email</form:label></td>
<td><form:input path="email" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><form:label path="telephone">Telephone</form:label></td>
<td><form:input path="telephone" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<input type="submit" value="Add Contact"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form:form>
</body>
</html>
This is the servlet.xml—>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd"> (http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd%27%3E)
<context:component-scan base-package="com.tcs.laks.sample" />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver">
<property name="mediaTypes">
<map>
<entry key="html" value="text/html"/>
<entry key="json" value="application/json"/>
</map>
</property>
<property name="viewResolvers">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<!-- <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
--> <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
</list>
</property>
<property name="defaultViews">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJacksonJsonView">
<property name="prefixJson" value="true"/>
</bean>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
This is the beans
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
@Component
public class Contacts {
private String firstname;
private String lastname;
private String email;
private String telephone;
public String getFirstname() {
return firstname;
}
public void setFirstname(String firstname) {
this.firstname = firstname;
}
public String getLastname() {
return lastname;
}
public void setLastname(String lastname) {
this.lastname = lastname;
}
public String getEmail() {
return email;
}
public void setEmail(String email) {
this.email = email;
}
public String getTelephone() {
return telephone;
}
public void setTelephone(String telephone) {
this.telephone = telephone;
}
}
Please Tell me why it is not able to instantiate the class though the proper jars are included when Spring 3 automatically converts the object to json?
I found the answer Myself the main problem was with the servlet.xml file adding
did the work.