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Asked: 2026-06-10T02:36:42+00:00

I want to serve different content types based on the Accept header I receive

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I want to serve different content types based on the Accept header I receive at a RESTful endpoint.

application/myapp-v1.0+json
application/myapp-v1.0+xml

Is there any way to do this with @ResponseBody? It seems like a convenient shortcut by allowing me to just return an object and let the HttpMessageConverter handle invoking Jackson but I just cannot get it working. 406 responses any time I wire up more than one MimeType.

For this iteration I’ve ended up querying the request header myself and returning the appropriate view handler myself, but I wouldn’t mind revisiting this in future.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you are working with Spring 3.1, you can do this using @RequestMapping. New to 3.1 for the RequestMapping annotation are these members:

    1. consumes() — Allows you to filter by the Content-type request header.
    2. produces() — Allows you to filter by the Accept request header.

    There is also the ability to apply some simple expressions to make it more robust.

    @RequestMapping(consumes = {"application/json", "application/xml"})

@RequestMapping(consumes = {"!text/plain"})
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