Enable HTTP Request POST in Spring Boot

Question

I am using Spring boot, here the maven dependency

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

For the web pages I am placing the files in src/main/resources/static. There I have my html files, js libraries (angular, jquery), and css files.

I am trying to make an HTTP Request POST with Angular (I also have a GET Request that is working fine) but I get this

POST http://localhost:8080/xxxx/12/addEntry 405 (Method Not Allowed) 

In the Response Headers

HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-Application-Context: application
Allow: HEAD, GET
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:04:05 GMT

I realize that in the Response the allow doesn't have the POST method.

The method in the controller

@RequestMapping(value = "/xxxx/{uid}/addEntry", method = RequestMethod.POST)
@ResponseBody
public String createEntry(@PathVariable String uid, @RequestBody  String form) {
    System.out.println(form);
    return "index.html";
}

Answer 1

Sometimes especially during initial testing Spring's csrf - Cross Site Request Forgery - protection kicks in by default and prevents POST requests from taking place, a temporary workaround is to disable csrf. This is typically done in your Web Security Config class which extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter

@EnableWebSecurity
public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http
            .csrf().disable();
    }
}

Note: This works as on Spring boot version 2.0.0.RC1 and its best if this IS NOT be used as permanent work around

Answer 2

A different solution worked for me. I just needed to add the proper annotation to the controller itself, like this:

@RestController
public class EntriesController {
    //your code here
}