Spring: How to get parameters from POST body?

Question

Web-service using spring in which I have to get the params from the body of my post request? The content of the body is like:-

source=”mysource”

&json=
{
    "items": [
        {
            "username": "test1",
            "allowed": true
        },
        {
            "username": "test2",
            "allowed": false
        }
    ]
}

And the web-service method looks like:-

@RequestMapping(value = "/saveData", headers="Content-Type=application/json", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    @ResponseBody
    public ResponseEntity<Boolean> saveData(@RequestBody String a) throws MyException {
        return new ResponseEntity<Boolean>(uiRequestProcessor.saveData(a),HttpStatus.OK);

    }

Please let me know how do I get the params from the body? I can get the whole body in my string but I don't think that would be a valid approach. Please let me know how do I proceed further.

Answer 1

You can get param from request.

@ResponseBody
public ResponseEntity<Boolean> saveData(HttpServletRequest request,
            HttpServletResponse response, Model model){
   String jsonString = request.getParameter("json");
}

Answer 2

You can get entire post body into a POJO. Following is something similar

@RequestMapping(
    value = { "/api/pojo/edit" }, 
    method = RequestMethod.POST, 
    produces = "application/json", 
    consumes = ["application/json"])
@ResponseBody
public Boolean editWinner( @RequestBody Pojo pojo) { 

Where each field in Pojo (Including getter/setters) should match the Json request object that the controller receives..

Answer 3

You can bind the json to a POJO using MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter . Thus your controller signature can read :-

  public ResponseEntity<Boolean> saveData(@RequestBody RequestDTO req) 

Where RequestDTO needs to be a bean appropriately annotated to work with jackson serializing/deserializing. Your *-servlet.xml file should have the Jackson message converter registered in RequestMappingHandler as follows :-

  <list >
    <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter"/>

  </list>
</property>
</bean>

Answer 4

You can try using @RequestBodyParam

@RequestMapping(value = "/saveData", headers="Content-Type=application/json", method = RequestMethod.POST)
@ResponseBody
public ResponseEntity<Boolean> saveData(@RequestBodyParam String source,@RequestBodyParam JsonDto json) throws MyException {
    ...
}

https://github.com/LambdaExpression/RequestBodyParam