Spring MVC 3 Return Content-Type: text/plain

Question

I want to display simple text on a page and as such I want to return the Content-Type as text/plain.

Using the code below, I see plain text on the page, however the return Content-Type is still text/html.

How can I fix this?

NOTE: I'm using Tiles with Spring MVC. The returned "m.health" points to a tiles def that maps to a health.jsp which only contains the 1 line below.

UPDATE NOTE: I have no control over the Content-Type or Accept values in the HTTP Header request. I want my response to return text/plain no matter what kind of request comes in.

Controller:

@RequestMapping(value = "/m/health", method = RequestMethod.GET, headers = "Accept=*") public String runHealthCheck(HttpServletResponse response, HttpServletRequest request, Model model) throws Exception {     model = executeCheck(request, response, TEMPLATE, false, model);     model.addAttribute("accept", "text/plain");     response.setContentType("text/plain");     response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");     return "m.health"; } 

JSP:

${status}

Answer 1

It should work if you annotate your method additionally with @ResponseBody:

@RequestMapping(value = "/",                 method = RequestMethod.GET) @ResponseBody public String plaintext(HttpServletResponse response) {     response.setContentType("text/plain");     response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");     return "TEXT"; }