Comments on: Spring 3.0: REST services with Spring MVC

By: soudmaijer

soudmaijer — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:21:14 +0000

Good to hear my article helped you getting started!

Regards, Stephan

By: Renata Roginsky

Renata Roginsky — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:37:19 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you. And thank you again. I spent the whole day today trying to get it to work, and I’ve no idea how much longer I would be banging my head on the wall if
I didn’t find your article.

By: soudmaijer

soudmaijer — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:30:39 +0000

Looks like old files that are still referenced in your workspace. Are you using Eclipse? Try cleaning the project.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:58:45 +0000

Can you please send me the War file without the jars?

I have setup it but getting error like below for my url
description The requested resource (/ProjTmplWar/ocn/1/oppoId/2) is not available.

By: soudmaijer

soudmaijer — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:13:50 +0000

Hi Krishna,

the article you are refering to uses JAX-RS (Jersey) and not Spring MVC based RESTful services.

By: Krishna

Krishna — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:07:07 +0000

Good basic article on spring rest services. Spring REST services

By: Tin

Tin — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:06:23 +0000

Thanks for your reply, That’s really helpful for me to learn more. I also got the answer from spring forum and both of you make me clear about how to make REST and RESTFul in spring 3.

By: soudmaijer

soudmaijer — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:29:59 +0000

Hi Tin,

suffixing the response return type is typically not the way to go with RESTful services. RESTful services typically return a specific format based on the Content Negotiation of the Client and the Server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_negotiation). You define what response type you expect by setting the HTTP Accept header to application/xml or application/json. Spring uses a ContentNegotiatingViewResolver for this.

Also have a look at this article: http://blog.springsource.com/2009/03/08/rest-in-spring-3-mvc/

Summary

Basically, your service has 1 URL: http://localhost:8080/spring-3.0-rest/product/1 and based on the Accept header it returns either XML or JSON. You do not need 2 methods in your controller, just two Marshallers on for XML and one for JSON. This can be done based on JAXB annotations and Jackson.

If you still experience problems, let me know!

By: Tin

Tin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:27:21 +0000

Nice article, Question..?

If I want the method “getProductById” to return in the different format such as XML or JSON. For example:

I will call the method like below:

Returning in XML
http://localhost:8080/spring-3.0-rest/product/1.xml

Returning in JSON
http://localhost:8080/spring-3.0-rest/product/1.json

Could you please guide how to do in spring 3 and thanks for sharing.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:15:19 +0000

Nice & useful article