error in spring 3 rest webservice 406 (Not Acceptable) - jackson

Question

My code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="JavaScript/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#login").click(function() {
var name1 = $("#eid").val();
var pass1 = $("#p").val();
var datacontent = {
"empName": name1,
"empPassword": pass1
};
alert(JSON.stringify(datacontent));
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
accept: "application/json",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: "json",
url: "/rest_test1/empLogin.htm",
data: JSON.stringify(datacontent), // Note it is important
success: function(data) {
alert(data.empName + " " + data.empPassword);
}
// error: function(data, status, er) {
// alert("Data: " + data + "Status: " + status + "Error:" + er);
// }
});
});
});
</script>
Controller code:
#Controller
public class EmployeeRestController {
#RequestMapping(value = "/empLogin.htm", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public #ResponseBody EmployeeVo doRegister(#RequestBody EmployeeVo employeeVo){
System.out.println(employeeVo.getEmpName() + " " + employeeVo.getEmpPassword());
return employeeVo;
}
}
When I run this code values are shown in console but get error:
406 (Not Acceptable)
So below code is not working:
success: function(data) {
alert(data.empName + " " + data.empPassword);
}
I used jackson-annotations-2.3.0.jar, jackson-core-2.3.4.jar, jackson-databind-2.3.4.jar Jar files.

Answer 1

HTTP status code 406 means the server cannot respond in the format mandated by the request's accept header. In other words, your web service isn't configured to generate an application/json response.
Try removing the accept: "application/json" from your AJAX request, or add the content type to your response, like so:
#RequestMapping(value="/empLogin.htm", headers="Content-Type=application/json", method=RequestMethod.POST)