406 Not Acceptable in Spring MVC application (OSGi, Virgo Web Server) using Jackson, Rome and JAXB2
jackson, java, jaxb2, rome, spring-mvc
Solution
Spring falls back to returning a 406 if it can't find a json converter.
Verify that the jackson jars are actually deployed to the webapp's lib directory. This was the problem in my case.
Problem
I just started learning the Virgo Web Server. I'm trying to work with Jakcson JSON in Spring MVC application. At this stage I can not get a GET request serialized object. The server returns "406 Not Acceptable": ``` The resource identified by this request is only capable of generating responses with characteristics not acceptable according to the request "accept" headers (). ``` The same problem arises when using Rome and JAXB2. Here is the project configuration files and code: Fragment pom.xml: ``` <dependency> <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId> <artifactId>com.springsource.org.codehaus.jackson</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId> <artifactId>com.springsource.org.codehaus.jackson.mapper</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> </dependency> ``` MANIFEST.MF ``` Manifest-Version: 1.0 Import-Bundle: com.springsource.org.apache.taglibs.standard;version="[ 1.1.2,1.3)",com.springsource.org.codehaus.jackson;version="[1.0.0,1.0 .0]",com.springsource.org.codehaus.jackson.mapper;version="[1.0.0,1.0 .0]" Bundle-Version: 2.3.0 Tool: Bundlor 1.0.0.RELEASE Bundle-Name: GreenPages Web Import-Library: org.springframework.spring;version="[3.0, 3.1)" Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2 Bundle-SymbolicName: greenpages.web Web-ContextPath: greenpages Import-Package: javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.core;version="[1.1.2,1.2.0)",ja vax.sql,org.apache.commons.dbcp,org.eclipse.virgo.web.dm;version="[2. 0.0, 3.0.0)",org.springframework.core.io;version="[3.0.0.RELEASE,3.1. 0)",org.springframework.stereotype;version="[3.0.0.RELEASE,3.1.0)",or g.springframework.ui;version="[3.0.0.RELEASE,3.1.0)",org.springframew ork.web.bind.annotation;version="[3.0.0.RELEASE,3.1.0)",org.springfra mework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation;version="[3.0.0.RELEASE,3.1.0)",org .springframework.web.servlet.view;version="[3.0.0.RELEASE,3.1.0)" ``` web.xml ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5"> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>/WEB-INF/pages/index.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> <!-- CONFIGURE A PARENT APPLICATION CONTEXT --> <context-param> <param-name>contextClass</param-name> <param-value>org.eclipse.virgo.web.dm.ServerOsgiBundleXmlWebApplicationContext</param-value> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value> </context-param> <listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> </listener> <!-- DISPATCHER SERVLET CONFIG --> <servlet> <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> ``` dispatcher-servlet.xml ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd"> <context:component-scan base-package="greenpages.web"/> <!-- Configures the @Controller programming model --> <mvc:annotation-driven /> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping"/> <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"> <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/> <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/pages/"/> <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/> </bean> </beans> ``` GreenPagesController.java ``` package greenpages.web; import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody; @Controller public class GreenPagesController { @RequestMapping("/home.htm") public void home() { } // MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter (requires Jackson on the classpath - particularly useful for serving JavaScript clients that expect to work with JSON) @RequestMapping(value="/json.htm", method=RequestMethod.POST) public @ResponseBody String readJson(@RequestBody JavaBean bean) { return "Read from JSON " + bean; } @RequestMapping(value="/json.htm", method=RequestMethod.GET) public @ResponseBody Object writeJson() { return new Object(); } } ``` index.jsp ``` <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %> <html> <head> <title>Simple jsp page</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="/greenpages/scripts/jquery-1.4.4.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $.getJSON("json.htm", function(message) { console.log(message); }); </script> </head> <body> <form action="test.htm" method="get"> <input type="text" name="name"> <input type="submit"> </form> </body> </html> ``` AJAX Request http://localhost:8080/greenpages/json.htm: Request Headers from Firebug: ``` GET /greenpages/json.htm HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8080 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 115 Connection: keep-alive X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest Referer: http://localhost:8080/greenpages/ Cookie: JSESSIONID=18000E4E096D7978F61F5D1E8105B784; JSESSIONID=35FB0925786699EC587A1B64F30517AD ``` Response Headers: ``` HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 1070 Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:15:58 GMT ``` In what may be the problem?