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Spring MVC - @RequestBody Examples

[Last Updated: Nov 8, 2025]

Spring MVC 

import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/users")
public class UserControllerConsume {

    @RequestMapping(consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
    public String handleJson(@RequestBody String s) {
        System.out.println("json body : " + s);
        return "";
    }

    @RequestMapping(consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE)
    public String handleXML(@RequestBody String s) {
        System.out.println("xml body " + s);
        return "";
    }
}
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import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.util.MultiValueMap;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;


@Controller
@RequestMapping("message")
public class MyController {

    @RequestMapping(consumes = MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_VALUE,
                        produces = MediaType.TEXT_HTML_VALUE,
                        method = RequestMethod.GET)
    @ResponseBody
    public String handleRequest (@RequestBody byte[] bytes, @RequestBody String str) {

        System.out.println("body in bytes: " + bytes);
        System.out.println("body in string: " + str);

        return "<html><body><h1>Hi there</h1></body></html>";
    }

    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST, consumes = MediaType
                        .APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED_VALUE)
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.OK)
    public void handleFormRequest (@RequestBody MultiValueMap<String, String> formParams) {
        System.out.println("form params received " + formParams);
    }

    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.PUT,
                        consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED_VALUE)
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.CREATED)
    public void handleFormPutRequest (@RequestBody MultiValueMap<String, String> formParams) {
        System.out.println("form params received " + formParams);
    }

}
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    @Autowired
    private UserService userService;

    @RequestMapping(value = "register",
                        method = RequestMethod.POST,
                        consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE)
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.CREATED)
    public void handleXMLPostRequest (@RequestBody User user) {
        System.out.println("saving user: " + user);
        userService.saveUser(user);
    }
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    @RequestMapping(value = "register", method = RequestMethod.POST,
                        consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.CREATED)
    public void handleJsonPostRequest (@RequestBody User user, Model model) {
        System.out.println("saving user: "+user);
        userService.saveUser(user);
    }
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