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gmazlami
gmazlami

Reputation: 694

Spring Boot Application: No converter found for return value of type

I am writing a simple REST API according to this Spring-Boot tutorial. On my local dev machines (Ubuntu 15.04 and Windows 8.1) everything works like a charm.

I have an old 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server lying around on which I wanted to deploy my REST service.

The starting log is ok, but as soon as I send a GET request to the /user/{id} endpoint, I get the following error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No converter found for return value of type: class ch.gmazlami.gifty.models.user.User

And then down the stacktrace:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No converter found for return value of type: class java.util.LinkedHashMap

The entire stacktrace is posted here.

I looked into some answers referring this error, but those don't seem to apply to my problem, since I'm using Spring-Boot, no xml configs whatsoever.

The affected controller is:

    @RequestMapping(value = "/user/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ResponseEntity<User> getUser(@PathVariable Long id){
    try{
        return new ResponseEntity<User>(userService.getUserById(id), HttpStatus.OK);
    }catch(NoSuchUserException e){
        return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
    }
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated. It is very weird since the exact same things work on other machines perfectly.

Upvotes: 18

Views: 55576

Answers (6)

JACH
JACH

Reputation: 1048

To add to the rest of the answers: the methods must be public.

My IDE flagged that the methods could be "package only", prompting me to remove the "public" portion of the declaration (which I foolishly did).

I added public to my methods and solved the problem.

Upvotes: 1

Santiago Mart&#237; Olbrich
Santiago Mart&#237; Olbrich

Reputation: 1600

I was using IntelliJ Idea and its auto-generated getters and setters. Since I had a boolean field called success, the getter was named isSucccess(). I renamed it getSuccess() and the error went away.

Upvotes: 0

duyuanchao
duyuanchao

Reputation: 4303

I meet with this problem, because I omitted Getters and Setters method.

Upvotes: 5

Pierre Henry
Pierre Henry

Reputation: 17487

This happened to me, on one resource only (one method) and I did not understand why. All methods within classes in the same package, with the same annotations, same call to ResponseEntity.ok(...) etc. just worked.

But not this one.

It turns out I had forgottent to generate the getters on my POJO class !

As soon as I had added them it worked.

Hopefully it can save somebody some time eventually...

Upvotes: 33

Kaan Yy
Kaan Yy

Reputation: 491

This happens when you forget the "build" call:

return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST);

should be:

return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST).build();

Upvotes: 9

Yahia Ammar
Yahia Ammar

Reputation: 280

you should make some changes to your pom.xml and mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml files: Add the following dependecies to your pom.xml :

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.3</version>
</dependency>

and update your mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml:

<mvc:annotation-driven>
     <mvc:message-converters>
            <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter"/>
            <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter"/>
   </mvc:message-converters>
</mvc:annotation-driven>

Upvotes: 19

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