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ArminB
ArminB

Reputation: 35

How to solve error message "status": 415, "error": "Unsupported Media Type"," for DELETE request in Spring?

I created a Spring Boot application based on Service Components using this tutorial.

My delette request is constructed in the following way:

   @RequestMapping(value = "/api/greetings/{id}", method = RequestMethod.DELETE, consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
public ResponseEntity<Greeting> deleteGreeting(@PathVariable("id") Long id, @RequestBody Greeting greeting) {


    greetingService.delete(id);

    return new ResponseEntity<Greeting>(HttpStatus.NO_CONTENT);
    }

All the other requests work finally, but if I make the DELETE request in Postman I get the following error:

   {
"timestamp": 1519060345434,
"status": 415,
"error": "Unsupported Media Type",
"exception": "org.springframework.web.HttpMediaTypeNotSupportedException",
"message": "Content type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' not supported",
"path": "/api/greetings/2"

}

I have checked the following issues, nothing helped (which is no wonder, none of them is issuing the DELETE request:

415 Unsupported MediaType

415 Unsupported MediaType for POST request in spring application

415 Unsupported Media Type in RESTful webservice Ask

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5209

Answers (1)

Bilal Raza
Bilal Raza

Reputation: 21

Your controller is expecting application/json as content-type but as the error message displays 

"message": "Content type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' not supported",

you should change the header in postman to content-type application/json

Upvotes: 1

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