Tomcat redirects all post request to get - spring-boot

Question

I have issue with tomcat 9.0.50.
I have a basic Springboot application to deploy and all my post requests are actually redirected to GET request.
here is my Main class:
#SpringBootApplication
public class WsApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(WsApplication.class, args);
}
#Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(WsApplication.class);
}
}
Here i simply extend my class with SpringBootServletInitializer and I added the configure method.
Second point: I created a GET and a POST request in a controller.
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/")
public class AppController {
#GetMapping
public String hello() {
return "Hello";
}
#PostMapping
public String helloName(#RequestBody String name) {
return "Hello " + name;
}
}
I also have my pom.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.6.6</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>ws-application</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>ws-facturx</name>
<description>ws-facturx</description>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<java.version>11</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
<artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<excludes>
<exclude>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
In my application.prpperties I configured SQL and application name:
# ws-application
spring.application.name=ws-application
# postgresql
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/mydb
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=root
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=create
spring.jpa.show-sql=true
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.format_sql=true
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL81Dialect
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQL81Dialect
It should normally work correctly. I can send GET request to my base URL and do retrieve the expected response. When I send a POST request, i obtain a 302 response. I created a dummy application to check if issue was coming from the application.
I tried the call using postman and with a curl request:
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/plain" -d "John" http://localhost:8080/ws-application
Is there any issue with tomcat or Springboot ? The java version used is provided in jdk-11.0.6

Answer 1

I don't really know "why" I have been able to solve this issue but here is the "how".
#Slf4j
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/api")
public class FacturxController {
#GetMapping
public String hello() {
return "Hello";
}
#PostMapping
public String helloName(#RequestBody String name) {
log.info("Hello Name");
return "Hello " + name;
}
}
this app has just one controller, but it seems that it required to set a path to the RequestMapping.