Spring boot application not accepting ID of incoming POST request - spring

Question

I have an existing system that uses string based unique IDs for users and I want to transfer that System into a Spring boot application. I want to creat a user so I send a POST request with the following content:
As you can see, the id gets ignored.
This is my Spring code for the user class:
#PostMapping("/user")
ResponseEntity addUser(User receivedUser) {
Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Logger.GLOBAL_LOGGER_NAME);
logger.info("Empfangener User: " + receivedUser.toString());
try {
User mailCheckUser = userService.getUserByMail(receivedUser.getEmail());
User nameCheckUser = userService.getUserByName(receivedUser.getUsername());
if (mailCheckUser != null){
return new ResponseEntity("Email already exists", HttpStatus.NOT_ACCEPTABLE);
}
if (nameCheckUser != null){
return new ResponseEntity("Username already exists", HttpStatus.NOT_ACCEPTABLE);
}
userService.addUser(receivedUser);
} catch (Exception userCreationError) {
return new ResponseEntity(receivedUser, HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
}
return new ResponseEntity(receivedUser, HttpStatus.OK);
}
public void addUser(User user) {
userRepository.save(user);
}
And this is my user class:
#Entity
#Table
public class User {
#Id
#Column(unique =true)
private String id;
private #Column(unique =true)
String username;
private #Column(unique =true)
String email;
private #Column(unique =true)
String simpleAuthToken;
private
String password;
/*REDACTED*/
private
boolean isBlocked;
public User(String id, String name, String email, boolean isBlocked) {
this.id = id;
this.username = name;
this.email = email;
this.simpleAuthToken = simpleAuthToken;
this.isBlocked = false;
}
public User() {
}
/*GETTERS AND SETTERS ARE HERE, BUT I CUT THEM FOR SPACING REASONS*/
}
And this is the Spring Output:
My expected outcome would be that Spring would recognize the id and then create a user with the id I provided. Why is the id always null?
EDIT: If I put the ID in a Put or Get Mapping as Path variable, like so:
#PutMapping("/user/{id}")
ResponseEntity updateUser(#PathVariable String id, User receivedUser) {}
then it gets read and recognized, but it will still be null in the receivedUser

Answer 1

First add #RequestBody in the post request body. In the Post request (/test/user) your passing some params but in the method level not received.
If you want receive id from postman then add #RequestParam("id")String id in the method level.
How you generating unique Id by manually or some generators?
And double check user id at the database console level.