HTTP 400 on hitting Restful post service defined using Spring 4 MVC and MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter - spring

Question

I'm trying to create a restful controller using Spring 4 MVC and testing it with Fiddler by hitting the below mentioned RestFul Post web service but getting HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request as response, after i have added MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter to my dispatcher-servlet.xml. The Response comes up correctly If i use '#RequestBody String resource' instead of '#RequestBody Resource resource' for ResourceController post method arguments. I've added MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter to dispatcher-servlet.xml since spring was not detecting jackson and was throwing HTTP 415 on hitting this post service.
URL : http://localhost:8080/rma/api/resources/1
Headers :
User-Agent: Fiddler
Host: localhost:8080
Content-Length: 171
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Request Body :
{
"firstName" : "first",
"middleName" : "middle",
"lastName" : "last",
"email": "first#last.com",
"dateOfBirth": "09-10-1988",
"titleRole" : "software engineer"
}
dispatcher-servlet.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">
<context:annotation-config />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.pkg.controller" />
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<bean
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
<property name="messageConverters">
<list>
<bean
class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter" />
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="resourceDao" class="com.pkg.dao.ResourceDaoImpl">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"></property>
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/rma?"></property>
<property name="username" value="root"></property>
<property name="password" value="root"></property>
</bean>
</beans>
ResourceController.class
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/resources")
public class ResourceController {
#Autowired
private final ResourceDao resourceDao;
#Autowired
public ResourceController(ResourceDao resourceDao) {
this.resourceDao = resourceDao;
}
//get resources for a resource id
#RequestMapping(value ="/{hiringManager}", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces="application/json")
public List<Resource> getResources(#PathVariable String hiringManager){
return resourceDao.getResources(hiringManager);
}
//post a new resource for a resource id
#RequestMapping(value ="/{hiringManager}",method = RequestMethod.POST, consumes="application/json",produces="application/json")
public ResponseEntity<Resource> addResources(#PathVariable String hiringManager, #RequestBody Resource resource){
System.out.println("In controller" + hiringManager + " > Adding " +resource.toString());
return new ResponseEntity<Resource>(resource,HttpStatus.CREATED);
}
}
WebApplicationInitializer.class
public class ApplicationInitializer implements WebApplicationInitializer {
public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext)
throws ServletException {
//Registering Dispatcher Servlet
try{
ServletRegistration.Dynamic registration = servletContext.addServlet("dispatcher", new DispatcherServlet());
registration.setLoadOnStartup(1);
registration.addMapping("/api/*"); // URL mapping
} catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Resource.class
#Entity
public class Resource{
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
private int id;
private String firstName;
private String middleName;
private String lastName;
private String email;
#Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
private Date dateOfBirth;
private String titleRole;
private String hiringManagerId;
public Resource(){
}
public int getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getFirstName() {
return firstName;
}
public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
}
public String getLastName() {
return lastName;
}
public void setLastName(String lastName) {
this.lastName = lastName;
}
public Date getDateOfBirth() {
return dateOfBirth;
}
public void setDateOfBirth(Date dateOfBirth) {
this.dateOfBirth = dateOfBirth;
}
public String getTitleRole() {
return titleRole;
}
public void setTitleRole(String titleRole) {
this.titleRole = titleRole;
}
public String getHiringManagerId() {
return hiringManagerId;
}
public void setHiringManagerId(String hiringManagerId) {
this.hiringManagerId = hiringManagerId;
}
public String getMiddleName() {
return middleName;
}
public void setMiddleName(String middleName) {
this.middleName = middleName;
}
public String getEmail() {
return email;
}
public void setEmail(String email) {
this.email = email;
}
}
pom.xml
<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 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>rma</groupId>
<artifactId>rma</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<dependencies>
<!-- Spring Core Dependency -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>4.1.4.RELEASE</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring MVC Dependency -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>4.1.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>4.1.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Logger Dependency -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
<version>1.5.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.5.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.5.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.14</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Unit Testing Dependency -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Connection Pooling Dependency -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp2</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-pool2</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
</dependency>
<!-- ORM Dependency -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>4.3.8.Final</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Database Dependency -->
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.34</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>