JSON POST Spring MVC Curl - 400 bad request - spring

Question

This is my curl method request maps to POJO that fails with 400:
CURL REQUEST:
curl -v -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"key":"XYZ","uniqueId":"ABCD"}' http://localhost:8080/api/rest/connect/tick/view.json
* Adding handle: conn: 0x1cb54c0
* Adding handle: send: 0
* Adding handle: recv: 0
* Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
* - Conn 0 (0x1cb54c0) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
* About to connect() to localhost port 8080 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
> POST /api/rest/connect/tick/view.json HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.32.0
> Host: localhost:8080
> Accept: application/json
> Content-type: application/json
> Content-Length: 53
>
* upload completely sent off: 53 out of 53 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
* Server Apache-Coyote/1.1 is not blacklisted
< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
< Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 971
< Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:16:29 GMT
< Connection: close
APPLICATION-CONFIG.XML:
<context:annotation-config/>
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
followed by, Bean Definitions
CONTROLLER CLASS:
#RequestMapping(value="/tick/view.*", method = RequestMethod.POST, consumes=MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, produces=MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
#ResponseBody
public IConnectResponse tickConnectPost(#RequestBody final ConnectServiceBean connectServiceBean) {
CONNECTSERVICEBEAN:
import java.io.Serializable;
public class ConnectServiceBean implements Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private String key;
private String uniqueId;
//Getters and setters }
But is working for another method request maps to String:
curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"JKL#user.com"}' http://localhost:8080/api/rest/connect/tick/XYZ/view.json
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Content-Language: en-GB
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:11:40 GMT
CONTROLLER:
#RequestMapping(value="/tick/{key}/view.*", method = RequestMethod.POST, consumes="application/json", produces = "application/json; charset=utf-8")
public IConnectResponse tickConnectPostString (
#PathVariable("key") String key, #RequestBody String uniqueId
) {}
I felt that there is something wrong with Jackson Mapping. But I have all the necessary POM dependencies also I read in some other stackoverflow post where I need only for Jackson configurations for bean mappings(not sure though)
org.codehaus.jackson
jackson-core-asl
1.9.7
org.codehaus.jackson
jackson-mapper-asl
1.9.7