REST method's won't PUT or POST to the server - spring

Question

I'm trying to get some REST methods working in my Spring app but seem to be running into little success. I'm obviously missing something but I can't tell for the life of me what it would be. Here is my controller:
#Controller
public class IndexController {
static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(IndexController.class);
#Autowired
private ProvisionService provisionService;
#RequestMapping(value="/home/data", method=RequestMethod.GET,
headers="Accept=application/json")
public #ResponseBody List<Provision> getData() {
Object principal = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getPrincipal();
String username = null;
if(principal instanceof UserDetails)
username = ((UserDetails)principal).getUsername();
return provisionService.getAllByUser(username);
}
//JSON put request - doesn't work currently
#RequestMapping(value="/home/data", method=RequestMethod.PUT,
headers="Content-Type=application/json")
#ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.NO_CONTENT)
public void updateProvisions(#RequestBody List<Provision> provisions) {
log.info("Provisions: " + provisions.toString());
}
#RequestMapping(value={"/","/home"}, method=RequestMethod.GET)
public void showIndex() {}
}
Here is the main part of JSP that utilizes it:
<sf:form id="homeForm" method="put" action="${homeData_url}"></sf:form>
The form is submitted through Javascript when the user clicks on a button. Anyway, things work fine for the GET. I get Json returned with my List of objects, no problems. I then display that using Dojo and so far so good. However, when I try to return the Json with this form I'm getting a 405 - Request method 'POST' not supported error. As you can see I've got the method handler in my Controller so I'm really not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've taken those handler's out of the Spring in Action 3 book and it also resembles what some Spring docs and stuff say to do, but obviously I'm missing a key component. Anyone have any thoughts?
I do have the HiddenHttpMethodFilter mapped in my web.xml which is why I'm using the Spring form tag.
Anyway, any thoughts or help are appreciated. Thank you.
------------------UPDATE------------------
Here are the headers after I click on the button and get the 405 error, if it helps:
http://localhost:8080/NFI/home
POST /NFI/home HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://localhost:8080/NFI/home
Cookie: JSESSIONID=584AC21ADE4F214904B9E7E2370363EF
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 11
HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Allow: GET, PUT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1085
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:39:26 GMT

Answer 1

Submitting a Form is done using POST. You get a "POST" not supported error.
Above, I see you are using a RequestMethod.PUT in your source code. There's no mention of POST at all.

Answer 2

Add you need to add a parameter _method with value PUT to your request. Not to the json content!
So in the first step I would change requested URL to /home/data?_method=PUT.
If this work you can search for an way how to add the _method parameter to the request content without disturbing the Json data.

Answer 3

You updated your question with the headers, could you also put the entire request out there (actual dumped values) to see the _method parameter(s) being sent?
Also, while I guess the headers=""-rules are valid they shouldn't be needed. You have a json converter bean that will do marshall and unmarshall based on content-type and accept headers, if no valid converter is found Spring will return an error.
The only reason to include it in the #RequestMapping would be if you had a method that actually did something else if you called it with xml instead of json and that sounds like a bad design.
Remove those header-rules and try again, make it as simple as possible and gradually add logic.