I am new to web programming in general, especially in Java, so I just learned what a header and body is.
I'm writing RESTful services using Spring MVC. I am able to create simple services with the @RequestMapping
in my controllers. I need help understanding how to get HTTP header information from a request that comes to my method in my REST service controller. I would like to parse out the header and get some attributes from it.
Could you explain how I go about getting that information?
When you annotate a parameter with @RequestHeader
, the parameter retrieves the header information. So you can just do something like this:
@RequestHeader("Accept")
to get the Accept
header.
So from the documentation:
@RequestMapping("/displayHeaderInfo.do")
public void displayHeaderInfo(@RequestHeader("Accept-Encoding") String encoding,
@RequestHeader("Keep-Alive") long keepAlive) {
}
The Accept-Encoding
and Keep-Alive
header values are provided in the encoding
and keepAlive
parameters respectively.
And no worries. We are all noobs with something.