Tomcat on AWS ElasticBeanstalk doesn't Accept JSON - json

Question

I have written a spring MVC application using the spring tools for eclipse and deployed it onto an tomcat 7 environment on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. But when I try to return JSON I get the following error.
406- The resource identified by this request is only capable of generating responses with characteristics not acceptable according to the request "accept" headers.
But when I run the same application locally on glassfish server it runs perfectly and returns the intended json as follows:
{"id":1,"message":"Hello, World!","description":"Hello, World!"}
Here is my code:
Controller code :
private static final String template = "Hello, %s!";
private final AtomicInteger counter = new AtomicInteger();
#RequestMapping(value = "/greeting",headers="Accept=*/*",method = RequestMethod.GET)
public #ResponseBody ResponseBean greeting(#RequestParam(value="name", required=false, defaultValue="World") String name,HttpServletResponse response , ModelMap model){
response.setContentType("application/json");
return new ResponseBean(counter.incrementAndGet(),String.format(template, name),String.format(template, name));
}
My Response Bean Code :
package com.ramesh.beans;
public class ResponseBean {
private final int id;
private final String message;
private final String description;
public ResponseBean(int id,String message,String desc){
this.id = id;
this.message = message;
this.description = desc;
}
public int getId() {
return id;
}
public String getMessage() {
return message;
}
public String getDescription() {
return description;
}
}
My servlet-context.xml file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans
xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
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/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
<!-- DispatcherServlet Context: defines this servlet's request-processing
infrastructure -->
<!-- Enables the Spring MVC #Controller programming model -->
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving
up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory -->
<resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
<!-- Resolves views selected for rendering by #Controllers to .jsp resources
in the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<beans:property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</beans:bean>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.ramesh.ws" />
</beans:beans>
Could anyone please help me out ?. I am willing to provide any more information about my program if needed.
My request headers on chrome are as follows :
They are as follows :
1 requests ❘ 1.3 KB transferred ❘ 250 ms (load: 256 ms, DOMContentLoaded: 257 ms)
HeadersPreviewResponseTiming
Remote Address:54.206.99.113:80
Request URL:http://ramesh-dev-gvssfipguk.elasticbeanstalk.com/greeting
Request Method:GET
Status Code:406 Not Acceptable
Request Headers
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6,ms;q=0.4
Cache-Control:max-age=0
Connection:keep-alive
Host:ramesh-dev-gvssfipguk.elasticbeanstalk.com
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.137 Safari/537.36
Response Headers
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:1070
Content-Type:text/html;charset=utf-8
Date:Tue, 20 May 2014 10:14:45 GMT
Server:Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-Cache:MISS from tx33vspep22a

Answer 1

I finally fixed it by updating my controller method as shown below:
#RequestMapping(value = "/greeting",produces="application/json",method = RequestMethod.GET)
public #ResponseBody ResponseBean greeting(#RequestParam(value="name", required=false, defaultValue="World") String name,HttpServletResponse response , ModelMap model){
response.setContentType("application/json");
return new ResponseBean(counter.incrementAndGet(),String.format(template, name),String.format(template, name));
}
It seems when deploying to tomcat I need the produces="application/json" property.