Do not resolve view in RESTful Application

Question

I am building a web application with RESTful web services using Spring MVC 3. The web services will be used by applications, so should never really resolve any requests to a view. Is there any way to specify in the servlet context that no requests should resolve to any view?

At the moment, I have:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"> <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" /> <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" /> </bean>

which I know tries to resolve any request to a correspondingly named view in the jsp folder. However, if I remove this, the application just tries to use a default view resolver.

The reason I am concerned about this is that my application logs are going to be full of the following messages (even though it works fine):

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [DispatcherServlet] in context with path [/vouchd] threw exception [Circular view path [signup]: would dispatch back to the current handler URL [/vouchd/signup] again. Check your ViewResolver setup! (Hint: This may be the result of an unspecified view, due to default view name generation.)] with root cause javax.servlet.ServletException: Circular view path [signup]: would dispatch back to the current handler URL [/vouchd/signup] again. Check your ViewResolver setup! (Hint: This may be the result of an unspecified view, due to default view name generation.)

or with the InternalViewResolver:

WARN [http-bio-8080-exec-4] (DispatcherServlet.java:1057) - No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/app/WEB-INF/jsp/call.jsp] in DispatcherServlet with name 'DispatcherServlet'

which I guess is the better of the two evils. I don't want to turn off logging WARN level.

Tomasz Nurkiewicz · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-06 12:34:07Z

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Try with @ResponseStatus. This code returns 204 with no content and view resolving skipped:

@ResponseStatus(NO_CONTENT) void noView() { //... }

If you want to return raw data and simply serialize it to JSON or XML, use @ResponseBody:

@ResponseBody MyPojo noView() { return new MyPojo(); }

edited Dec 6, 2011 at 12:34

answered Dec 6, 2011 at 12:20

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2 Comments

Nico Huysamen Over a year ago

I am still returning JSON data to the requesting application. Wouldn't this negate that?

Tomasz Nurkiewicz Over a year ago

@NicoHuysamen: sorry, I misunderstood no requests should resovle to any view, see my update.

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