原文：

正文

理解一下@RestControlle的作用。

This code uses Spring 4’s new @RestController annotation, which marks the class as a controller where every method returns a domain object instead of a view. It’s shorthand for @Controller and @ResponseBody rolled together.

上文摘自官网。

由上面可见，@RestController=@Controller+@ResponseBody，下一步，理解@Controller。

Classic controllers can be annotated with the @Controller annotation. This is simply a specialization of the @Component class and allows implementation classes to be autodetected through the classpath scanning.

@Controller is typically used in combination with a @RequestMapping annotation used on request handling methods.

摘自这里，可以看出以下几点：

@Controller 是一种特殊化的@Component 类。
@Controller 习惯于和@RequestMapping绑定来使用，后者是用来指定路由映射的。

下一步，理解@ResponseBody。

The request handling method is annotated with @ResponseBody. This annotation enables automatic serialization of the return object into the HttpResponse.

摘自同样的地方，这里可以看出：

@ResponseBody 是用来把返回对象自动序列化成HttpResponse的。

再参考这里：

3. @ResponseBody

The @ResponseBody annotation tells a controller that the object returned is automatically serialized into JSON and passed back into the HttpResponse object.

Suppose we have a custom Response object:

1

2

3

4

5

public class ResponseTransfer {

    private String text;



    // standard getters/setters

}

Next, the associated controller can be implemented:

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

@Controller

@RequestMapping("/post")

public class ExamplePostController {

    @Autowired

    ExampleService exampleService;

    @PostMapping("/response")

    @ResponseBody

    public ResponseTransfer postResponseController(

      @RequestBody LoginForm loginForm) {

        return new ResponseTransfer("Thanks For Posting!!!");

     }

}

In the developer console of our browser or using a tool like Postman, we can see the following response:

1

{"text":"Thanks For Posting!!!"}

Remember, we don’t need to annotate the @RestController-annotated controllers with the @ResponseBody annotation since it’s done by default here.

从上面可以看出：

@ResponseBody告诉控制器返回对象会被自动序列化成JSON，并且传回HttpResponse这个对象。

再补充一下@RequestBody：

Simply put, the @RequestBody annotation maps the HttpRequest body to a transfer or domain object, enabling automatic deserialization of the inbound HttpRequest body onto a Java object.

First, let’s have a look at a Spring controller method:

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

@PostMapping("/request")

public ResponseEntity postController(

  @RequestBody LoginForm loginForm) {



    exampleService.fakeAuthenticate(loginForm);

    return ResponseEntity.ok(HttpStatus.OK);

}

Spring automatically deserializes the JSON into a Java type assuming an appropriate one is specified. By default, the type we annotate with the @RequestBody annotation must correspond to the JSON sent from our client-side controller:

1

2

3

4

5

public class LoginForm {

    private String username;

    private String password;

    // ...

}

Here, the object we use to represent the HttpRequest body maps to our LoginForm object.

Let’s test this using CURL:

1

2

3

4

5

curl -i \

-H "Accept: application/json" \

-H "Content-Type:application/json" \

-X POST --data

  '{"username": "johnny", "password": "password"}' "https://localhost:8080/.../request"

This is all that is needed for a Spring REST API and an Angular client using the @RequestBody annotation!