The request methods other than GET and POST with AJAX in Spring 3.2 don't work

[Tiny None]

I'm trying to call a method in Spring (3.2.0) via AJAX using the following jQuery 1.6 (using the PUT method).

function updateUserRole(id) { $.ajax({ datatype:"json", type: "PUT", url: "/wagafashion/ajax/UpdateUserRole.htm", data: "id="+id+"&t="+new Date().getTime(), success: function(response) { }, error: function(e) { alert('Error: ' + e); } }); }
It attempts to invoke the following method in Spring.

@RequestMapping(value=("ajax/UpdateUserRole"), method=RequestMethod.PUT)
public @ResponseBody void updateUserRole(@RequestParam(value=("id")) String id)
{
    System.out.println("id = "+id);
}

FireFox responds with the following error.

HTTP Status 405 - Request method 'GET' not supported

type Status report

message Request method 'GET' not supported

description The specified HTTP method is not allowed for the requested resource (Request method 'GET' not supported).

Apache Tomcat/6.0.26

It works with the GET and POST methods and JSON (with Jackson-2.1.1) also works fine in other parts of the application.


If you need to see the dispatcher-servlet.xml file, the full contents is as follows.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd"> <context:component-scan base-package="controller" /> <context:component-scan base-package="validatorbeans" /> <mvc:annotation-driven content-negotiation-manager="contentNegotiationManager" > <mvc:message-converters register-defaults="false"> <bean id="jacksonMessageConverter" p:supportedMediaTypes="application/json" class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter"/> </mvc:message-converters> </mvc:annotation-driven> <bean id="contentNegotiationManager" class="org.springframework.web.accept.ContentNegotiationManagerFactoryBean"> <property name="favorPathExtension" value="false" /> <property name="favorParameter" value="false" /> <property name="ignoreAcceptHeader" value="false" /> <property name="mediaTypes" > <value> atom=application/atom+xml html=text/html json=application/json *=*/* </value> </property> </bean> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping" /> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter"/> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleMappingExceptionResolver"> <property name="exceptionMappings"> <props> <prop key="org.springframework.web.multipart.MaxUploadSizeExceededException"> fileUploadingFailure </prop> </props> </property> </bean> <bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping"> <property name="mappings"> <props> <prop key="index.htm">indexController</prop> </props> </property> </bean> <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver" p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/" p:suffix=".jsp" /> <bean name="indexController" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ParameterizableViewController" p:viewName="index" /> </beans>

How to make HTTP methods other than GET and POST work in Spring 3.2?

I have org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter configured in my web.xml file and Servlet works with other HTTP methods (including GET and POST). The problem in question was also working fine with the Spring framework 3.0.2 with no configurations at all and the PUT method (i.e other than GET and POST) works with with <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="put"/> but it doesn't appear to be the case with AJAX in Spring 3.2.

[Mark Spritzler]

I think you still need the input. The main problem is that browsers don't support PUT and DELETE, so you have to use this workaround, no matter what Spring version.

Personally, I have also tried doing JQuery ajax and making them PUTs and such, but never could get it to do an actual AJAX PUT or DELETE.

Mark

[Bear Bibeault]

I have no problem at all getting jQuery and Ajax to make requests of all methods including PUT and DELETE. What browser?

Have you used the browser's debugger to view the request and see what's actually being submitted?

[Mark Spritzler]

Bear Bibeault wrote:I have no problem at all getting jQuery and Ajax to make requests of all methods including PUT and DELETE. What browser?

Have you used the browser's debugger to view the request and see what's actually being submitted?

Yeah it was always submitted as a POST for me.

But hey, I haven't finished reading your book yet, so I am not the Ninja like you yet. ;)

Mark