Getting HTTP response code 200 in API response even after returning ResponseEntity with HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST

Question

I used the solution given in https://stackoverflow.com/a/16250729/351903 -

@Path("api/path")
    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    public ResponseEntity<String> handshakeForTxn()
    {

       return new ResponseEntity<String>(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST);
    }

I still get a 200 response status -

Server responded with a response on thread XNIO-3 task-2 2 < 200 2 < Content-Type: application/json

Although the response body contains a statusCodeValue which is set to 400 -

{ "headers": {}, "body": null, "statusCode": "BAD_REQUEST", "statusCodeValue": 400 }

hi buddy you are using jersey right i dont think those annotations belong to spring check this link for returning a 400 response https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4687271/jax-rs-how-to-return-json-and-http-status-code-together — Robert Ellis, Sep 06 '18 at 07:36
This is working fine to return 400 response code. How to return an empty body? — Sandeepan Nath, Sep 06 '18 at 12:21
just have to return null or empty in the entity please check i am not sure of this Response.ok().entity("").build(); — Robert Ellis, Sep 07 '18 at 06:09

Alexander Petrov · Answer 1 · 2018-09-06T09:03:51.427

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You need to remove

@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)

RestController return JSON by default.

You controller should look like

@RestController
public class RegistrationController {

@GetMapping("api/path")
public ResponseEntity register() {
    return ResponseEntity.badRequest().build();
}

}

You could check code example here. https://github.com/alex-petrov81/stackoverflow-answers/tree/master/bad-request-show-200

edited Sep 06 '18 at 09:03

answered Sep 05 '18 at 15:51

Alexander Petrov

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Ok, but my controller is not annotated with @RestController. – Sandeepan Nath Sep 06 '18 at 10:55
ok, it would be nice to see all of your controller code, and not only one method. – Alexander Petrov Sep 06 '18 at 11:02

Robert Ellis · Answer 2 · 2019-03-12T09:38:00.267

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The correct way to do this would be

Response.noContent().status(Response.Status.NOT_FOUND).build()

Response.ok().entity("").build();

edited Mar 12 '19 at 09:38

answered Sep 07 '18 at 09:51

Robert Ellis

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 25 '18 at 12:33

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This worked for me -

For 200 -

return Response.status(Response.Status.OK).entity("").build();

For 400 -

return Response.status(Response.Status.BAD_REQUEST).entity("").build();

answered Sep 25 '18 at 12:33

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Getting HTTP response code 200 in API response even after returning ResponseEntity with HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST

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