Returning view from Spring MVC @RestController

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@RestController is not meant to be used to return views to be resolved. It is supposed to return data which will be written to the body of the response, hence the inclusion of @ResponseBody. You can not selectively disable the @ResponseBody on individual handler methods when @ResponseBody is already annotation on class level.

You can work around it by returning ModelAndView, which will work even in @RestController, but you really shouldn’t:

@RequestMapping
public ModelAndView renderFooList() {
    ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView("foo/list");
    mav.addObject("foos", fooService.getFoos());
    return mav;
}

It would be better to create separate controllers for normal handlers returning views and REST controllers for the RESTful stuff. Or to annotate the class with plain @Controller and put @ResponseBody on the methods where you actually need it.

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