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I want to return a JSONArray(org.json.jar) object from spring controller method, this is my java spring controller :
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
#RestController
public class BICOntroller{
#RequestMapping(value="/getStatus", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ResponseEntity<JSONArray> getStatus() throws JSONException{
ResponseEntity<JSONArray> response = null;
JSONArray arr = new JSONArray();
JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();
//process data
arr.put(obj);
response = new ResponseEntity<JSONArray>(arr, HttpStatus.OK);
return response;
}
}
Angular js call :
$http({
url: 'getStatus',
method: 'GET',
responseType: 'json'
}).then(function(response){
console.log(response);
return response;
}, function(error){
console.log(error);
return error;
});
This gives 500 error :
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No converter found for return value of type: class org.json.JSONArray
I have included jackson-core-2.7.5.jar and jackson-databind-2.7.5.jar in the class path.
Thanks!

Apart from adding dependencies, you may need this.
If you are not using spring boot, update your spring xxx-servlet.xml with message converters for JSON.
<mvc:annotation-driven>
<mvc:message-converters>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter"/>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter"/>
</mvc:message-converters>
</mvc:annotation-driven>
if you are using spring boot, adding dependencies in pom.xml alone will suffice.
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
<version>2.4.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>2.4.3</version>
</dependency>