Spring post method "Required request body is missing"

Question

@PostMapping(path="/login")
public ResponseEntity<User> loginUser(@RequestBody Map<String, String> userData) throws Exception {
    return ResponseEntity.ok(userService.login(userData));
}

I have this method for the login in the UserController. The problem is when i try to make the post request for the login i get this error:

{
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T16:47:04.691+0000",
"status": 400,
"error": "Bad Request",
"message": "Required request body is missing: public org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity<org.scd.model.User> org.scd.controller.UserController.loginUser(java.util.Map<java.lang.String, java.lang.String>) throws java.lang.Exception",
"path": "/users/login"
}

Hi! what is the body you are passing to your API? – L. Figueredo Oct 24 '18 at 16:57 — L. Figueredo, Oct 24 '18 at 16:57
Do i need to pass the email and password in Body? – Ionut Oct 24 '18 at 16:59 — Ionut, Oct 24 '18 at 16:59
Depends, you can do on both ways, se my anwer :D – L. Figueredo Oct 24 '18 at 17:02 — L. Figueredo, Oct 24 '18 at 17:02

score 24 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 24 '18 at 17:06

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You have to pass that as JSON in your body, if it's a POST request.

answered Oct 24 '18 at 17:06

cosmos

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Change Media type `Text` to `JSON` as I have done in the picture above. – cosmos Oct 24 '18 at 17:12
for some case (happened to me), it must be added headers information. – Johan Apr 27 '22 at 08:06

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 24 '18 at 17:02

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This is happening because you are not passing a body to you server. As can I see in your screenshot you are passing email and password as a ResquestParam.

To handle this values, you can do the following:

@PostMapping(path="/login")
public ResponseEntity<User> loginUser(@RequestParam("email") String email, @RequestParam("password") String password) {
     //your imp
}

In order to accept an empty body you can use the required param in the RequestBody annotation:

@RequestBody(required = false)

But this will not solve your problem. Receiving as RequestParam will.

If you want to use RequestBody you should pass the email and password in the body.

answered Oct 24 '18 at 17:02

L. Figueredo

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To receive RequestParam in POST you can refer to this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17964841/how-to-get-param-in-method-post-spring-mvc You can also pass the data through the body, which makes sense too, since it is a post request. – L. Figueredo Oct 24 '18 at 17:07
The **@RequestBody** for the Type doesn't work, but actual Type parameters work? Wonder why? – Jose Mhlanga Jan 12 '20 at 23:49
this solution works for me, make sure on postman you're sending the post with the parameters as well – lsramos329 Oct 31 '21 at 11:11

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 01 '21 at 20:06

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I had a similar issue, was getting this error in my Spring Boot service

HttpMessageNotReadableException: Required request body is missing:...

My issue was that, when I was making requests from Postman, the "Content-Length" header was unchecked, so service was not considering the request body.

answered Oct 01 '21 at 20:06

Florin D

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You saved my day – mordekhai Nov 22 '21 at 09:50

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 24 '18 at 17:05

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You need to send data in Body as JSON

 { "email":"email@email.com", "password":"tuffCookie"}

answered Oct 24 '18 at 17:05

user7294900

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@lonut click raw – user7294900 Oct 24 '18 at 17:10
@lonut click on text combo and change to json – user7294900 Oct 24 '18 at 17:14

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 27 '22 at 08:12

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If it's still not working, try adding additional information UTF-8 in Headers.

key : Content-Type value : application/json; charset=utf-8

For my case, I must adding UTF-8 in Headers.

answered Apr 27 '22 at 08:12

Johan

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