As mentioned in the comments (and the documentation), value is an alias to path. Spring often declares the value element as an alias to a commonly used element. In the case of @RequestMapping (and @GetMapping, …) this is the path property: This is an alias for path(). For example @RequestMapping(“/foo”) is equivalent to @RequestMapping(path=”/foo”). The … Read more
The error that you get does not seem to be related to the RequestHeader. And you seem to be confusing Spring REST services with JAX-RS, your method signature should be something like: @RequestMapping(produces = “application/json”, method = RequestMethod.GET, value = “data”) @ResponseBody public ResponseEntity<Data> getData(@RequestHeader(value=”User-Agent”) String userAgent, @RequestParam(value = “ID”, defaultValue = “”) String id) … Read more
Authorization is the primary header used by clients to authenticate against peers in HTTP as foreseen in RFC 7235. It is often linked to the Basic authentication scheme as per RFC 7617, but that is not a given. The Basic scheme allows clients to provide a username-password-pair separated by a colon (:) coded in Base64. … Read more