Spring what is the easiest way to return custom Http status, headers and body to Rest Client

Question

I would like to return to my Rest Client the simplest answer.
Only the:

http status code 201

http status message Created

http header Content Type

http response body Custom string answer

What is the easiest way?

I've used to use

ResponseEntity

object this way:

return new ResponseEntity<String>("Custom string answer", HttpStatus.CREATED);

,

but unfortunately, I can not simple pass http header in constructor.

I have to create

HttpHeaders

object and there add my custom header like this:

MultiValueMap<String, String> headers = new HttpHeaders();

headers.add(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_VALUE);



return new ResponseEntity<String>("Custom string answer", headers, HttpStatus.CREATED);

But I am looking for something simpler. Something that could fit one line of code.

Can Anyone help?

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Answer 1

As already suggested from @M.Deinum this is the easiest way:

@RequestMapping("someMapping")
@ResponseBody
public ResponseEntity<String> create() {
    return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.CREATED)
       .contentType(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
       .body("Custom string answer");
}

Spring what is the easiest way to return custom Http status, headers and body to Rest Client

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