How to enable GZIP for RestController?

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I'm having a simple REST controller using spring. How could GZIP response of the returned application/xml stream be enabled?

@RestController
public class MyRest {
    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET,
            produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE)
    @ResponseBody
    public ComplexRsp test() {
        //...
    }
}

When using soap+wsdl approach, there would be the simple @GZIP annotation on the service class. How can I achieve the same for REST?

careful, HTTPS + HTTP Compression can be a security hole – Neil McGuigan Mar 01 '16 at 21:34 — Neil McGuigan, Mar 01 '16 at 21:34
@NeilMcGuigan Is there anywhere I can read more about that? – Black Dynamite Apr 25 '17 at 02:17 — Black Dynamite, Apr 25 '17 at 02:17
@FlexFiend here you go http://breachattack.com – Neil McGuigan Apr 25 '17 at 02:39 — Neil McGuigan, Apr 25 '17 at 02:39

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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If you are using Spring boot and Tomcat You should be able to accomplish this via Tomcat Configuration: http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current-SNAPSHOT/reference/htmlsingle/#how-to-enable-http-response-compression

Here is a similar POST Using GZIP compression with Spring Boot/MVC/JavaConfig with RESTful

It's as simple as follows:

server.compression.enabled=true
server.compression.mime-types=application/xml

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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answered Feb 17 '15 at 08:03

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It should be noted that this feature is NOT yet released (`1.2.2.RELEASE` will contain it). – membersound Feb 17 '15 at 08:30
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Additionally, Spring MVC is [scheduled to add *automatic* gzip encoding handling to the `DispatcherServlet`](https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-11714) in 4.2. – chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic- Feb 17 '15 at 08:50
@Membersound How to do it on having WildFly ? – Tomasz Waszczyk Jan 12 '16 at 08:19
@TomaszWaszczyk-PantaRhei you should ask a separate question on this. But I'm pretty sure the `server.tomcat.*` properties can't be used here. – membersound Jan 12 '16 at 11:23
My Spring Boot does not use the embedded Tomcat container and I have to deploy the WAR of my application to an existing Tomcat server instance. How do I enable gzip compression in this case? Do I need to implement a gzip filter specifically? – Web User Jan 16 '17 at 08:36

How to enable GZIP for RestController?

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