How to return JSON data from spring Controller using @ResponseBody

I was facing same issue. I did not put @ResponseBody since I was using @RestController. But still I was getting error because I did not put the getter/setter method for the Company class. So after putting the getter/setter my problem was resolved.

Add the below dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.5.0</version>
</dependency>

You also need to be sure that returned bean is not empty (and can be serialized by Jackson). In my particular case I tried to return an instance of an object without getters and setters and without any jackson annotation and with fields equals to null. I got following message:

com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException:
    No serializer found for class com.foo.bar.Baz and no properties discovered to create BeanSerializer (to avoid exception, disable SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS) )