Rest Template: Could Not Extract Response – No Suitable HttpMessageConverter Found for Response Type [X] and Content Type

When invoking a web service using RestTemplate:-

restTemplate.getForObject("http://www.server.com/api", Bean[].class));
… the following exception occurs:-

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.web.client.RestClientException:
Could not extract response: no suitable HttpMessageConverter found for response
type [class [LMyBean;] and content type [application/json;charset=UTF-8]
at org.springframework.web.client.HttpMessageConverterExtractor.extractData(HttpMessageConverterExtractor.java:1110)
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.doExecute(RestTemplate.java:1572)
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.execute(RestTemplate.java:1530)
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.getForObject(RestTemplate.java:1237)



SOLUTION

If the content type is JSON, add the following dependency:-

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.6.0</version>
</dependency>