我无法重现您的结果,但也许通过澄清一些事情可以更接近您的问题.
如果我在我的机器上执行你的curl命令(带有一个额外的-v标志来获取标题),我会收到一个客户端错误,确切地说是409 Conflict.
curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{}' http://localhost:8080/api/hotels
Note: Unnecessary use of -X or --request, POST is already inferred.
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
> POST /api/hotels HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:8080
> User-Agent: curl/7.47.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: application/json
> Content-Length: 2
>
* upload completely sent off: 2 out of 2 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict
< Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 12:29:45 GMT
< Content-Type: application/hal+json;charset=UTF-8
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
{"