RestController和Controller的区别

官方文档：

A convenience annotation that is itself annotated with @Controller and @ResponseBody.

意思是：
@RestController注解相当于@ResponseBody ＋ @Controller合在一起的作用。

1)如果只是使用@RestController注解Controller，则Controller中的方法无法返回jsp页面，配置的视图解析器InternalResourceViewResolver则不起作用，返回的内容就是Return 里的内容（String/JSON）。
例如：本来应该到success.jsp页面的，则其显示success.

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@RequestMapping ( value = "/test" ) public String test ( HttpServletRequest request , HttpServletResponse response ) {       return "success" ; }

2))如果使用@RestController注解Controller，需要返回到指定页面，则需要配置视图解析器InternalResourceViewResolver，可以利用ModelAndView返回试图。

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@RequestMapping ( value = "/test" ) public String test ( HttpServletRequest request , HttpServletResponse response ) {       return newModelAndView ( "success" ) ; }

3)如果使用@Controller注解Controller，如果需要返回JSON，XML或自定义mediaType内容到页面，则需要在对应的方法上加上@ResponseBody注解。

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@ResponseBody @RequestMapping ( value = "/test" ) public String test ( HttpServletRequest request , HttpServletResponse response ) {       return "success" ; }

最后给大家贴上Spring4.x的RestController和Controller源码，供大家学习和理解。

RestController源码：

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/* * Copyright 2002-2014 the original author or authors. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */   package org . springframework . web . bind . annotation ;   import java . lang . annotation . Documented ; import java . lang . annotation . ElementType ; import java . lang . annotation . Retention ; import java . lang . annotation . RetentionPolicy ; import java . lang . annotation . Target ;   import org . springframework . stereotype . Controller ;   /** * A convenience annotation that is itself annotated with {@link Controller @Controller} * and {@link ResponseBody @ResponseBody}. * <p> * Types that carry this annotation are treated as controllers where * {@link RequestMapping @RequestMapping} methods assume * {@link ResponseBody @ResponseBody} semantics by default. * * @author Rossen Stoyanchev * @author Sam Brannen * @since 4.0 */ @Target ( ElementType . TYPE ) @Retention ( RetentionPolicy . RUNTIME ) @Documented @Controller @ResponseBody public @interface RestController {   /** * The value may indicate a suggestion for a logical component name, * to be turned into a Spring bean in case of an autodetected component. * @return the suggested component name, if any * @since 4.0.1 */ String value ( ) default "" ;   }

Controller源码：

Controller

Java

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/* * Copyright 2002-2007 the original author or authors. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */   package org . springframework . stereotype ;   import java . lang . annotation . Documented ; import java . lang . annotation . ElementType ; import java . lang . annotation . Retention ; import java . lang . annotation . RetentionPolicy ; import java . lang . annotation . Target ;   /** * Indicates that an annotated class is a "Controller" (e.g. a web controller). * * <p>This annotation serves as a specialization of {@link Component @Component}, * allowing for implementation classes to be autodetected through classpath scanning. * It is typically used in combination with annotated handler methods based on the * {@link org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping} annotation. * * @author Arjen Poutsma * @author Juergen Hoeller * @since 2.5 * @see Component * @see org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping * @see org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner */ @Target ( { ElementType . TYPE } ) @Retention ( RetentionPolicy . RUNTIME ) @Documented @Component public @interface Controller {   /** * The value may indicate a suggestion for a logical component name, * to be turned into a Spring bean in case of an autodetected component. * @return the suggested component name, if any */ String value ( ) default "" ;   }