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What is Spring Boot internal mechanism for handling HTTP message conversion?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Spring uses HttpMessageConverters to serialize and deserialize HTTP request and response bodies.
Deep explanation
When a controller returns an object, Spring selects an appropriate HttpMessageConverter based on content type (JSON, XML, etc.). Jackson is default for JSON. This mechanism is used in both MVC and REST APIs.
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