How to fix DefaultHandlerExceptionResolver : Resolved exception caused by Handler execution: org.springframework.web.HttpMediaTypeNotAcceptableException in Spring Boot ?

Solution works for : Spring Boot 1.4 and Spring 4.3.4 but it should works with older  and newer versions too.

STORY:

So you are learning Spring Boot and you learn quickly that in order to get  json response you simply need to write method in  Controller with @RestController annotation  (as shown on orange example in the end of this post).
However, if you try produce xml output instead (as shown on blue example) ,then ...unfortunately .. you will that Spring will display error:

Whitelabel Error Page
This application has no explicit mapping for /error, so you are seeing this as a fallback.
Tue Oct 11 11:23:37 GMT 2016
There was an unexpected error (type=Not Acceptable, status=406).
Could not find acceptable representation

And in logs you will see:

2016-12-13 11:23:37.760  WARN 7456 --- [io-16801-exec-5] .w.s.m.s.DefaultHandlerExceptionResolver : Resolved exception caused by Handler execution: org.springframework.web.HttpMediaTypeNotAcceptableException: Could not find acceptable representation

If you see this error ,it means you forgot to add : jackson-dataformat-xml dependency to your project, so imply add this dependency to your gradle (or maven) .
For example for  Gradle:

compile('com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml')

refresh your dependencies and re-run application and it should works :)

This an example:

@RestController
public class JsonController {

private static final Logger LOGGER = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(JsonController.class);

@GetMapping("/json")
public CuteDomainObject getCuteDomainObjectAsJson() {
CuteDomainObject cuteDomainObject = new CuteDomainObject("Name", new Random().nextInt(32));
LOGGER.info("Getting Cute Domain Object with data: " + cuteDomainObject.toString());
return cuteDomainObject;
}

@GetMapping(value = "/xml", produces = { "application/xml", "text/xml"})
public CuteDomainObject getCuteDomainObjectAsXml() {
CuteDomainObject cuteDomainObject = new CuteDomainObject("Name", new Random().nextInt(32));
LOGGER.info("Getting Cute Domain Object with data: " + cuteDomainObject.toString());
return cuteDomainObject;
}

}

Source: http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/howto-spring-mvc.html#howto-write-an-xml-rest-service