Spring MVC multipart response

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Spring MVC multipart response

I am trying to write a full multi-page stream, on the client side, sending a multi-page request using Spring restTemplate, and on the server side it automatically resolves different parts of objects (I use JAXB to marshal objects) and send the response back to multipart.

I managed to implement almost the entire stream, but I can not send a multi-part response with jaxb objects from the Spring controller.

Here is the contorller code:

@RequestMapping(value="/putuser",method=RequestMethod.POST)
@ResponseBody
public MultiValueMap<String, Object> getUser(@RequestBody User user) throws IOException, JAXBException {
    }
    user.setName("new");
    MultiValueMap<String, Object> form = new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, Object>();  
    form.add("user", user);
    form.add("file", new FileSystemResource("/tmp/1.1")); 
    return form;
}

This is the exception I get on the server side:

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource cannot be cast to java.lang.String
    at org.springframework.http.converter.FormHttpMessageConverter.writeForm(FormHttpMessageConverter.java:233)
    at org.springframework.http.converter.FormHttpMessageConverter.write(FormHttpMessageConverter.java:197)
    at org.springframework.http.converter.FormHttpMessageConverter.write(FormHttpMessageConverter.java:73)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor.writeWithMessageConverters(AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor.java:148)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor.writeWithMessageConverters(AbstractMessageConverterMethodProcessor.java:90)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.handleReturnValue(RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.java:189)
    at org.springframework.web.method.support.HandlerMethodReturnValueHandlerComposite.handleReturnValue(HandlerMethodReturnValueHandlerComposite.java:69)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:122)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandleMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:746)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:687)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:80)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:925)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:856)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:915)

It seems like Spring is trying to convert every part in the response to String instead of the correct content type (file / xml etc /) I tried updating the spring.xml file as follows:

<mvc:annotation-driven>
    <mvc:message-converters register-defaults="true">
       <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.FormHttpMessageConverter">
                <property name="partConverters">
                    <list>
                        <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter" />
                        <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter" />
                        <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.ResourceHttpMessageConverter" />
                        <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.xml.Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter" />
                    </list>
                </property>
        </bean>
   </mvc:message-converters>
</mvc:annotation-driven>