How to read Headers in Spring Boot Controller

Suppose we have a controller and want to bind the Headers to a variable, then we can do the following

 
    @RequestHeader(value = "Accept-Language", defaultValue = "en") String locale

This will bind the Header Accept-Language, to the variable locale.

• value="" It defines the name of the header to bind to the variable
• required= boolean It tells if this is mandatory header or not. default value is true
• defaultValue ="" It can be used to give a default value if the header is not present.

Similarly you can bind Custom Headers like shown below

     // String
    @RequestHeader(value = "X-My-String-Header", defaultValue = "Hello World") String h1
     // Long
    @RequestHeader(value = "X-My-Long-Header", defaultValue = 212) Long h2