From 13403d51e589a3612f8359c8f3e4d2c21947af81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rossen Stoyanchev <rstoyanchev@pivotal.io>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 17:24:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Improve error message for missing request body

Issue: SPR-12888
---
 .../method/annotation/RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.java  | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/mvc/method/annotation/RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.java b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/mvc/method/annotation/RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.java
index c553bb7dbd..20d381dc39 100644
--- a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/mvc/method/annotation/RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.java
+++ b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/mvc/method/annotation/RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor.java
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ public class RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor extends AbstractMessageConverter
 		Object arg = readWithMessageConverters(inputMessage, methodParam, paramType);
 		if (arg == null) {
 			if (methodParam.getParameterAnnotation(RequestBody.class).required()) {
-				throw new HttpMessageNotReadableException("Required request body is missing: " + methodParam);
+				throw new HttpMessageNotReadableException("Required request body is missing: " +
+						methodParam.getMethod().toGenericString());
 			}
 		}