Points To Remember Add the following dependency to the gradle project. compile('com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.7.1-1') Read JSON in Filter and bind it to POJO class You can read the JSON inside a Filter class in SpringBoot by Create a BufferedReader object by reading request object. Create an ObjectMapper object. Read JSON from bufferedReader object and bind it to any POJO class. view plain copy to clipboard print ? package com.ekiras.test; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper; import javax.servlet.*; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; /** * @author ekansh * @since 26/3/16 */ public class MyFilter implements Filter { @Override public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException { // some init code } @Override public void doFilter(ServletReque