package com.devcru.journowatch.api.controllers;

import com.devcru.journowatch.api.daoimpl.UserDaoImpl;
import com.devcru.journowatch.api.objects.User;
import freemarker.core.ParseException;
import freemarker.template.Configuration;
import freemarker.template.MalformedTemplateNameException;
import freemarker.template.TemplateException;
import freemarker.template.TemplateNotFoundException;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;

import static org.springframework.ui.freemarker.FreeMarkerTemplateUtils.processTemplateIntoString;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Created by Monitored on 12/25/2015.
 * User Controller Class
 */

@Controller
@RequestMapping(value = "/*")
public class MainController {

	@Autowired
    private UserDaoImpl userDao;
	
	@Autowired
	private Configuration freemarkerConfiguration;
	
	/* 
	 * Sample landing page thing
	 * Note that this is not REST by any means
	 * This is a full-fledged MVC application
	 */
	@RequestMapping(value="/test", method=RequestMethod.GET)
	public @ResponseBody
	String getIndexView() throws TemplateNotFoundException, MalformedTemplateNameException, ParseException, IOException, TemplateException {
		System.out.println("MainController > test hit! Returning data...");
		
		User user = new User();
		user.setUsername("regular");
		user.setPassword("password");
		
		return processTemplateIntoString(freemarkerConfiguration.getTemplate("sample.ftl"), new Object());
	}
	
	@RequestMapping(value="/user", method=RequestMethod.POST)
	@ResponseBody
	public String createUser(User user) {
		
		System.out.println("user.getUsername: " + user.getUsername());
		System.out.println("user.getEmail: " + user.getEmail());
		System.out.println("user.getFirstName: " + user.getFirstName());
		System.out.println("user.getLastName: " + user.getLastName());
		System.out.println("user.getRole: " + user.getRole());
		System.out.println("user.getPassword: " + user.getPassword());
		
		boolean status = userDao.addUser(user);
		
		return status + "";
	}

    @RequestMapping(value="/login", method=RequestMethod.POST)
    public static Object logTheFuckIn(User user) {

        // This is where we would call in a UserDAOImpl and execute the login method

        return null;
    }

}

package com.devcru.journowatch.api.controllers;

import com.devcru.journowatch.api.daoimpl.UserDaoImpl;
import com.devcru.journowatch.api.objects.User;
import freemarker.core.ParseException;
import freemarker.template.Configuration;
import freemarker.template.MalformedTemplateNameException;
import freemarker.template.TemplateException;
import freemarker.template.TemplateNotFoundException;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;

import static org.springframework.ui.freemarker.FreeMarkerTemplateUtils.processTemplateIntoString;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Created by Monitored on 12/25/2015.
 * User Controller Class
 */

@Controller
@RequestMapping(value = "/*")
public class MainController {

	@Autowired
    private UserDaoImpl userDao;
	
	@Autowired
	private Configuration freemarkerConfiguration;
	
	/* 
	 * Sample landing page thing
	 * Note that this is not REST by any means
	 * This is a full-fledged MVC application
	 */
	@RequestMapping(value="/test", method=RequestMethod.GET)
	public @ResponseBody
	String getIndexView() throws TemplateNotFoundException, MalformedTemplateNameException, ParseException, IOException, TemplateException {
		System.out.println("MainController > test hit! Returning data...");
		
		User user = new User();
		user.setUsername("regular");
		user.setPassword("password");
		
		return processTemplateIntoString(freemarkerConfiguration.getTemplate("sample.ftl"), new Object());
	}
	
	@RequestMapping(value="/user", method=RequestMethod.POST)
	@ResponseBody
	public String createUser(User user) {
		
		System.out.println("user.getUsername: " + user.getUsername());
		System.out.println("user.getEmail: " + user.getEmail());
		System.out.println("user.getFirstName: " + user.getFirstName());
		System.out.println("user.getLastName: " + user.getLastName());
		System.out.println("user.getRole: " + user.getRole());
		System.out.println("user.getPassword: " + user.getPassword());
		
		boolean status = userDao.addUser(user);
		
		return status + "";
	}
	
	@RequestMapping(value="/user", method=RequestMethod.GET)
	@ResponseBody
	public User createUser() {
		
		// DEBUG
		User user = new User();
		user.setUsername("regular");
		user.setEmail("rs@email.com");
		user.setFirstName("regular");
		user.setLastName("sage");
		user.setRole("USER_ROLE");
		user.setPassword("password");
		
		System.out.println("user.getUsername: " + user.getUsername());
		System.out.println("user.getEmail: " + user.getEmail());
		System.out.println("user.getFirstName: " + user.getFirstName());
		System.out.println("user.getLastName: " + user.getLastName());
		System.out.println("user.getRole: " + user.getRole());
		System.out.println("user.getPassword: " + user.getPassword());
		
		return user;
	}

    @RequestMapping(value="/login", method=RequestMethod.POST)
    public static Object logTheFuckIn(User user) {

        // This is where we would call in a UserDAOImpl and execute the login method

        return null;
    }

}

Add GET /user endpoint for debugging