@RestController
    @RequestMapping("/api")
    public class PwsResource {
        @RequestMapping(value = "/import-data", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
        public ResponseEntity importData() throws URISyntaxException, IOException {
....
            if (!path.isEmpty()) {
                importService.importData(path);
                return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.OK);
            } else {
                return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.NO_CONTENT);
            }
        }

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {

        $('#import').click(function (event) {
            $.ajax({
                url: 'api/import-data',
                data: '',
                type: "GET",

                beforeSend: function (xhr) {
                    xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
                    xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
                },
                success: function () {
                    console.log("done")
                }
            });
        });
    });
</script>

server:
    port: 3000

spring:
    profiles:
        active: live
    datasource:
        url: jdbc:mysql:/server:3306/project?autoReconnect=true
        username: root
        password: password

server:
    contextPath: /project
    session-timeout: 28800
spring:
    profiles:
        active: live
    view:
        prefix: /ui/
        suffix: .html
    mvc:
        locale: en_UK
        date-format: yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ
    jmx:
        enabled: false
    datasource:
        dataSourceClassName: com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource
        url: jdbc:mysql://server:3306/project?autoReconnect=true
        username: root
        password: password
        cachePrepStmts: true