passing a value from a html page using jQuery ajax in spring mvc

i'm trying to learn jQuery AJAX in spring MVC and i'm trying to pass a value from a view to a controller and print that value in console from the controller, i would like later learn how to change that value in my controller and then pass it to my view but right now i'm having a 400 Bad Request.

this is my controller methods

@RequestMapping(value = "formNormal", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String formNormal(Model model) {

        return "formNormal";
    }

    @RequestMapping(value = "formNormal", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public @ResponseBody String jsonMethod(@RequestBody String name) {

        String controllerVariable  =  name;
        System.out.println("controller variable value is  " + controllerVariable);

        return controllerVariable;
     }

and this is my page formNormal.html

<script src="http://ift.tt/KA8c68"></script>



   <script type="text/javascript">

        function doAjaxPost() 
        {
            // get the form values
            var name = $('#name').val();
            var json = {"name" : name};

            $.ajax(
            {
                type: "POST",
                url: "formNormal",
                data: JSON.stringify(json),
                cache: false,
                beforeSend: function(xhr) 
                            {
                                xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");  
                                xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");  
                            },
                success: function(response) 
                        {
                            alert(response);
                            $('#name').val('');
                        },
                error: function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) 
                       {
                            alert(xhr.status);
                            alert(xhr.responseText);
                            alert(thrownError);
                        }
            });
        }
        </script>
  <fieldset>
  <legend>Name in view</legend>


        Name in view:   <input type="text" name="name">

        <br>

        <input type="button" value="Add Users" onclick="doAjaxPost()">
  </fieldset>

 <br>

EDITED** i change the data to data: JSON.stringify(json), and i no longer have the 400 error, i change to the success block to:

`success: function(response) 
                        {

                            alert( "Name: "+response);
                            $('#name').val('');
                        },`

and it prints me [object Object] in the alert, and in my eclipse console the name variable value is {}