The problem was because my data was Base64 encoded in XML case and I
needed to do a decode prior to returning it.
Thanks to Marc for helping me find this problem.
Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>
> I have a resource methid as follows which needs ti return an arbitrary
> content. I know the actual media type in the server for the arbitrary
> content. I implemented the method as follows:
>
>
> @Path("/repositoryItems/{id}")
> @GET
> public Response getRepositoryItem(@PathParam("id") String id)
> throws JAXBException, IOException {
> String mimeType = "application/octet-stream";
> DataHandler ri = ...
> resp = ri.getInputStream());
> return
> Response.status(200).type(mimeType).entity(resp).build();//"OK"
> }
>
> Now when I test with an id that returns an XML documents (media type =
> "text/xml") the response looks like binary data:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
> Content-Type: text/xml
> Content-Length: 9392
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:53:55 GMT
>
> PD94bWwg.....
>
> I hax expected something like:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
> Content-Type: text/xml
> Content-Length: 9392
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:53:55 GMT
>
> <someXmlTag>
> </someXmlTag>
>
>
> What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
>
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Regards,
Farrukh Najmi
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