Let me study this blog. It seems to answer my question:
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http://www.theserverlabs.com/blog/2009/01/12/rest-web-services-with-jaxb-jax-rs-and-sun-jersey/>
Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>
> I suspect this one has been discussed before but I did not find
> anything in archives...
>
> In me jersey server I want to expose the same resource in multiple
> output formats. The current thinking is that the format will be
> specified in the URL as a parameter rather than a path segment of the
> URL.
>
> Thus to get XML response the URL pattern would be:
>
> /search?queryId=foo&queryParams1=bar&format=text/xml
>
> and to get JSON response the URL pattern would be:
> /search?queryId=foo&queryParams1=bar&format=application/json
>
> This would require having two methods in the server with same @Path
> but different @Produces annotations:
>
> @Path("/search")
> @GET
> @Produces("text/xml")
> public Response searchXML() throws JAXBException {
> String resp = searchInternal();
> return Response.status(200).entity(resp).build();//"OK"
> }
>
> @Path("/search")
> @GET
> @Produces("application/json")
> public Response searchJSON() throws JAXBException {
> String resp = searchInternal();
> return Response.status(200).entity(resp).build();//"OK"
> }
>
>
> What I am not sure of is how to specify the "format" parameter for
> each method.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
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Farrukh
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