I'm prototyping some use of JAX-RS and JSON. I'm trying to use Jersey and
Jackson (
http://jackson.codehaus.org/). I'd like to bring over a particular
issue I'm facing with this that I brought up on the Jackson user mailing
list:
http://archive.codehaus.org/lists/org.codehaus.jackson.user/msg/b20ce4ed0904061253w38bcaa0crccd0fff3803f3390@mail.gmail.com
To summarize: Jackson has a JAX-RS Provider implementation. However, since
Jackson can convert POJOs to JSON, it essentially registers itself to handle
any object where the media-type is application/json. What I want, however,
is the flexibility to still return or process JSON through alternate means
when it's appropriate: as StreamingOutput, as a String, or as some other
libraries JSON object model.
What's the best way to acheive this? In the post I linked to, I speculated
about some sort of delgating provider implementation. Is there some other
mechanism in JSR-311? Or in Jersey?
(As a side note: I'm currently using the jersey-spring integration to wire
things together and to register the Jackson provider, but I'm open to
alternate techniques if it solves this problem).
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Stephen Duncan Jr
www.stephenduncanjr.com