On Apr 7, 2009, at 4:22 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>
> This is a known issue in JAX-RS.
>
> I think there is a way to fix this in Jersey by sorting the message
> body readers/writers such that readers/writers with the most
> specific generic type occur first and thus the isWriteable/
> isReadable if the more specifc generic types are called first. (Such
> general sorting is non-trivial for complex types, and there may be
> more than one solution, but for Class types it is easy).
>
Note that sorting of providers based on closeness of generic type is
required by JAX-RS 1.1, see step 4 of section 4.2.2 in the 1.1 draft
spec (
https://jsr311.dev.java.net/drafts/spec20090313.pdf). This
corresponds to change C004 in the chnagelog (
https://jsr311.dev.java.net/drafts/changelog.1.1.html
).
Marc.
> Thus readers/writers for String or StreamOutput would occur before
> Object (which is what the Jackson JSON readers/writers support).
>
> Could you log an issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul.
>
> On Apr 7, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Stephen Duncan Jr wrote:
>
>> 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).
>>
>> --
>> Stephen Duncan Jr
>> www.stephenduncanjr.com
>