On May 1, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Tatu Saloranta wrote:
> 2009/5/1 Felipe Gaścho <fgaucho_at_gmail.com>:
>> when I want to return Java primitive types, what is the best media
>> type ? or other response type ?
>>
>> like:
>>
>> @GET
>> @Produces( { MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN })
>> @Path("/count")
>> public String count() {
>> return Long.toString(userFacade.count());
>> }
>
> Text/plain seems good... but you might as well return plain old int or
> long from the method itself? Or are those not automatically converted
> yet?
>
No. JAX-RS does not define support for such non-String-based primitive
types. It is an open question to what exactly should be the string
format of such primitive types.
Paul.