Hi,
Please excuse the silly example, but I'm wondering whether it's possible to
have JAXB annotated objects that are optional with Jersey/JAX-RS.
In the example below I have an animal object which I bind to based on the
XML present in the body of the POST request.
@POST
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
@Path("/{name}")
public Response getSummary(Animal animal,
@PathParam(MessageConstants.NAME_PARAM) final String name
@DefaultValue("none")
However, what I want to do is to be able to cope with the body not
containing an XML block. In this case I don't want it to attempt to find a
reader for
Animal, it would be great if I could just have it construct an empty Animal
instance using the default constructor. At present this fails with:
A message body reader for Java type, class com.test.Animal and MIME media
type, application/octet-stream, was not found
Is there a way to do this?
Many thanks,
Jon.