Right, but care about MIME Types! To make the selection of the Provider work
correctly, @Consumes / @Provides is essential!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel.Bucek_at_Sun.COM [mailto:Pavel.Bucek_at_Sun.COM]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2010 16:11
> To: users_at_jersey.dev.java.net
> Subject: Re: [Jersey] RESTful WS: How to return something different
> than String?
>
> You can look at jersey-ejb [1] sample. There are two MessageBodyWriter
> implementations (MessageWriter and MessageListWriter).
>
> Basically all you need to do is annotate MessageBodyWriter descendant
> with @Provider annotation (and let jersey find it) and implements its
> methods. @Singleton and @Stateless annotations used in that sample are
> EJB related and you can ignore them).
>
>
> Regards,
> Pavel
>
> [1]
> https://jersey.dev.java.net/source/browse/jersey/trunk/jersey/samples/j
> ersey-ejb/
>
>
>
> Oscar Calderon wrote:
> > I was reading about this, but it's a little bit confuse for me, but i
> > understood that first, if i have an object that i want to serialize
> > (example, a Employee class) i have to build my EmployeeProvider , a
> > class that implements MessageBodyWriter<Employee> then implement the
> 3
> > methods. After that, i guess that i have to use that class in my
> > resource class. I've seen that the method must return a Response
> > object right? I've download Jersey sample applications, somebody
> knows
> > if one of that applications has a concrete example about how to use
> > MessageBodyWriter (building and using custom providers or using out
> of
> > the box providers)?
> >
> > El 2/24/2010 10:51 AM, Markus Karg escribió:
> >> Hello Oscar,
> >>
> >> they key to other return types are "MessageBodyWriters": Declare any
> >> typed
> >> you want, JAX-RS will handle them all. But not out of the box: In
> >> short, out
> >> of the box you will get Strings (returned als plain text) and JAXB
> >> Elements
> >> (returned as XML) (plus a bit more stuff like JSON and so on), and
> >> OutputStream. If you want to use "any" Object type or "any" kind of
> MIME
> >> entity, you need to register a "conversion" object (i. e.
> >> "MessageBodyWriter"). See here:
> >> http://java.sun.com/javaee/6/docs/tutorial/doc/gilik.html#gipze
> >>
> >> HTH
> >> Markus
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Oscar Calderon [mailto:oscar.kalderon_at_gmail.com]
> >>> Sent: Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2010 17:10
> >>> To: users_at_jersey.dev.java.net
> >>> Subject: [Jersey] RESTful WS: How to return something different
> than
> >>> String?
> >>>
> >>> Hi to all, i'm a newbie in RESTful web services. I've worked before
> >>> with
> >>> normal web services and i have a doubt about sending/receiving data
> >>> with
> >>> service. Somebody knows something like a guide to explain how to
> return
> >>> something different than a String from RESTful web service
> resource?
> >>> For
> >>> example return a stream, a list or something like that? That's
> because
> >>> i've developed some simple RESTful web services that returns only a
> >>> string, for example a XML string or JSON String, but i haven't
> found
> >>> documentation or something like "How to receive a list as
> parameter" or
> >>> "How to return a stream" or something like that.
> >>>
> >>> Somebody has an idea about some tutorial or documentation to learn
> >>> that?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Oscar Calderon
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>
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