I'm not quite sure what you mean in your final question. Can you clarify?
Btw, set this annotation on the handler method:
Produces("application/xml")
Which sets the Content-type of the response.
On Dec 30, 2010, at 7:45 PM, gregcjames_at_comcast.net wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Thanks very much for your Response (couldn't resist).
>
> My Customer is a JAXB object; my RESTful GET methods just return "Customer" objects and they show up as XML on my iOS client perfectly.
>
> I'm still pretty shaky on the usage of the Response. I tried this:
>
> return Response.ok(customer).type("application/xml").build();
>
> Looks like I'm getting the serialized *customer* object in the response on my iOS client now. What I am doing wrong that is preventing the response from being encoded to XML?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Greg
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Petrovic" <mspetrovic_at_gmail.com>
> To: "<jamesgc21_at_comcast.net>" <jamesgc21_at_comcast.net>
> Cc: users_at_jersey.java.net
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 7:39:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Jersey] Problems Reading javax.ws.rs.core.Response from POST
>
> Jersey can serialize a JAXB object with no additional programming on your part. So if *customer* is a JAXB object, then setting it as the entity on the Response is all you need to do:
>
> return ...entity(customer).build();
>
> If Customer is not a JAXB object, then you need to supply code to translate it into one, or just build the XML representation of Customer manually into a String and set that as the Response entity().
>
> On Dec 30, 2010, at 6:14 PM, <jamesgc21_at_comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > I just started implementing REST with JAX-RS this week. Working
> > through the examples in the RESTful Java text by Burke.
> >
> > Successful in querying data from a PostgreSQL database using GET
> > methods from an iOS client. Have also been able to create new records
> > using POST, but can't seem to figure out how to read/parse the
> > javax.ws.rs.core.Response from my POST method. Trying to read the
> > response to verify if the POST (create) was successful.
> >
> > @POST
> > @Consumes("application/xml")
> > public Response createCustomer(Customer customer) {
> > //code here to create a new Customer record...(this part is
> > working)
> > return Response.created(URI.create("/customers/" +
> > customer.getId())).build();
> > }
> >
> > When I read the response in my iOS client...nothing shows up. Assuming
> > that the return value is XML. Do I need to change the return
> > type...aka build/return an actual XML String?
> >
> > Any advice would be appreciated.