It seems that com.sun.jersey.freemarker.FreemarkerViewProcessor
(jersey-freemarker contrib module)may have a role to play. But again I
am not sure how to create or lookup an instance of this class. Thanks
for any help on this.
On 12/19/2011 12:40 PM, Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>
> I think I see how I need to proceed but I have some questions inline
> below....
>
> Here is what I think I need to do:
>
> * Define a MessageBodyWriter for the response type returned by by
> resource methods like below...
>
>
> @Produces("text/html")
> @Provider
> public class HTMLMessageBodyWriter implements
> MessageBodyWriter<MyResponseType> {
>
> public boolean isWriteable(Class<?> type, Type type1,
> Annotation[] antns, MediaType mt) {
> return MyResponseType.class.isAssignableFrom(type);
> }
>
> public long getSize(MyResponseType t, Class<?> type, Type
> type1, Annotation[] antns, MediaType mt) {
> return -1;
> }
>
> public void writeTo(MyResponseType response, Class<?> type,
> Type type1, Annotation[] antns, MediaType mt, MultivaluedMap<String,
> Object> mm, OutputStream out) throws IOException,
> WebApplicationException {
> Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(out);
> HTMLFormatter htmlFormatter = new HTMLMarshaller();
> htmlFormatter.marshall( response, writer);
> writer.close();
> out.flush();
> }
>
> }
>
> * Define an HTMLFormatter class to marshall the response to custom
> formatted HTML
>
> * Use jersey-freemarker to use freemarker templates to generate
> the HTML as needed
>
>
> What I cannot determine is how to best get the freemarker template
> within my HTMLFormatter class. Does the
> com.sun.jersey.api.view.Viewable
> <http://jersey.java.net/nonav/apidocs/latest/jersey/com/sun/jersey/api/view/Viewable.html>class
> have a role to play? Can any one tell me if I am on the right track
> and how bets to get the freemarker template? Thanks.
>
>
>
> On 12/19/2011 09:13 AM, Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>> Hi ManiKanta,
>>
>> Thank you for introducing me to the Viewable
>> <http://jersey.java.net/nonav/apidocs/1.1.0-ea/jersey/com/sun/jersey/api/view/Viewable.html>
>> class in jersey. It will be useful in my solution. However, your post
>> does not seem to address the need I have as follows:
>>
>> * Keep a single set of resource methods that return XML response
>> * Allow XML response to be algorithmically mapped to HTML using
>> some custom mapping class(es)
>>
>> I had mentioned that my current resource methods somehow support
>> "application/json" automatically using the
>> com.sun.jersey:jersey-json:jar:1.10:compile dependency even though
>> the method just returns an XML response. Clearly the jersey-json adds
>> support for marshalling/unmarshalling json from XML. I want to do
>> similar by marshalling responses to HTML.
>>
>> I am just not familiar enough with jersey API and framework as to how
>> to do that. Given more time I will figure it out but I was hoping
>> that someone could provide high level steps of how to do that. Thank
>> in advance.
>>
>> On 12/19/2011 02:02 AM, ManiKanta G wrote:
>>> you could do that using Viewable
>>> <http://jersey.java.net/nonav/apidocs/1.1.0-ea/jersey/com/sun/jersey/api/view/Viewable.html> we
>>> are serving the html response for html mime type by having a generic
>>> resource method in super class
>>>
>>> see
>>> http://blog.docuverse.com/2009/08/04/using-jsp-with-jersey-jax-rs-implementation/
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3361877/jersey-viewable-with-status-code
>>>
>>>
>>> ManiKanta G
>>> twitter.com/ManiKantaG <http://twitter.com/ManiKantaG>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Farrukh Najmi
>>> <farrukh_at_wellfleetsoftware.com
>>> <mailto:farrukh_at_wellfleetsoftware.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> My jersey based REST endpoint serves resources in their native
>>> XML format when default or in JSON format when application/json
>>> mediatype is specified. Things are working pretty well.
>>>
>>> I would like to add a simple Web interface for human access to
>>> my REST endpoint and was thinking that I could add support for
>>> mediatype text/html in my endpoints resource methods via @Produces.
>>>
>>> What I am not sure of what is the best way to do this in jersey.
>>> Jersey support JSON format without any help from my code so I
>>> assume there is a global filter somewhere to transform XML to
>>> JSON. I am looking to do similar with HTML. Thanks for any
>>> guidance on this.
>>>
>>
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Regards,
Farrukh Najmi
Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com