Beyond the @Produces annotation, how does Jersey (JAX-RS) know to treat a POJO as a specific mime ty
- by hal10001
I see a lot of examples for Jersey that look something like this:
public class ItemResource {
@GET
@Path("/items")
@Produces({"text/xml", "application/json"})
public List<Item> getItems() {
List<Item> items = new ArrayList<Item>();
Item item = new Item();
item.setItemName("My Item Name!");
items.add(item);
return items;
}
}
But then I have trouble dissecting Item, and how Jersey knows how to translate an Item to either XML or JSON. I've seen very basic examples that just return a String of constructed HTML or XML, which makes more sense to me, but I'm missing the next step. I looked at the samples, and one of them stood out (the json-from-jaxb sample), since the object was marked with these types of annotations:
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(name = "", propOrder = {
"flight"
})
@XmlRootElement(name = "flights")
I'm looking for tutorials that cover this "translation" step-by-step, or an explanation here of how to translate a POJO to output as a specific mime type. Thanks!
