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Roberto
Roberto

Reputation: 1395

Response from spring-boot application in JSON format instead xml?

There is spring-boot application(web+jpa) So, I have controller:

@RestController
public class CustomerController {
    @Autowired
    private CustomerService customerService;

@RequestMapping(value = "/customers", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public @ResponseBody List<Customer> findAllCustomers() {
    return customerService.findAllCustomers();
}

@RequestMapping(value = "/customers", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public void addCustomer(@RequestBody Customer customer) {
    customerService.addCustomer(customer);
}

Model:

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

@Entity
@Table(name="customer")
@XmlRootElement(name="customer")
public class Customer{
    @Id
    private String id;
    private String name;

    public Customer(String id, String name) {
        this.id = id;
        this.name = name;
    }

    public Customer() {
    }

    public String getId() {
        return id;
    }

    @XmlElement
    public void setId(String id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    @XmlElement
    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
}

And service layer for bind jpa and rest.

When I do request: 

<customer>
    <id>first</id>
    <name>first name of metric</name>
</customer>

it's okey, customer added in database, but, when I try to get all customers, the response in json format, but I expected xml. How to fix it issue?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 760

Answers (3)

Roberto
Roberto

Reputation: 1395

Solved by adding

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
    </dependency>

Upvotes: 0

Alexander Petrov
Alexander Petrov

Reputation: 991

I think that you use wrong accept type when you invoke rest method.

@ResponseBody will automatically serialize the return value according to the external client's capabilities and the libraries available on the classpath. If Jackson is available on the classpath and the client has indicated that they can accept JSON, the return value will be automatically sent as JSON. If the JRE is 1.7 or higher (which means that JAXB is included with the JRE) and the client has indicated that they can accept XML, the return value will be automatically sent as XML.

Upvotes: 1

Alien
Alien

Reputation: 15878

Mark the controller method as producing application/xml responses (produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE).

Upvotes: 1

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