How correctly produce JSON by RESTful web service?
You can annotate your bean with jaxb annotations.
@XmlRootElement
public class MyJaxbBean {
public String name;
public int age;
public MyJaxbBean() {} // JAXB needs this
public MyJaxbBean(String name, int age) {
this.name = name;
this.age = age;
}
}
and then your method would look like this:
@GET @Produces("application/json")
public MyJaxbBean getMyBean() {
return new MyJaxbBean("Agamemnon", 32);
}
There is a chapter in the latest documentation that deals with this:
https://jersey.java.net/documentation/latest/user-guide.html#json
@POST
@Path ("Employee")
@Consumes("application/json")
@Produces("application/json")
public JSONObject postEmployee(JSONObject jsonObject)throws Exception{
return jsonObject;
}
You could use a package like org.json http://www.json.org/java/
Because you will need to use JSONObjects more often.
There you can easily create JSONObjects and put some values in it:
JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
JSONArray array=new JSONArray();
array.put("1");
array.put("2");
json.put("friends", array);
System.out.println(json.toString(2));
{"friends": [
"1",
"2"
]}
edit This has the advantage that you can build your responses in different layers and return them as an object
@GET
@Path("/friends")
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public String getFriends() {
// here you can return any bean also it will automatically convert into json
return "{'friends': ['Michael', 'Tom', 'Daniel', 'John', 'Nick']}";
}