Serve image/file in json

Question

assume that I have class like this

public class Entity {
    private String name;
    private File file;

    // Getters & setters
}

is it possible to return object of this class as json? I'm using jax-rs

This question is already answered on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34485420/how-do-you-put-an-image-file-in-a-json-object/34485762 — attacomsian, Jun 09 '18 at 14:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 11 '18 at 13:22

Yes, you can.

If you're using JAX-RS, then I expect you to know the basic of creating a REST-ful Web Services ya.

You can use @Produces("application/json") annotation in one of your endpoint. Use that endpoint to return an Entity, and it will be automatically converted as JSON.

Serve image/file in json

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