Jersey can produce List but cannot Response.ok(List).build()?

Question

Jersey 1.6 can produce:

@Path("/stock")
public class StockResource {
    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    public List<Stock> get() {
        Stock stock = new Stock();
        stock.setQuantity(3);
        return Lists.newArrayList(stock);
    }
}

But cannot do the same with:

@Path("/stock")
public class StockResource {
    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    public Response get() {
        Stock stock = new Stock();
        stock.setQuantity(3);
        return Response.ok(Lists.newArrayList(stock)).build();
    }
}

Giving the error: A message body writer for Java class java.util.ArrayList, and Java type class java.util.ArrayList, and MIME media type application/json was not found

This prevent the use of HTTP status code and headers.

Here is the best solution [enter link description here][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27341788/jersey-clientresponse-getentity-of-generic-type — user3617915, Jul 29 '15 at 19:44

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '11 at 12:26

25

It is possible to embed a List<T> in a Response the following way:

@Path("/stock")
public class StockResource {
    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    public Response get() {
        Stock stock = new Stock();
        stock.setQuantity(3);

        GenericEntity<List<Stock>> entity = 
            new GenericEntity<List<Stock>>(Lists.newArrayList(stock)) {};
        return Response.ok(entity).build();
    }
}

The client have to use the following lines to get the List<T>:

public List<Stock> getStockList() {
    WebResource resource = Client.create().resource(server.uri());
    ClientResponse clientResponse =
        resource.path("stock")
        .type(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
        .get(ClientResponse.class);
    return clientResponse.getEntity(new GenericType<List<Stock>>() {
    });
}

answered May 21 '11 at 12:26

yves amsellem

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there is a small catch in this solution is that you need guava – Necronet Nov 16 '12 at 17:25
@Necronet: Guava is not required for the server-side solution provided above, correct? – Nitax Sep 11 '15 at 21:12
@Nitax `Lists.newArrayList` is from Guava. You can easily replace it with `new ArrayList` and `add` in pure Java. – yves amsellem Sep 14 '15 at 09:31
Ah yes, I missed that. Good solution either way. – Nitax Sep 16 '15 at 12:59

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 31 '11 at 22:02

For some reason the GenericType fix wasn't working from me. However, since type erasure is done for Collections but not for Arrays, this worked.

    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
    public Response getEvents(){
        List<Event> events = eventService.getAll();
        return Response.ok(events.toArray(new Event[events.size()])).build();
    }

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 20 '16 at 15:24

my solution for methods that use AsyncResponse

@GET
@Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON})
public void list(@Suspended
        final AsyncResponse asyncResponse) {
    asyncResponse.setTimeout(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    executorService.submit(() -> {
        List<Product> res = super.listProducts();
        Product[] arr = res.toArray(new Product[res.size()]);
        asyncResponse.resume(arr);
    });
}

Jersey can produce List but cannot Response.ok(List).build()?

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